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{"id":21029,"date":"2012-12-27T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.occasionalplanet.org\/?p=21029"},"modified":"2013-01-31T14:26:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:26:12","slug":"it-took-too-long-to-start-the-gun-control-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2012\/12\/27\/it-took-too-long-to-start-the-gun-control-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"It took too long to start the gun control debate"},"content":{"rendered":"
Progressives, can you imagine Rachel Maddow shying away from a story high on the liberal agenda. I couldn\u2019t until the evening of Friday, December 14,\u00a0 following the horrendous massacre at SandyHook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. I had watched CNN much of the day following the shooting and then the CBS Evening News. They talked about the terrible tragedy; the pain and suffering of the families; the shame on America factor. What they didn\u2019t directly talk about was gun control. It was as if it was a hot potato, and they didn\u2019t want to touch it.<\/p>\n
None of that surprised me, although it did disappoint me. However, I was sure that Rachel Maddow would address the issue head on \u2013 at the top of her evening show. No such luck. She started off reading a series of quotes about how horrible the disaster was. Because she often takes a circuitous route to cleverly get to her main point, I still had hope that she would make the issue of gun control the top story of the evening. It didn\u2019t happen that way. It wasn\u2019t until the second half of the show that she dedicated a few minutes to perhaps the most important factor of the incident; that we have way too many guns in our society, and we have shied away from enacting legislation to limit them. We have even been skittish about talking about guns. However, I thought that she would \u2013 in a big way. She didn\u2019t. To her credit, she began her next show on Monday, December 17 with extensive examination of the gun control issue.<\/p>\n