re: #616 blueraven
Emotional outrage after 9/11 was never questioned. In fact the opposite occurred…if you were not suitably outraged enough according to the powers that be, you were not a patriot.
Did it go to far? Possibly. But emotional outrage is often a necessary driver for change.
The emotional outrage after 9/11 did go to far, mostly IMHO because it was driven by those seeking power and money. And they were successful.
As the “false scarcity” tool of marketing is being used right now to the benefit of the gun sellers. They are laughing all the way to the bank.
I’d like to think that maybe, just once, we’d get it right.