Doubtless whatever I say, someone will find fault, take offense, withdraw into positions, place guard dogs at the gates and lookouts in the towers.
We are a people enamored of the idea of violence. We like the idea that when it gets down to the proverbial nitty gritty we can and will kick ass and take names. Americans are tough, not to be messed with, ready to exact justice by knuckles or 9.mm.
Until something like this happens and then we recoil from our own defining myths with a collective “but that’s not what we meant!”
Adam Lanza murdered 26 people in a grade school, 20 of them 1st graders. …