33 dead in Blacksburg. The nation goes crazy.
Who needs terrorism? Who needs fantasies of mad Arabs when we have our own homegrown variety. No, wait, this one was a Chinese South Korean on a student visa. (UPDATE: The shooter came to the U.S. at age eight. We owe Korea an apology. Seems he was a Macacan.)
Bring me your tired, your poor, we’ll give him a gun.
I’m being flip about mass murder. What an awful human being I am.
But in the last 24 hours, in Iraq, a suicide bomber near Karbala killed 40, and two British helicopters crashed. This happens every day there. Iraq, the cradle of civilization, has less than one-tenth our population and something like Blacksburg happens every single day there. Oh, and 4 million are uprooted from their homes, the equivalent of 55 million Americans.
We call it liberation. This is what insanity looks like. It all falls down, and the people who aren’t driven crazy by it — I now think they’re the crazy ones.
Where is the sense of proportion? Where is the sense? We made these
choices. We chose for this to happen. We ignored the warnings, about
guns, about war killing innocents, and we chose for this to happen.
We chose to make it bang-bang easy to kill people. Oh, we should arm everyone and it will stop? You want to put guns in the glove compartment of every car in every day’s Atlanta traffic jam? You think that will stop it? Or do you think it will force cops to kill more unarmed people?
But now I’m the evil-doer, because I dare bring it up. Instead let the
grief flow. Let us call all this violence senseless. Let’s wait a
while. And then let’s have the same tired-old arguments about war, and
guns, and death. That’s the civilized way.
Did someone call us civilized? We started that war, and have no plans to end it. We promoted those gun laws and have no plans to change them.
Instead we call all the violence senseless. It’s a terrible, terrible tragedy.
Only it’s not.
Have you read this?
Sounds in tune with your current views.
BillK
Excerpt
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
By Lee Iacocca with Catherine Whitney
http://www.bordersstores.com/features/feature.jsp?file=wherehavealltheleadersgone
Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can’t even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, “Stay the course.”
Stay the course? You’ve got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic. I’ll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out!
etc……
Have you read this?
Sounds in tune with your current views.
BillK
Excerpt
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
By Lee Iacocca with Catherine Whitney
http://www.bordersstores.com/features/feature.jsp?file=wherehavealltheleadersgone
Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can’t even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, “Stay the course.”
Stay the course? You’ve got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic. I’ll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out!
etc……