Everyone's focused on the tragedy in VA Tech. Me too. I feel guilty because I root against them in ACC basketball (I went to 2 other ACC schools, you can guess which ones). I feel cynical that the debate has turned political already; it wasn't even 24 hrs old and already various political hacks were framing the debate as an issue of 2nd Amendment rights (which it's not).

I am a consumer of mass culture as much as the next person, but when events like this happen, I don't know what to do. On one side I want to shut it out, the horror, but on the other side I want everyone to realize that this kind of horror is happening everyday in Iraq.

On one side I want the media to focus on the uniquely American horror of what happens when you don't limit gun ownership, on the other side I want the media to focus on other important events of the day, like the politicization of the justice department which is particularly frightening.

Let me know what you think.

Everyone's focused on the tragedy in VA Tech. Me too. I feel guilty because I root against them in ACC basketball (I went to 2 other ACC schools, you can guess which ones). I feel cynical that the debate has turned political already; it wasn't even 24 hrs old and already various political hacks were framing the debate as an issue of 2nd Amendment rights (which it's not).

I am a consumer of mass culture as much as the next person, but when events like this happen, I don't know what to do. On one side I want to shut it out, the horror, but on the other side I want everyone to realize that this kind of horror is happening everyday in Iraq.

On one side I want the media to focus on the uniquely American horror of what happens when you don't limit gun ownership, on the other side I want the media to focus on other important events of the day, like the politicization of the justice department which is particularly frightening.

Let me know what you think.