At 00:52 6-3-01 -0600, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>As the afternoon's events in California have shown, we haven't even
>invented the "disgruntled loner schoolboy" detector.
Two things shot (no pun intended) through my mind when I saw it on the
news, more precisely when I saw Bush offering his condolences to the
families of the victims.
The first thing was "jeez, what a hypocrit -- he acts like he's grieving,
but at the same time he's good friends with the NRA, and this will not
convince him to come up with more strict gun laws".
The second thing that came to mind was Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the wind":
Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
Yes, mr. Bush, how many more innocent lives must be lost before the you
realize all these deaths are not mere statistics, but real tragedies that
could have been avoided... :(
Jeroen
