In the wake of today’s shooting at the Sandy Hook
Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the only comment I have is to reiterate
what I said after the last
major mass shooting, at a Sikh temple in Milwaukee (which followed less
than a month after another
mass shooting at a movie theatre in Aurora, Colo.)
“Let me just say that a whackjob with a gun doesn’t really need a
cause to espouse or a specific group to hate; all he needs is the weapon(s),
the ammo, the access & maybe the ability to go to full-auto.“
I was right, too—it didn’t take long for the next
whackjob to target more victims for any or no reason at all.
2 comments:
You were absolutely right, though it's he kind of thing one hates to be right about....
What drills a hole in my heart about this is that my post about the Sikh temple massacre could have been applied equally well to the shooting in Aurora and the slaughter in Newtown. When the hell did mass murder become something that you can draw on boilerplate for your commentary?
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