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Of Rhetoric and Reality
Author: BobR
Date: 12/13/2013 22:27:02
In the days, weeks, months, and several years after 9/11, the response was somewhat different inside and outside of NYC. Those on the outside, those who had never set foot in Manhattan were sometimes the loudest to proclaim what we as a nation should or shouldn't do in response. Those who live and work in the city just wanted to get back to normal, and not pick at the scab from the wound torn on that horrible day.
On year ago tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the shooting that shook the nation. On Dec 14, 2012, Adam Lanza murdered 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary school. Most of those were children. The nation recoiled in horror and tried to take a long look at itself in the mirror. Tried, I say, because those who think guns are more important to our nation than our children fogged up that mirror with 2nd Amendment rhetoric. This time, we were promised, something would get done. One year later, only a few states have moved towards common-sense gun regulation. At the federal level - bupkis.
For the people of that town, what they want is gun laws to protect us from the nutjobs (as they've advocated in the year's interim). What they don't want is a media circus:
All the talk and all the speeches and all the special appearances, all the promises that this time, this time, something would get done, have fallen into the abyss. That is why it is sad and disturbing and frustrating that it has happened again, this time in the Denver area:
To put an exclamation point on the gun problem we have in this country:
Someone once said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That seems about right.
On year ago tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the shooting that shook the nation. On Dec 14, 2012, Adam Lanza murdered 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary school. Most of those were children. The nation recoiled in horror and tried to take a long look at itself in the mirror. Tried, I say, because those who think guns are more important to our nation than our children fogged up that mirror with 2nd Amendment rhetoric. This time, we were promised, something would get done. One year later, only a few states have moved towards common-sense gun regulation. At the federal level - bupkis.
For the people of that town, what they want is gun laws to protect us from the nutjobs (as they've advocated in the year's interim). What they don't want is a media circus:
Local government officials are urging the news media to stay away Saturday, the first anniversary of the Dec. 14 shootings that killed 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
"The community is choosing to remember and honor those who lost their lives in the Sandy Hook tragedy in ways that are quiet, personal and respectful — centered on themes of kindness, love and service to others," Newtown First Selectman Pat Llodra said in a written statement Monday.
Llodra said the town will not be hosting any memorial events and requested that the public and the press allow Newtown residents "the time to be alone and quiet with time for personal and communal reflection."
All the talk and all the speeches and all the special appearances, all the promises that this time, this time, something would get done, have fallen into the abyss. That is why it is sad and disturbing and frustrating that it has happened again, this time in the Denver area:
Two students have been wounded during a shooting inside Arapahoe High School in suburban Denver, authorities say. The gunman, who was reportedly armed with a shotgun, then apparently killed himself, police said.
One of the injured students is in critical condition at a nearby hospital, according to a hospital spokesperson. Police said the second injured student is in fair condition and may have suffered actual gunshot wounds.
According to law enforcement, the shooter was apparently targeting a particular teacher when one of the injured students confronted the shooter.
To put an exclamation point on the gun problem we have in this country:
The high school is only a few miles the Aurora movie theater where a dozen people were shot to death in 2012. Columbine High School, where 12 students and a teacher were killed during a shooting in 1999, is about eight miles away.
Someone once said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That seems about right.
