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The New York Times is inviting an angry barrage of letters from American gun lovers with today's editorial:
EditorialGun CrazyThe Valentine’s Day massacre at Northern Illinois University, like the killings at places such as Columbine High School and Virginia Tech, has evoked expressions of horror and sympathy and familiar questions about the killer’s motives and mental health. Atrocities like these make Americans feel angry and perhaps helpless.
Our political leaders are not helpless. They could match public shock with prompt, concerted and effective action to make mass shootings a less frequent fact of American life. But neither party’s leaders have shown any sign of stepping up their responsibilities. The latest campus carnage barely caused a ripple in presidential politics, where conventional wisdom dictates against actively advocating more stringent gun control laws.
No single measure or combination of measures can ensure that deranged individuals are prevented in every instance from shooting up a crowded classroom or shopping mall. But neither the absence of a perfect solution nor opposition from the powerful gun lobby is an excuse to do nothing — not when some 30 people are killed with guns every day in America. The rampage at the Northern Illinois campus was at least the sixth multiple murder in this country in just the first two weeks of February....
click here The Times then goes on to list a few recommendations for cutting off the flow of human blood in our nation -- but the NRA is probably already drawing a bead on every one of these suggestions -- loudly proclaiming that each one of them violate the Second Amendment.
Too bad Valentine's Day is past. Any self-respecting American would send his or her sweetie their Number One Sweetie, a cute little hand gun with a fully loaded clip.
