And the Ft. Hood gun-violence disaster only happened yesterday. A brave police officer possibly kept this one from being much worse: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_go_ot/us_fort_hood_shooting_suspect
(And, we're getting to be a great country....for mourning. Honoring the murdered is appropriate of course, but we're not realistically addressing the real, causal issues.)
11/10/09 update: Another one. This guy in Oregon had a rifle.....then apparently ended up shooting himself -- like a coward. Link to AP story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091110/ap_on_re_us/us_office_park_shooting
"Thanksgiving" update (11/27/09): Well....most of us managed to get through Thanksgiving without murdering four of our relatives with our gun. (Including a 6-year-old girl.) : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34170956/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts
"Pandora's box" is wide open in the U.S re guns and associated gun violence. I've said that over and over again here.....
The country has over 300 million people. Inevitably, a dangerous few are going to "be" like these (latest) suicidal cowards (or whatever). Or emulate them. Why make it easier for "whack jobs" to mass-kill and maim (like cowards)?
This isn't 18th or 19th century America any more. Most of us don't shoot our dinner. We're no longer "claiming"/defending the frontier....
An excerpt from a recent email message from Sarah Brady, Chair of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence:
"The incident at Fort Hood reminded me again of the mass shootings earlier this year in Pittsburgh and Binghamton, the hate killings in Wichita and Washington, DC, and the threatening, gun-toting demonstrators at the town hall meetings and health care rallies.
We make it too easy for dangerous people to get dangerous weapons.
Assault weapons don't belong in our neighborhoods, and 5-7 "cop killer" guns – like the one used at Fort Hood — don't belong in anyone's hands.
It's insanity. And the Brady Center is doing something about it...."
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