Writing on Wall 2: Against the Spin of Violence and Hate

From a Canadian friend: about “Hate Crimes.”
From the NYTimes’ Bob Herbert:
“I remember having lunch with Marian Wright Edelman, the president of the Children’s Defense Fund, a few days after the Virginia Tech tragedy. She shook her head at the senseless loss of so many students and teachers, then told me: “We’re losing eight children and teenagers a day to gun violence. As far as young people are concerned, we lose the equivalent of the massacre at Virginia Tech about every four days.”
And Paul Krugman:
” … the likes of Mr. Beck and Mr. O’Reilly are responding to popular demand. Citizens of other democracies may marvel at the American psyche, at the way efforts by mildly liberal presidents to expand health coverage are met with cries of tyranny and talk of armed resistance. Still, that’s what happens whenever a Democrat occupies the White House, and there’s a market for anyone willing to stoke that anger.”
As a friend says: To people who say “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people,” I say “people with guns kill people.”