The Arizona shooting
Been thinking about that a lot recently what with everybody trying to spin this tragedy to fit their own political agenda -- left, progressive and also right and conservative. All guilty.
Was reading Neanderpundit and
Og voiced the thoughts in my mind:
A retraction
Yesterday I counseled hatred for Jared Lee Loughner, and I have to retract that- I dislike and don�t do hatred. At least, I work very hard to try to avoid it.
See, if I had a houseful of cats, or a barnload of chickens, and there was a coyote and a fox, I�d shoot them both in a new york minute. But I wouldn�t hate them- in fact, I love dogs, and would be sad to have to destroy them- but the good of my chickens comes before the predator.
I�m not going to counsel hatred; instead, I�d like for this guy to be taken down like a mad dog, like a predator in a target rich environment. To hate someone- anyone, I think- is wrong. Better to dispassionately eliminate the threat from our society and thus be shut of the whole menace.
Just put the moke down. The Chinese
have the right idea...
Posted by DaveH at January 10, 2011 8:15 PM