I'm so sick of these moral panics every time a tragedy happens.

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72. The bomb in OKC killed 168 people in the Federal Building. The Ryder truck full of common

fertilizer and diesel fuel hit the first floor nursery first, and blew it through the upper 4 floors, leaving a gaping hole across the middle of what used to be a building. Among the kids in the nursery were 19 _under_ 6 years old.

One of the long-time R folks from Congress, on MSNBC today, said he "couldn't remember" another situation in which so many kids were killed. I can, and I suspect there are at least a few million that can.

Guns fire where they are pointed. People kill. Hate destroys.

While I think more thoughtfulness in gun sales is certainly called for, if we don't address hate, and perhaps mental challenges that may mimic or generate it, we will not be as effective in stopping whatever percentage of the 32,000 gun homicides/suicides yearly that we might have.

Because I think something will be done this time. And then there will be another mass casualty and people are going to look around and say "but we banned guns, dammit, now who do we blame?".