TIME AND PLACE FOR EVERYTHING

Another tragic mass shooting has occurred in this country, this time in Washington, D.C. at the Navy Yard.  I am not going to go into some long diatribe about this issue or that issue.  I have my views...views which I will share in a later blog entry.  However, there are politicians and advocates on both sides of the political spectrum, who do not understand a simple concept that parents teach their children from an early age..."There is a time and place for everything".

Aaron Alexis' gun barrel still has smoke coming out of it.  Bodies are still in the process of being claimed by family.  Evidence is still being collected.  And we have politicians and advocates who are exploiting this tragedy for their own gain, regardless of the validity of their claims and the righteousness of their position.  And we have a story-starved press, who do not have any problem producing inaccurate news stories for a reality show-addicted culture who thinks that Miley Cyrus' "twerking" is a controversy worthy of a "BREAKING NEWS" alert and front page billing.

Let the families grieve.  Let the police do their job.  Let the employees of the Navy Yard collect themselves.  Let the community heal and get themselves together.  This is not an episode of "NCIS", where Gibbs and DiNoso solve the crime within an hour.  This is real life.  Wait a few days...maybe a week, and then we can hope for sensible conversations about gun control, mental illness, the fallibility of background/security checks., etc...that is if we are even capable of having sensible conversations.

AND THAT IS THE MARC-UP!!!