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Kolhatkar writes: "We tend to see gun violence not as a pattern that needs a strong and immediate response, but as a series of disconnected incidents that simply cannot be helped. But perhaps it is a matter of perspective."

Children following the school shooting in Newtown. (photo: Michelle McLoughlin/Reuters)
Children following the school shooting in Newtown. (photo: Michelle McLoughlin/Reuters)


The LAX Shooting, Domestic Terrorism and the NRA

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Truthdig

09 November 13

 

Each time a horrific shooting takes place, the nation pauses, politicians pay lip service and the country's biggest gun lobby - the National Rifle Association - remains silent. After a suitable period has passed and public rage has receded, the NRA makes cynical pronouncements about activists abusing the memory of victims of the violence by calling for gun control. Americans, replete with lethal weaponry, move on without making any connections between the the cold metal in their holsters and the dead.

We tend to see gun violence not as a pattern that needs a strong and immediate response, but as a series of disconnected incidents that simply cannot be helped. But perhaps it is a matter of perspective.

Paul Ciancia, the 23-year-old accused of killing Gerardo Hernandez and wounding three others at the Los Angeles International Airport on Nov. 1, was immediately described as a "lone shooter," a category that enables us to dismiss such incidents as aberrations rather than part of a larger spectrum.

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