Gag rule on guns

[SecularMotion]

For all the dysfunction in our political system, a healthy pattern usually takes hold when a terrible tragedy seizes the nation’s attention.

Normally, we engage in a searching conversation over what rational steps can be taken by individuals, communities and various levels of government to make the recurrence of a comparable tragedy less likely. Sometimes we act, sometimes we don’t, but at least we explore sensible solutions.

Unless the tragedy involves guns. Then our whole public reasoning process goes haywire. Anyone who dares to say that an event such as the massacre at a Colorado movie theater early Friday morning demands that we rethink our approach to the regulation of firearms is accused of “exploiting” the deaths of innocent people.

This is part of the gun lobby’s rote response, and the rest of us allow it to work every time. Their goal is to block any conversation about how our nation’s gun laws, the most permissive in the industrialized world, increase the likelihood of mass killings of this sort.

http://www.heraldnews.com/news/x1356108831/E-J-DIONNE-Gag-rule-on-guns#ixzz21SO43Mur

[DrDan]

1. there must be a manual issued with each weapon purchase outlining these "rote response"s

[turtlerescue1]

2. So-how do we quit burying our heads in the sand as a nation?

[dickthegrouch]

4. We call out all the pols

Obama thinks this is a time for reflection :contempt:. I say "No" it's time for action, we know what we need and it's time to act.

He needs to lead and to say to hell with the gun lobby.

[turtlerescue1]

5. Well there was Al Gore.

[Chorophyll]

3. K&R

[Tejas]

6. Gag rule on criminals.

Be ready for the monkeys to fling poo at the mention of finding out the WHY about an incident. We know HOW, when will anyone start to care about WHY.