In Cleveland today, somebody went to a high school and started shooting students. Apparently at least three victims were carried out on stretchers. Right now, not much more is being reported, but it's a safe bet that it wasn't some maligned Middle Eastern terrorist organization aided and abetted by Iran or Syria that did it.
Nope, probably some home-grown, all-American terrorist aided and abetted by the National Rifle Association and a craven bunch of bipartisan cowards in Congress and the White House who steadfastly refuse to acknowledge that America's worst terrorism problem is right here at home, where anybody with murderous intent can easily acquire an a ridiculously lethal arsenal. Money talks a lot more loudly than reason, and the N.R.A. and its sycophants have lots of money.
Terrorism overseas and terrorism by foreigners on our soil is terrible, and has to be fought, even if it takes extralegal means, right? But terrorism here, by Americans availing themselves of our easy access to guns, why, that's just the gun lobby and the gun industry doing business. Ain't America grand?
We've got to get rid of the guns. That won't stop murder altogether, but it will reduce the level of carnage to something more comparable to the civilized world. And thousands upon thousands of Americans will avoid becoming victims of home-grown terrorists. Let's drown out the N.R.A. and its friends.
Note: this was originally posted on ketches, yaks & hawks 10 October 2007
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