LA Times (February 15)
Less than two decades after the deadly shootings at Columbine, America’s shooting epidemic has simply become “a basic part of regular life.” Today America is inured to the blood. “The Florida shooting too shall pass, as did Columbine, Sandy Hook, Santa Monica College and so on — all allowed to fade into the backdrop of American memory without a thing being done. This is us. Until we decide finally, forcefully, effectively, that it is not.”
Tags: Blood, Columbine, Deadly, Epidemic, Florida, Sandy Hook, Santa Monica College, Shootings, U.S.
USA Today (December 18)
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg writes, “The slaughter of 20 innocent children and the six adults who tried to save them in Newtown, Conn., marked a turning point in our national consciousness…. There is no looking away from the murdered children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. There is no ignoring the anguish felt by their parents and by the families…. And there is no escaping the fact that we must do more to protect our communities from gun violence.”
Tags: Bloomberg, Gun violence, New York, Newtown, Sandy Hook
Washington Post (December 17)
“The Bushmaster .223-caliber semiautomatic rifle that Adam Lanza carried into Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday is a frightful killing machine…. Most of the victims were hit with at least three bullets — and some with up to 11 — that exploded with devastating lethality, tearing them apart from inside…. The tragedy leads to an inescapable conclusion. There is no defensible reason for civilians to own a Bushmaster or other semiautomatic rifles, known more broadly as assault weapons.”
Tags: Assault weapons, Bullets, Lanza, Sandy Hook, Tragedy, Victims
