I seldom comment on such horrors as the most recent mass shooting in America. It is always difficult to find the right words, and in this particular event, as a parent, I am numbed and can't even imagine what those parents are going through. The matter is extremely complex and requires an analysis of the type of society that exists, and a look at alternatives. Of course that babbling brook of bullshit, the media, will have a field day of pouring over the heart rendering misery of the people involved, displaying it like a tapestry of emotion for public consumption, but never a deeper analysis as to the why. Below are two paragraphs from an article that I think puts it better than I ever could.
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Before
the tears that fell from the presidents face hit the podium and the
Us troops deployed to Turkish borders could learn to pronounce
"Ahmadinejad " everyone had an opinion on the Connecticut
shooting. Celebrities and politicians all lined up, either to
propose stricter gun laws or to say, "now is not the time to
politicize." Even as the details from the Aurora shooting
continue to fill news pages and blogs after almost 3 months,
Once again we are trapped in a 9600+ hour news cycle where we will be
bludgeoned with every detail to emerge from the shooting as
hack journalists pontificating back and forth on "how" but
never look deeper then family/personal issues as to the
"why."--------
Read the full article HERE:There are a million factors that contributed to this, but I'd be remised if i didn't point out the hypocrisy and jingoistic nature of most of these responses. This is the shit we fund in Gaza, this is what our drones do daily throughout Islamic World. Tens of thousands of thousands of people have been killed by the American Empire in the past 10 years, and you'd be hard pressed to find as many American tears for our victims overseas. That is not to take anything away from this tragedy or equivocate, this was an utterly horrific act. If we really want to put an end to end to the mass shootings, we must begin to heal the society and culture that spawns them.
