The murderous rampage next door, By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Every tragedy births a supplication. Every assault, violent attack, assassination attempt and murderous spree begets the same series of questions, a palms-open appeal to the gods of law, society, humanity.

It goes like this: What will we learn? What will change? Will any solutions emerge? Who can fix this? Is it even possible? And finally, what the hell is wrong with us?

So it is that, in the wake of the Tucson rampage wrought by a deranged monster named Jared Loughner, a man with far too easy access to firearms and a brain far too full of tortured rhetoric, comes the collective wail from the right, the left, the president himself: Something must be done. We will get to the bottom of this. We will examine from every angle, figure this out, heal the wound.

Right. What wound would that be, exactly? The bottom of what? What, really, can or will be done? No one seems to know. Or rather, they sort of do, but no one has the nerve to do it. Ain't that America. ...


(Full URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/01/12/notes011211.DTL&nl=fix)

[xchrom]

1. i loved this:

'Answer: Not so much. More school security, maybe. More cameras, sophisticated alarm systems, bars on the windows. A few schools hired more psychologists. Check that: We did learn something. We learned that if there's one thing we're good at, it's armoring up, locking down, imprisoning ourselves deeper into the cave of dread. Meanwhile, the kids are still not all right.'

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/01/12/notes011211.DTL#ixzz1ApNGjWbS

[Carolina]

2. K&R

[malaise]

3. Must read

Rec

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[Swede]

4. K&R

[lonestarnot]

5. K & R!

[madokie]

6. Kick