'US school shooting should prompt action on guns'

December 15, 2012 04:50

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.

This time I want to believe things may be different. This seems like a level of horror that belongs to a whole different category, one that has the potential to shame our public officials into action, as long as we insist that there is no other moral alternative.

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