1. The shooter had no political philosophy in any meaningful sense of the term. He was an emotional pimple and finally squeezed himself. The consequences are tragic.
2. The blaming of the gun is not so much muted as delayed. The media is still in its obligatory "Oh, how 'horrific' stage."
3. This is useful. Without the minute-by-minute expressions of ratings-building abject grief, we proles might think it only mildly annoying that the guy murdered a little girl, an apparently unobjectionable political operative, a judge, and three old folks.
4. Our opinion leaders will get around to the full-force horror of the armed citizen, per se, before too many more hours have passed.
Stay tuned.
2 comments:
Interesting metaphorical device. Would that be a hyperbole or an expression of a root metaphor?
I try not to think much of what little I remember from Miss Thistlebottom's class on the taxonomy of literary devices.
It's a metaphor, of course, but it was written a a simple image expressing disgust (for lack of a stronger word) at people who unnecessarily shoot other people.
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