I said it on Monday evening, when the reporting frenzy over the Virginia Tech case was at its height: the media, politicians, lobbyists, and ideologues are going to milk this for all its worth.
This case is fertile soil for issue-politics (gun-control, immigration policy, school safety measures) and identity-politics (isolation of minorities, Asian-American assimilation, social outcasts.)
Michael Daly over at the New York Daily News understands this: there is no time to mourn when minds are ripe to be changed. Mr. Daly had enough gall to run this column on Tuesday, the morning after the shooting.
It's lead paragraph read, "Still love those guns, Virginia?" and proceeded to make a "case" for stricter gun control.
What a disgrace.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment