Words matter and so does access to violent weapons. So much garbage gets said in our political discourse in recent years. Today, a few things ring very true.
(1) A young man had access to an extremely efficient, deadly automatic weapon that allowed him to kill and maim numerous people in seconds.
(2) That young man shot a congresswoman who was one of only 2 remaining elected officials still in Congress who had been literally put in the crosshairs by Sarah Palin.
(3) The citizens of Arizona all have the right to carry a concealed weapon and that fact made none of them safer and saved zero lives at the Safeway store in Tucson.
(4) The young man who was responsible for this senseless violence seems to have been a very unstable individual who believed our government was our greatest enemy -- where do you think he'd get that idea?
There is a message in here for all of us. The more we stoke the flames of hatred against each other with outrageous claims about each others motives the more this will happen. It was wrong and completely outrageous for people to compare George W. Bush to Hitler and/or suggest he and Dick Cheney may have had some role in 911. It is at least as morally reprehensible for people to carry around signs with Obama depicted in clown faces or with a Hitler mustache.
Politics has more and more become all about totally scaring the crap out of people. It doesn't take much imagination to see that when 30% of our population can be convinced that Barack Obama is an illegal immigrant, radical Muslim that we may end up with some young folks who find a reason to take up arms against their government.
Truth is no one needs access to the kinds of weapons this young man brought to the Safeway in Tucson today. And, the irresponsible language and discourse of our politics will cause young impressionable people to do outrageous, unspeakable things.
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2 comments:
Should we take cars away from people also? I mean, they kill a bunch of people too! Ban cars, at least during winter when the roads are icy. We would be safer then. Oh and on saturday nights when the drunks are out, it's too hard to catch all of them, so we better not let anyone drive at all.
This guy was like a drunk driver. Don't let him ruin it for the rest of us. Guns are not only to protect us from each other, guns are to protect us from the government.
John: There is no reasonable argument that you need 30 rounds in a magazine to do anything that you want to legally do with your gun. None. Zip. Zero.
Since, quite literally no one is proposing to take away your gun, your comparison is moronic at best.
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