In response to LA Gov. Jindahl's abhorrence of a terrible, unspeakable, unthinkable,highly unexpected event, Charles Pierce proffers a first step toward rational gun policy: facing the facts:
the two words that I think should be eliminated from the dictionary when dealing with another mass shooting are "unspeakable" and "unthinkable," because quite honestly, if at this point you cannot think about how one of these things happens, then you haven't been paying attention. And if we don't speak about it, then they're going to keep on happening.Which should/would compel:
someone to make the argument as honestly as possible that one of these shootings every two weeks is the price we pay for our freedom in this country. I want someone... I don't want both of those divorced any more. I want one of the people opposed to sensible gun laws, to please make that argument that this is just something we have to take as a population, because we have a Second Amendment. The honesty would be refreshing at this point.http://crooksandliars.com/...=
