Keeping Perspective

A mentally deranged man shoots a Congresswoman and we have days of public debate in the media about whether it is the fault of overheated (Right wing) rhetoric. A mentally deranged man shoots a bunch of co-workers (which happens about once a week in the nation) and it hardly makes a ripple in the news. A mentally deranged college student or high school student shoots a bunch of fellow students in a school (which happens two or three times a year in America) and the media goes nuts. A mentally deranged man shoots a convenience store worker (which happens about once a month in America) and it hardly gets mentioned in the news.

Notice a pattern? If a shooting helps someone’s political agenda, especially a liberal agenda, it makes big news. If it doesn’t, it just gets thrown in with all the other daily murders in the nation and largely ignored outside of the local community.

The real issue here isn’t whether Sarah Palin is to blame for this shooting. The real issue is how did a known mentally-disturbed man manage to legally buy a gun?