- But none of (what we need to do) will be likely unless, in our grief and fear, we also muster up clarity and outrage. Right now - before the public debate is recaptured by questions of which politician said what to whom.
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(August 6 2012) It could be terrorism, but we don't yet know. It could be someone who has a beef with Sikhs. It's too early to talk about gun control. These statements ran in a continuous loop through my head yesterday, even when I wasn't watching coverage of the mass shooting at an active gurdwara in a suburb of Milwaukee. Throughout the day, the hollowness in my solar plexus signaled grief and the tightness in my throat signaled panic, and I felt deep, deep resistance to the notion of saying anything about it. What is there to say that isn't a cliche?
Details are going to emerge in the coming days, but I already know what they'll amount to. A white man, in his 40's, nursing resentment over 9/11 for more than a decade, planned for a long time to kill some "enemies." The guns will turn out to be legally acquired, or if not, so accessible as to make the law meaningless. The man will turn out to be mad. In the debate, people will argue that the cause is racism...no, it's gun
control...no, it's mental health. It is impossible for us to navigate the deadly tangle of all three.
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November 20, 2012 | As someone who was one of the poor kids 25 years ago, I was glued to this documentary. I loved the focus being on the kids. I couldn't help but wonder about why the one family had cable if they were hungry, or why the one Mom had fake nails and hungry kids, or why there were soda cans and flat screen TVs and guitars in the background. I am in my early 30's now, educated and in debt because of it, and still don't have cable or cans of soda in the fridge. I take great care to not become pregnant and don't have manicures. My heart goes out to the children. This documentary makes me even more grateful for my Mother and the things she taught us about what did and didn't matter when we were growing up with bologna sandwiches in a small trailer with a hole in the floor and a kerosene heater.