Two bomb threats last week, now a horrible indiscriminant mass shooting. 32 dead. Preliminary diagnosis, disgruntled student out of control with escalating rage. Weapons? Two 9mm semiautomatic pistols. Maybe a bulletproof vest. Now we listen to weeks of explanations about why gun control is a bad idea. And we try to think up things to say about something about which there is nothing to say. And we feel edgy about the possibility that some other person on the edge of madness sees the news and decides to do the same thing [so we can listen to more explanations about why gun control is a bad idea].
It seems to me that about the only part of the Bill of Rights that is currently held sacred under this Administration is the Second Amendment: "… the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Update: I’m glad to see that others were as outraged with Dana Perino’s first response from the President as I was: "Dana Perino says the president was ‘horrified and his immediate reaction was one of deep concern for the families of the victims, the victims themselves, the students, the professors and all the people of Virginia who have dealt with this shocking incident.’ Perino said ‘The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed.’"
It’s just all so sad. The guns, the fighting, the dismantelling of our government. Sometimes all you can do is laugh, and then in the inbetween all you can do is cry and through it all just be angry.
Yeah, and it’s tempting to ignore it because progress is so slow bringing it out into clear air. But it’s finally moving, albeit painfully slowly…
I have a very different response than I did with Columbine. I don’t want to hear about it. This is going to keep happening periodically in our society until we do something about it, and we’re not doing anything about it. We just shake our heads and look sad and express horror, but we don’t do anything. I thought we’d do something after Columbine, that those students and their teacher had not died in vain. I’d like to think that this time, but I don’t. I don’t think this will change anything. It’s needless carnage, and we’re going to let it keep on happening.
That’s very true. How many school shootings in the last year? I can think of 3 in the last 6 months. It’s ridiculous that our “right to bear arms” has supplanted our right to “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”