Guns to your gay mother, Mark Morford
Two Chechen-American idiots watch too much Internet and flagellate themselves into detonating a couple homemade bombs in Boston, and suddenly it’s an epic domestic terror attack that floods the nation with fear and panic, shuts down an entire major city and triggers the President of the United States to call Vladimir Putin directly, as an ever-whiny Congress re-debates immigration reform and “pressure cooker” shifts meaning in the American lexicon forevermore.
Meanwhile, Mother’s Day. A parade celebrating same courses through some rough neighborhoods of New Orleans. Suddenly, a 19-year-old thug (at least one, maybe more) of no greater or lesser quality than the idiot Tsarnaevs whips out his NRA-adored handgun and shoot 19 people, three of them children, for no reason whatsoever save that he, too, wished to lash out at his perceived enemies, the cops, the world.
The reaction? A numb shrug. A tragic sigh. Just another case of urban street violence that barely registers in the American consciousness because, hey, gun attacks are just the American way, aren’t they? And we’re powerless to stop them, right? Because guns are awesome? Because violence is just who we are? Right.
Besides, poor black people shooting each other in the mean streets of New Orleans? Who cares about that? It’s not like that teenager was shooting white children in Connecticut or something. Now that would be terrible.
The rest: http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2013/05/14/guns-to-your-gay-mother/
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