Only America has an endless series of gun killings.
It's the sequence I discussed in a video last fall, after what is for now still the highest-casualty gun killing, in Las Vegas.
Politicians who have done everything possible to oppose changes in gun laws, and who often are major recipients of NRA contributions, offer "Thoughts and prayers" to the victims, say they are "Deeply saddened," praise the heroes of law enforcement and of medical treatment who have tried to limit the damage, and lament the mental-health or cultural problems that have expressed themselves via an AR-15."Thoughts and prayers" are of course admirable.
These same politicians say that the aftermath of a shooting is "Not the right time" to "Politicize" the tragedy by talking about gun laws or asking why only in America do massacres happen week after week after week.
Two months later, in the first State of the Union address of his second term, he made the case for gun legislation with a passion and intensity quite rare in these big, formal speeches.
The ending of his speech was built around the phrase and concept that people devastated by gun violence deserved at least the respect of a formal up-or-down congressional vote on gun-control laws.
The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a. simple.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/deeply-saddened/553478/
It's the sequence I discussed in a video last fall, after what is for now still the highest-casualty gun killing, in Las Vegas.
Politicians who have done everything possible to oppose changes in gun laws, and who often are major recipients of NRA contributions, offer "Thoughts and prayers" to the victims, say they are "Deeply saddened," praise the heroes of law enforcement and of medical treatment who have tried to limit the damage, and lament the mental-health or cultural problems that have expressed themselves via an AR-15."Thoughts and prayers" are of course admirable.
These same politicians say that the aftermath of a shooting is "Not the right time" to "Politicize" the tragedy by talking about gun laws or asking why only in America do massacres happen week after week after week.
Two months later, in the first State of the Union address of his second term, he made the case for gun legislation with a passion and intensity quite rare in these big, formal speeches.
The ending of his speech was built around the phrase and concept that people devastated by gun violence deserved at least the respect of a formal up-or-down congressional vote on gun-control laws.
The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a. simple.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/deeply-saddened/553478/
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