‘We Should Say To Ourselves: Not One More’
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 27th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
‘We Should Say To Ourselves: Not One More’
“Why did Chris die? Chris died because of craven, irresponsible politicians and the NRA. They talk about gun rights. What about Chris’s right to live? When will this insanity stop? When will enough people say, ‘Stop this madness; we don’t have to live like this?’ Too many have died. We should say to ourselves: not one more.” — Richard Martinez, the father of Isla Vista victim Christopher Michael-Martinez. Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker writes, “Why did Christopher Michael-Martinez die? Because the NRA and the politicians they intimidate enable people to get their hands on weapons and ammunition whose only purpose is to kill other people as quickly and as lethally as possible. How do we know that they are the ‘because’ in this? Because every other modern country has suffered from the same kinds of killings, from the same kinds of sick kids, and every other country has changed its laws to stop them from happening again, and in every other country it hasn’t happened again. (Australia is the clearest case — a horrific gun massacre, new laws, no more gun massacres — but the same is true of Canada, Great Britain, you name it.)
