Thursday, December 20, 2012

 It shouldn't have taken a Sandy Hook to get our attention
   Should it have taken a Sandy Hook to snap us to attention?
   Should not we have seen that if we were so devoted to guns as to adopt state guns, just like we adopt state flowers and state flags, something was amiss?
   Should not we have considered that if we as Americans own half the guns in all the world, something was wrong? And, if we had twenty times -- twenty times! -- the gun-related murder rate of the average developed nation, something was very much awry? I will grant there might be room for which nations are included as "developed," but not much. Being 20 times worse than the other nations should shock us, embarrass us, and cause to drift thru our minds the notion we might be doing something a little off kilter.
   Sandy Hook is the hook that got our attention, but it should not have taken this.

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