“Do you feel that? That’s your sense of moral outrage dissipating,” Patrick Radden Keefe wrote, in 2012, the day after the Sandy Hook massacre. “If other recent massacres are anything to go by, our collective indignation has a half-life—and it isn’t long.”
in purchases of the very Glock semiautomatic that wounded her. Certainly, the firearm industry and lobby will confront some bad P.R. in the coming weeks, but they can likely find succor in an uptick in business. Following the Newtown shooting, Larry Pratt, the Executive Director of Gun Owners for America,As Pratt’s sentiment should make clear, the United States has slipped its moorings and drifted into a realm of profound national lunacy.
The saddest aspect of Obama’s failure to address the deadly and dysfunctional role that guns play in American life is that he knows better. As David Remnickon Friday, both in his Chicago years and as a candidate in 2008, Obama expressed support for greater gun control. After his election four years ago, gun sales shot up in anticipation of forceful new regulation. But the regulation never arrived.
, is that the genie is out of the bottle. This country is already drowning in guns—nearly three hundred million of them, by one count. Assuming for a moment that Obama chose to pursue a new ban, actually getting it passed would require an epic political battle.
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