One more case of the horrendous double standard:
Yes, the deaths of innocent children at the hands of a psychopath in Connecticut today is a heart-wrenching tragedy. Yes, it is newsworthy because it is so senseless. And yes, such actions should make us look objectively at all the questions that are raised.
Now for the part of this that makes me livid with anger: We are all outraged when a few American children are gunned down by someone for reasons that only he thought he knew; why do we not feel the same outrage, devote the same heavy news coverage when innocent children (and adults, for that matter) are massacred by drone aircraft in Pakistan or Afghanistan? I can see no difference in the psychopathy between the 20-something who murdered the Connecticut children today and the politicians, judges, and military brass who are responsible for those deaths in Asia. To me they are all of the same cloth; they murder innocent children, and they have some cockamamie justification that only a disturbed mind could possibly understand.
Why almost every country in Europe has gun-control laws that, though not preventing all such crimes, certainly reduce their numbers by a worthwhile degree and yet the U.S.A. continues to defend its incomprehensibly liberal "right to bear arms" I will never understand. If the Washington sickos were acting responsibly, the U.S.A. would have gun-control laws that would make any other such laws in the world seem lame by comparison. That is not likely to happen because, in this country, the crazies are in control at every level.
Yes, what I'm saying is that the president, congress, and the legal profession share fully in the guilt of what occurred today in Connecticut.
Now for the part of this that makes me livid with anger: We are all outraged when a few American children are gunned down by someone for reasons that only he thought he knew; why do we not feel the same outrage, devote the same heavy news coverage when innocent children (and adults, for that matter) are massacred by drone aircraft in Pakistan or Afghanistan? I can see no difference in the psychopathy between the 20-something who murdered the Connecticut children today and the politicians, judges, and military brass who are responsible for those deaths in Asia. To me they are all of the same cloth; they murder innocent children, and they have some cockamamie justification that only a disturbed mind could possibly understand.
Why almost every country in Europe has gun-control laws that, though not preventing all such crimes, certainly reduce their numbers by a worthwhile degree and yet the U.S.A. continues to defend its incomprehensibly liberal "right to bear arms" I will never understand. If the Washington sickos were acting responsibly, the U.S.A. would have gun-control laws that would make any other such laws in the world seem lame by comparison. That is not likely to happen because, in this country, the crazies are in control at every level.
Yes, what I'm saying is that the president, congress, and the legal profession share fully in the guilt of what occurred today in Connecticut.