"Wolfgang" wrote...


It appears that people will forever find reasons to kill one
another......and it doesn't take much of a reason.


I'm beginning to wonder if the above would be more properly phrased:
"...must forever find reasons not to kill one another" as its pervasiveness
indicates (to me) that the strange desire to kill another human being may
very well be part of the human condition.

Out of this horrific event will of course come the knee-jerk responses. Some
on the left will call for some new way to ban guns. Some on the right will
call for enforcement of laws we already have -- it's a script on both sides.
Those in power will bloviate for a while and some minor, token action will
be taken. But until something real is done (and no, I don't claim to know
what) nothing will change. To be "horrified" (Bush) or to observe a moment
of silence (Pelosi and the House) is simply disingenuous. While I believe
that expressing some sort of sadness is better than being anesthetized to
violence, how can we truly be surprised? More relieved, I think. Relieved
that it happened "there" and not "here."

Dan