I hope everyone here was spared directly and indirectly by today’s horror. Sadly, in America, it will happen again because it happened in the past over and over and over again.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2012/12/14/if-todays-shooting-wont-prompt-action-then-nothing-will/

If today’s shooting doesn’t prompt action on guns, then nothing ever will

Posted by Greg Sargent on December 14, 2012 at 4:23 pm

The news from Newtown is indescribably awful, unbearable. The Associated Press puts the death toll at 27, including 20 children. I have kids, and I can’t describe how horrible I feel for the parents of those who are going through the worst nightmare any of us can fathom, or even for those parents who endured initial spasms of terror, only to discover to their indescribable relief that their own children had been spared. ‘Spared,’ even though they, too, may end up deeply scarred.

After these massacres our public officials regularly vow that a ‘conversation’ — whatever that means — has to take place about guns. After which they throw up their hands and lament that ‘political reality’ dictates that no actual discussion about gun policy could possibly go anywhere. And nothing happens.

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