Tell me again.
Tell me again why your right to own a fucking gun trumps my right, and my children's right, to live in a world where we don't have to worry about getting gunned down.
Tell me again why the killing of innocent children by other children isn't really that big a deal, and that this all could have been avoided if we had other, "better" people there with even more guns.
Tell me again, NRA, that guns don't kill people. Actually, tell that to the parents of two dead teenagers in Marysville, Washington, thirty miles away from where I'm sitting right now. I'm sure that the parents of the shooter and his victim would love some words of wisdom from a terrorist organization like yours about now.
Actually, don't tell me. I know how this will end. The same way that it always ends. The same way that I'm seeing it happen right now, in local and national media. It will fade away, and yet another chance to talk about doing something constructive about guns in this country will fade away with it. The pictures, the condolences, the tears, will all be forgotten in the next horror story. Oh, it may last a little longer this time - after all, the shooter was a "popular" kid instead of one of those "loser", loner types - but the story will still fade away in time. After all, if the murder of what, 20 innocent six year olds didn't change anything, why would this?
But please, tell me again how we can still call ourselves the greatest country in the world.
Because I really doubt that the parents of those two dead children feel that way tonight.