This hits a little too close to home, for sure:
On Jan. 8, 2011, we as a society were shocked and dismayed when 19 people, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic congresswoman from Arizona’s 8th District, were shot during a public meeting outside a local supermarket. Six people were killed and Rep. Giffords suffered a near-fatal head wound. In the wake of this national tragedy, there seemed to be a clarion call to have an open dialogue about gun control, a thoughtful conversation about the way this country treats its mentally ill, and a long overdue discussion about the consequences of overly inflammatory political rhetoric.
Well, seeing as I haven’t heard so much as a word about any of those topics in the past three months, I’m going to go ahead and assume that at some point we thoroughly explored those complex issues, resolved them, and are now living our lives based on the lessons we learned from the in-depth conversations I assume we had.
After all, if the crucial, imperative questions raised by this shooting—and there were many—hadn’t been satisfactorily answered, we’d still be discussing them, right?
This article appears in May 19-25, 2011.
chit happens aint now law gonna stop it. talk all day if ya want to but it don’t change a thing.
it’s very irritating every picnic, fundraiser, news story always involves jan 8th shooting, when will this nonsense end?