One Last Word on the Shootings

by · January 11, 2011

Rufus F.

Rufus is a likeable curmudgeon. He has a PhD in History, sang for a decade in a punk band, and recently moved to NYC after nearly two decades in Canada. He wrote the book "The Paris Bureau" from Dio Press (2021).

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  1. North says:
    January 11, 2011 at 12:36 pm

    Yeah. Nutbar hurts people; other people shoot off at the mouth (keyboard) and then comment threads across the internets swarm with invective and endless broad-brush painting, unsupportable assertions and pointless debate over unknowable motivations. The sooner the whole screeching mess passes on the happier I’ll be.Report

    • Rufus F. in reply to North says:
      January 11, 2011 at 1:02 pm

      Don’t get me wrong- I think the disucssion here has been pretty good so far. I’m just finding that much of the blogosphere is quickly approaching something out of the Onion. I think the headline would be, ‘American Political Left and Right Debate Heatedly Whether the True Victims of Tragic and Senseless Shooting Are Democrats Who Are Spoken About Badly or Republicans Who Are Spoken About Badly.’Report

      • Jaybird in reply to Rufus F. says:
        January 11, 2011 at 1:21 pm

        After 9/11, one of the things I noticed was how very many people knew that something like this was going to happen and this could have been avoided if only we had all followed their advice.

        Liberals argued that if only we had been more Liberal, this would not have happened.
        Conservatives argued that if only we had been more Conservative, this would not have happened.
        Libertarians argued that if only we had been more Libertarian, this would not have happened.
        Christians argued that if only we had been more Christian, this would not have happened.
        Atheists argued that if only we had been more Atheist, this would not have happened.
        I’m sure that personal trainers secretly believed that if only more folks exercised, this would not have happened.

        Having heard that, it’s hard not to hear a similar tune being played in the aftermath of pretty much any tragedy.Report

  2. tom van dyke says:
    January 11, 2011 at 3:01 pm

    The early takeaway is the public rejecting the sliming of the right by the left and their assorted allies in the news media.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20028105-503544.html?tag=cbsnewsMainColumnArea

    Not that that will discourage them from keeping on trying.Report

    • Rufus F. in reply to tom van dyke says:
      January 11, 2011 at 3:50 pm

      My early takeaway was that six people went to a public event to meet their local representative and take part in the political discussion and because of some maniac, they won’t celebrate their next birthday. That, to me, is what happened, and the rest is secondary.

      I understand that, for some liberals, what this is is a teaching example of how terrible conservatives are because of the climate of violence created by their rhetoric- vote Democrat! And, for some conservatives, what this is is a teaching example of how terrible liberals are in trying to politicize a tragedy- vote Republican! And, if you guys want to hash out that discussion, there are already four or five other threads to debate that.

      But, my point was just that, you know, the first takeaway should be that six people got murdered the other day without rhyme or reason.Report

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