The Conversation

For the record, I don’t really have an opinion about gun control. But this article about the respectful silence and self-reflection in the pro-gun lobby following the recent school shooting contains a really revealing quote:

Sensing a pause from pro-gun rights groups and individuals, gun control advocates like Huffington Post columnist Robert Cavnar, a licensed gun owner, noted that “the conversation has finally begun.”

I have never seen such an explicit statement of how a “conversation” works in American politics.

Posted: December 17th, 2012 | Res pueriles | 4 Comments »

  • Boring Pastmaster

    I couldn’t seem to find the quote in the article you linked. Maybe they’ve edited it, maybe you’ve accidentally put up a different link, or maybe perhaps I’ve just gone blind.

    I think how quickly the gun control lobby has jumped on the deaths of children for its cause is rather deeply distasteful, and also an example of a rather disturbing search for very simple answers to deep problems, trite as this observation might be. There might yet be hope on some sort of wider cultural dialogue, but I sadly doubt it for now. Not being American, I am hardly entitled to start throwing my opinions on What Must Be Done into the fray.

  • Boring Pastmaster

    Ah, a small search and here it is, I think?: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2012/1216/Pro-gun-America-quiet-contemplative-in-wake-of-Sandy-Hook-massacre

    Thanks for bringing attention to this piece.

  • Avery

    Oh geez, I’m sorry. You’re right, I linked the wrong article.

  • The Crow

    Nice one, Avery :)

    I had to laugh at the nonchalant irony.

    Indeed: a conversation is where only one view is visible.

    Apparently.