Political cures that may be worse than the disease Vol.7: National Tragedies

It took less than six hours for the more fervent political talking heads to take the tragedy at Virginia Tech and twist it to support their positions. Does this mean we need tighter gun control? Does it mean we need to loosen concealed weapon laws so people can have guns to shoot back with? The gunman was an immigrant, do we need to close the borders?

The answer is the same for any question regarding the political impact of a tragedy like this: Shut the fuck up!

Do you want a political statement to come out of this? Fine! When something like this happens, it should be a law that ANYONE attempting to politicize it should first pose these questions to the families of the victims. Not that I wish any extra grief upon these people, but if someone wishes to be so insensitive by trying to make the victims into martyrs for causes they had absolutely nothing to do with, shouldn't they first get the permission of the next of kin?

That, and I'd love to see these self-important nozzleheads be beaten within an inch of their lives at the hands of a victim's mother. Believe me, if some guy had come to me within hours of my father's accident and tried to propose stricter hang gliding legistlation, even with my passive nature and the fact that I was only twelve, I would not have hesitated for a second to beat the life out of him.

And, to make matters worse, I read today that the Westboro Baptist Church is planning to protest at the funerals because America is a sinful place and they believe these people deserved to die.

Let these people grieve, for fuck's sake! It's a senseless tragedy. Key word being senseless. Nobody knows what set this guy off, but you can rest assured that his last words were not "This'll show those fuckheads in Washington, D.C.!!!"

No words or opinions ever brought someone back from the dead. In fact, in times like these, even the kindest words do very little to console the victims' families. And words like "See? SEE?!? There could've been LAWS to prevent this!!!" is not gonna change the fact that it happened. In addition to that, there's no certainty that if there were laws in place that this could've been prevented!

There's a reason we observe moments of silence. There are reasons there are five stages of grief, and it takes a little longer than six hours for those stages to pass...and for the record, righteous indignation is not one of those five stages.