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12/14/2012

 
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Sandy Hook Elementary School                
    President Obama wiped away tears while making the announcement that 26 were shot and killed, 20 of them children, in Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut. He wept everyone’s tears, except those of the National Rifle Association, too busy planning how to “manage” this atrocity to weep, terrified that Obama’s mention of “meaningful action” may lead to its worst nightmare: Gun Control.
    Perhaps they need not worry; Connecticut’s Gov. Dan Malone spoke of 9/11 and made pious noises in church. CBS News had Dr. Jon LaPook advise parents how to soften the blow to their kids. On PBS News Hour three professors maintained that what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary is “rare,” and that schools are “safe,” suggesting that the solution lies in better security, ID checks, monitoring “troubled” people, and erecting “perimeters” around schools, like air borne troops in hostile territories. Unmentioned was a single word about gun control, the only honest solution.
    Politicians have thus far dared not even discuss gun control. The merest suggestion that gun purchasers should have to wait a day for background checks brings frenzied rants about the Second Amendment. Assault rifles that can fire off magazines of 100 bullets in seconds are not classified as machine guns, because machine guns cannot be legally possessed by private citizens. So a whole range of assault rifles designed to kill human beings as quickly as possible are deemed “sport” weaponry. As for “gun shows,” there are no rules and any attempt to impose them is met with foam-at-the-mouth NRA tirades.
    Will there now be a grass roots uprising against NRA madness, like the one happening in the economic war of rich against middle class? What with the cowardice of politicians, servile professorate babble, and head-in-the-sand docility of most everyone else, the only force that can prevail must come from the grass roots. But how much more innocent blood must be shed, how many more mass slaughters of innocents will it take?

r
12/15/2012 01:34:51 am

just think!?....if someone was there with a legal weapon it could have been stopped....maybe?...the mother had 3 legal guns and seemed to be a yuppie?.....heartbreaking and insane.

Martha
12/15/2012 11:46:26 pm

Legal gun-owners stopping killers with their own guns is a troubling scenario. Think back to the Colorado movie theater: If audience members there had had legal weapons, and had taken them out to try to shoot the gunman, who would know that they were not accomplices of the murderers? They would all have killed one another. Also think of, say, an African American man owning a gun, and drawing it to shoot a mad killer: it is not unlikely that he would be killed by a white legal gun-owner, assuming in our racist world that he was a criminal.

Martha
12/15/2012 11:47:14 pm

Thank you, Stuart. I am not optimistic about the outcome.


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    Author (Yuma, AZ, 1944)

    Being 90 years in this world,  with great kids,  great grandkids, great wives (two, one at a time) and great memories, I wonder why some people seem to have stopped loving the U.S.A.? I will wonder in print right here. If you wonder too, or can provide some answers, please comment.
                                   Stuart Hodes

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                   April, 2012.
        Photo by Ray Madrigal

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