In my post about the idiotic over-reaction to a New Jersey 10-year-old posing with his new squirrel rifle , Dana Garrett left me this response: One waits, apparently in vain, for you to post the annual rates of children who either shoot themselves or someone else with a gun. But then you Libertarians are notoriously ambivalent to and silent about data and facts and would rather talk abstract principles and fear monger (like the government will confiscate your guns). It doesn't require any degree of subtlety to see why you are data and fact adverse. The facts indicate we have a crisis with gun violence and accidents in the USA, and Libertarians offer nothing credible to address it. Lives, even the lives of children, get sacrificed to the fetishism of liberty. That's intellectual cowardice. OK, Dana, let's talk facts. According to the Children's Defense Fund , which is itself only querying the CDCP data base, fewer than 10 children/teens were killed per year in Delaw
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But possibly one reason we are less upset over wanton killing of Pakistanis and Afghans, far less so than we got upset over the Cambodians and Laotians.....
is that neither Cambodians or Laotians used airplanes to bring down the Twin Towers and poke a hole into the Pentagon...
I had to ask myself why I really wasn't concerned... and sad to say, I had deep down, the feeling they deserved it.
I'm not saying it is the right course of action, but it can be an explanation or insight as to why there is less outrage across the country.....
it is kind of sad, really.
Here's a better one: The media loves the president and will do little to harm him.
"...we are less upset over wanton killing of Pakistanis and Afghans, far less so than we got upset over the Cambodians and Laotians.....
is that neither Cambodians or Laotians used airplanes to bring down the Twin Towers and poke a hole into the Pentagon..." - kavips
None of the 9/11 hijackers was from Afghanistan or Pakistan.
K: Yup, sad.
I was thinking of the outrage about Cambodia the other day in relation to the drone strikes. The only difference is the accuracy of the drones makes carpet bombing unnecessary. It is still wrong and illegal.
I wonder if we might dig up some quotes from the dinosaurs in congress from that era.
DC: I understand they trained in Afghanistan. "
They also trained in Florida, but we did not attack Florida.
Wow, Steve, what a great and appropriate analogy. Absolutely stunning. Perhaps you should consider working this up into an op ed for the New York Times. I think they might bite at that one.