saying it’s all the fault\u00a0\u00a0of “ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs”<\/a> and, maybe, not enough people bringing guns with them to the movies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nWay to go in hijacking a tragedy for your political and social ends, folks! \u00a0Lovely way to take a horrible, bloody tragedy and instantly abscond with the bodies of its victims to use as damned talking points<\/em>.<\/p>\nMost of this sort of crap (I won’t mince words, much) has been from the more extreme and open-mouthed doofuses on the Right. \u00a0I haven’t heard (though I’d like to think I’d similarly loathe) similarly “Hey, I can use this for my side in the Culture Wars” bollocks from the Left, except …<\/p>\n
… well, there’s one area where there’s been a hugely bi-partisan<\/em> dose of Not Helping: the nigh-instant shrill debate (yet again) on gun laws in this country. \u00a0Which is certainly a worthwhile thing to debate (yet again) tomorrow:<\/em> what sort of weapons the citizenry should have and why and whether the weapons that the perp is said to have been carrying were beyond the pale or what any red-blooded American should be able to get and whether a more highly-armed society would have kept this massacre from happening or make it more likely that it would happen and …<\/p>\n… and, yeah, it may be a worthwhile debate (given the number of lives in the balance), but not now<\/em>. \u00a0Not today<\/em>. Not while there’s still crime scene tape and blood and people still not believing their loved ones are dead.<\/p>\nIf you want to make a difference today<\/em>, do something good for others today<\/em>. Maybe something related to this particular tragedy and in support of its victims, or maybe just doing something positive to help<\/em>\u00a0the world at large, or your corner of it, to try to balance in some way the bad thing that just happened. \u00a0Give blood, help a neighbor, adopt a cat from the shelter, donate to your favorite charity. \u00a0Do something.<\/em><\/p>\nSomething other than using these killings to make some damned point<\/em> in support of your personal politics or religion (or religious politics).<\/p>\nFor today, at least.<\/p>\n
Is that too much to ask?<\/p>\n
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