It's time for us cats to weigh in on the latest mass shooting, a sadly recurring American event that we find acutely embarrassing.
Yes, we know that there was a shooting recently at a Jewish museum in Belgium. But goodness gracious. After Columbine, Aurora, Tucson, Virginia Tech, the Washington Navy Yard and Newtown, in the words of bereaved UCSB dad Richard Martinez, "When will this insanity stop?"
Martinez, in fact, has gone on another tear today, damning both Wayne LaPierre and the politicians who fear him. “I don’t care about your sympathy. I don’t give a s— that you feel sorry for me,” he said. “Get to work and do something." He urged Americans to send all elected officials post cards (and, we assume, e-mails) saying, "NOT ONE MORE."
We cats say, good on you, Mr. Martinez. We ardently wish you success, and we're sending our "NOM" messages as we speak. But why can't we shake this horrible feeling that Wayne and his minions are just ducking your incoming fire until attention turns elsewhere? That's been their strategy in the past, and it's worked. And after 20 slaughtered six-year-olds couldn't move the needle, how will six dead college kids?
Sigh. We so wish it were otherwise. In the meantime, while a half-dozen promising young kids may be dead, Scott Brown's exquisite sense of bad timing is alive and well. Saying you'd abolish gun-free zones in the same week that Elliot Rodger becomes the new Adam Lanza?
Scott, we have some advice for you: Don't call Richard Martinez with your condolences. You'll get an earful.
2 comments:
I rather DO hope that venal moron DOES end up on the phone with Mr. Martinez. He NEEDS an earful.
We cats think you're on to something. Every member of Congress who failed on guns should be forced to receive a call from Mr. Martinez so he can yell at them. And yes, we know that that would include some red-state Democrats.
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