It's a bit of a relief that the massive winter storm hitting the northeast has largely driven coverage of the first anniversary of the "Sandy Hook" massacre from the news. Even more thankfully, the bad weather seems to be keeping the trolls out of the Newtown, Connecticut area.
I took the news of the Sandy Hook horror pretty hard, spending a good portion of the weekend with little kids on a regular basis. That being said, I am weary of the pieties that always seem to characterize remembrance, while nothing is done to address the original problem. Forget the memorials in the cathedrals and churches, the deity most commonly worshiped in this country isn't the Gentle Nazarene. This country's gods are Mammon and Moloch. The servants of Mammon keeping raking in the profits resulting from the ongoing sacrifice of children to the 7.62mm Moloch.
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I'm snowed in rather thoroughly at the moment, meself.
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I'm in for the long haul- our COO called to see how I was holding out, and I told her I had packed for a camping trip, which I did, as a matter of course.
It's not the 7.62, or even the 5.56 used in Sandy Hook and Aurora. These are a tiny fraction of America's gun violence problem sucking all the air out of the most important issue - handguns. Rifles account for something under 1% of American gun murders, and even less of overall gun crimes. We're stuck with that ridiculous and toxic constitutional guarantee (only three other nations are stupid enough to have one), but if we could make handguns more expensive and more scarce we could reduce the steady, nightly drip drip drip of gun murders. As long as we're stuck with an unlimited "right" to bear arms, we're going to have Sandy Hooks - that's just the tragic truth. But if we could save just a few of the thousands of kids who kill each other and themselves throughout the year, the shattered families and those incarcerated for one minute of insanity, we will have done what we can...
but if we could make handguns more expensive and more scarce we could reduce the steady, nightly drip drip drip of gun murders.
Chris Rock was right, we don't need gun control, we need bullet control.
You're stuck with a group of arms-dealers working to create an atmosphere of terror through their actions and words ("Your kids aren't safe at school because of all these crazy people whom we sold guns to!") in order to demand political changes ("It should be easier to buy and carry guns!").
There used to be a word for that. Starts with 'T'.
Not just easier to buy and carry, but now we have an intensly ideologically motivated set of state and federal legislators seeking to reduce the consequences when (white) people USE guns...
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