The weekend! What is catching your attention this weekend?
The President used his weekly address to talk about the Aurora murders:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lBWtx4TuaY[/youtube]
Comforting. But not enough for some of us. It is this:
This weekend I hope everyone takes some time for prayer and reflection – for the victims of this terrible tragedy, for the people who knew them and loved them, for those who are still struggling to recover, and for all the victims of the less publicized acts of violence that plague our communities on a daily basis.
…coupled with the wall to wall TV coverage (I saw a little bit last night) that lets Americans indulge in this kind of horror from a safe place tells me that we are a culture that simply does not care enough the safety of our own kids to even broach a discussion about how to slow down the violence.
Then there’s Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker who speaks for me:
Every country has, along with its core civilities and traditions, some kind of inner madness, a belief so irrational that even death and destruction cannot alter it. In Europe not long ago it was the belief that “honor” of the nation was so important that any insult to it had to be avenged by millions of lives. In America, it has been, for so long now, the belief that guns designed to kill people indifferently and in great numbers can be widely available and not have it end with people being killed, indifferently and in great numbers. The argument has gotten dully repetitive: How does one argue with someone convinced that the routine massacre of our children is the price we must pay for our freedom to have guns, or rather to have guns that make us feel free? You can only shake your head and maybe cry a little.