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 »
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.
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.
Oh geez, I’m sorry. You’re right, I linked the wrong article.
Nice one, Avery 🙂
I had to laugh at the nonchalant irony.
Indeed: a conversation is where only one view is visible.
Apparently.