Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 9:37 AM by Gene

Although upgrading the level of political discourse may be much needed and changes in gun laws (whether stricter or more permissive) may be argued, these steps will likely not make a shred of difference in term of the incidence of mass murder. Mass killers, though often delusional, are deliberate and determined. They seek revenge against specific individuals, or against society as a whole, in large part regardless of whatever social policies we put in place.

Short of rounding up all the guns and all of those who spew angry epithets or appear psychologically unstable, senseless episodes like the Tucson shooting will likely continue to occur. Mass murder is but one of the difficult and unfortunate prices that we pay for our freedoms.

It would have been nice if we'd had statistics for the years before our own, and we might have worded the last sentence a little differently as we can always work abortion into it, but this is as close to a common sense approach as we can get, and the whole piece underlines why such disasters are a never-ending source of torment, especially when the hacks can obsess on them to no end, for no reason.