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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNothing is enough. Columbine wasn't enough. This won't be enough.
Well, its nice to see people have things in perspective before the blood has dried.
http://michellemalkin.com/2012/07/20/movie-theater-shooting-in-aurora-co-12-dead-50-injured-suspect-in-custody/
Because, really, its all about them. And their pet issues. And the gnomes that scuttle about their frontal lobes.
I would like to recommend that, when an event like what happened in Aurora occurs, we all give ourselves a decent interval before wedging the bloodshed into the stifling cliches that pass for our current political dialogue. Maybe a day, maybe a week. Then, we can start arguing again about why its so goddamn easy in this country to outfit yourself to go to the movies as though you were coming ashore at Saipan. Then, we can start defending Rush Limbaugh, or excoriating HollyWeird. I just think its indecent to do it as soon as the sun comes up the next day.
Seriously, there isnt anything to say right now. Everything is diversion, distraction, and evasion of the simple fact that someone very much like the rest of us walked into a movie theater, opened fire, and killed a dozen or so more people just like the rest of us. James Holmes is the bell, tolling, tolling. Thats all he is right now. To assume anything else is to wrap yourself in trivia against the storm.
For we know in our hearts that nothing is going to be done. The only great movement toward gun control will continue to exist only in the voices that ring in the heads of people like Wayne LaPierre. The only serious talk about the inchoate rage and barely incipient violence that seems to be in the air around us will come from people who can't get themselves on television very much, because they don't have enough inchoate rage to make good guests of themselves. Nothing is enough. Columbine wasn't enough. This won't be enough.
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Aurora_Shooting#ixzz21BLwKk4g
BanTheGOP
(1,068 posts)Otherwise, they will keep on rubbing the 2nd Amendment (circa 1789) in our faces.
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Kingofalldems
(38,461 posts)gregoire
(192 posts)every time there's a mass shooting, doesn't it make you wonder?
hack89
(39,171 posts)they don't have a firearms dealer license.
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)9/11 wasn't enough for us to give up all our rights to privacy and limits on search and seizure.
What will be enough to convince Americans that this "freedom" thing has run it's course?