I remember reading about a time when we were randomly bombing our enemy of the moment and all their kin into the ground and someone was quoted with: "They don’t care about their children the way we do about ours." And I thought at the time: What callous idiocy.
Well, now all those true blue Americans out there who experience this special pain for their children, for our nation's children, have their opportunity to step up to the plate because while they have obviously been able to live with other school massacres, perhaps rationalizing: Well, shit happens to teens (Columbine) and young adults (Virginia Tech), I'll be amazed if they dare to rationalize away last week's massacre of the innocents in that kindergarten class in Newtown, CT.
As I saw pictures of Obama wiping away tears as he talked about this horrific slaughter what strangely came to mind was The Walrus and the Carpenter poem by Lewis Carroll. There, both the walrus and the carpenter wept copious tears ("they wept like anything to see") as they led the young oysters, hand and hand, to their death.
If we as a country, once again, do nothing to implement gun control after another endemic slaughter, then we are all just willing walking in hypocrisy as our politicians make the clucking sounds of comfort.
Unfortunately, I believe a comment at Tbogg may have summed it up best last Friday:
You know what? The majority of people in this country are just fine with the occasional kindergarten slaughter, as long as their right to bear as many arms as they fucking feel like bearing is not infringed. So fuck all the sanctimony and handwringing. Deep down inside people are OK with this, because if they weren't, something would have been done about it a long time ago.
No Movie Monday today.
Well, now all those true blue Americans out there who experience this special pain for their children, for our nation's children, have their opportunity to step up to the plate because while they have obviously been able to live with other school massacres, perhaps rationalizing: Well, shit happens to teens (Columbine) and young adults (Virginia Tech), I'll be amazed if they dare to rationalize away last week's massacre of the innocents in that kindergarten class in Newtown, CT.
As I saw pictures of Obama wiping away tears as he talked about this horrific slaughter what strangely came to mind was The Walrus and the Carpenter poem by Lewis Carroll. There, both the walrus and the carpenter wept copious tears ("they wept like anything to see") as they led the young oysters, hand and hand, to their death.
If we as a country, once again, do nothing to implement gun control after another endemic slaughter, then we are all just willing walking in hypocrisy as our politicians make the clucking sounds of comfort.
Unfortunately, I believe a comment at Tbogg may have summed it up best last Friday:
You know what? The majority of people in this country are just fine with the occasional kindergarten slaughter, as long as their right to bear as many arms as they fucking feel like bearing is not infringed. So fuck all the sanctimony and handwringing. Deep down inside people are OK with this, because if they weren't, something would have been done about it a long time ago.
No Movie Monday today.
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