Thoughts/Prayers Are NOT Enough - We're going to talk about guns-Just TRY To Shut Us Up.

[kpete]

We’re going to talk about it.

We’re going to talk about it because our thoughts and prayers are not enough. They were not enough after Columbine (15 dead), or the Amish schoolhouse (6 dead), or Virginia Tech (33 dead), or Tucson (6 dead), or Aurora (12 dead), or the Wisconsin Sikh temple (6 dead), and they are not enough now that another 28 once living, breathing people have been added to the tally. To offer only thoughts and prayers is to say “Well, that’s a damn shame. Sure hope it doesn’t happen again.” We have done this every time. And every time, it’s happened again. So we’re going to talk about it.

We’re going to talk about guns.

There shouldn’t be a requirement to wait a certain amount of time before we can talk about guns. The time to talk about food safety is after an e. coli outbreak; the time to talk about preparedness and global warming is after a hurricane socks New York, which is usually not socked by such things. Those are appropriate problems to talk about because they are problems right freaking then, and if the time to talk about guns isn’t after some guy uses one to kill 20 little kids, when is the time?

It isn’t disrespectful to try to learn from the deaths of those 27 innocent people, or from the 28th guilty one, who is only one of thousands of people who used a gun to kill himself this year. It would be far more insulting to look at their deaths and shrug, and hope maybe people get less unbalanced.

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much more talk about guns:
http://wonkette.com/493036/earnest-wonkette-think-piece-here

[CTyankee]

1. There's a fair amount of trying to shut us up around here...

but they won't be successful. We will.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. NOW IS NOT THE TIME!!!!!!!!! ARRRRRRRRRRRRGTYHHHHGGGYHHYH NNOOOOOOOO

DONT TRY TO TAKES THE PRECIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[we can do it]

3. OMG!!! That illustrates the gun nuts perfectly!

laughing though I should be crying

[kestrel91316]

4. Best. Post. Ever.

[backtoblue]

5. k.n.r.