Another school shooting
Some nutjob walked into a school and started shooting. At last count, five girls were killed. It’s tragic. The Brady Camp didn’t even let the bodies get cold before politicizing it. I think Katie True summed it up best:
Someone gets up one day and says, ‘I’m gonna kill all the girls.’ How do you legislate against that?
You can’t.
Update: Aunt B. looks at it from a feminist perspective (not the crazy kind of feminism, the good kind. For the crazy kind of feminism, go here):
I woke up to NPR this morning and the woman reading the news was going on about “the children.” “The children” were tied up. “The children” were killed. And so I woke up thinking “Those were girls and it matters that they were girls because the killer chose them because they were girls. Don’t say ‘children’ like the story is their age.”
Update 2: Dr. Helen, a psychologist, looks at characteristics of mass murderers. Whatever happened to they’re just crazy? I mean, we all understand crazy.
We are all at the mercy of the lone nutcase who’s not afraid to die.
October 3rd, 2006 at 10:13 pm
We are all at the mercy of the lone nutcase who’s not afraid to die.
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. If you carry you are prepared and you can give opportunity a chance. Running away has merit as does a cell phone, but when you are in a corner you need to be prepared.