Wrong Question
A man dressed as Santa Claus knocks on the door of a house in Covina, California on Christmas Eve. When a young girl answers the door, the man shoots her in the face. He walks into a large family gathering and begins shooting indiscriminately. He then sets fire to the house and leaves.
By the time he is finished, he has killed eight people.
Finally, he drives to another location and kills himself.
Now...
The young CNN reporter, putting on as grave a mask as he can muster, desperately trying to hide his overwhelming excitement that he is at last on network television and that it took nine deaths to get him there, intones deeply, "But the real question, Robin, is 'Why?'"
No it isn't.
Why is that the real question?
Let's suppose we learn the why? What will we know? What can we do about it?
The man lost his job. He had a sore tummy. His girl friend wouldn't fellate him. Wal-Mart wouldn't cash his pay check.
We could do something about this?
Psychiatrists would help him in weekly anger management courses?
The Why is completely irrelevant and serves only to help the writers for the back story they will need when they make the soon-to-be-released TV Mini-Drama, "Santa Rampage."
No.
There is only one useful question here and it is the one that will not be addressed.
Why is it so easy for Americans to buy guns?
2 comments:
David, David , David;
Your question also contained a 'why'. Could it be that the young reporter just was not complete enough in his sentence for you?
The ingrained myth that it is the Americans god and constitutional right to carry guns will never change. No matter how horrific the murders, nor devastating the loss, our neighbors to the South will fight to carry guns until the last one is dead.
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