{"id":146,"date":"2007-04-17T19:45:38","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T01:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=146"},"modified":"2007-04-17T19:49:39","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T01:49:39","slug":"a-step-toward-sensibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"A Step Toward Sensibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.  I&#8217;ve been beaten to the punch.  This will teach me to hold back my comments in the wake of a tragedy.  But we now have voices from as far left as <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2007_04_15_atrios_archive.html#117682019502224138\">Atrios<\/a> in a brilliant post, to <a href=\"http:\/\/ezraklein.typepad.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/gun_control.html\">Klein<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/04\/17\/vtech.shooting\/index.html\">Virginia Governir Tim Kaine<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2007\/04\/2020_mistakes.html\">Sullivan&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2007\/04\/let_the_debate_.html\">interns<\/a> cautioning against using the VT tragedy to advance ideas about security.<\/p>\n<p>The consensus, at least it some circles, is that you can&#8217;t really do much to stop a madman.  There&#8217;s not much you can learn from an extreme random event.  These events are, thankfully, stochastic in our society.  So locking down campi, grabbing guns, distributing guns or putting anti-depressants in the water isn&#8217;t going to do much good.  And there are greater ills to heal with the effort being spent.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if Barrack Obama just said what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0407\/Obama_on_Virginia_Tech_and_Violence.html\">Ben Smith<\/a> says he said (hat tip, Lee), it&#8217;s his first major gaffe.  Using the VT tragedy to segue into hurtful language and outsourcing is . . . words fail me.  Somewhere, Hillary is grinning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. I&#8217;ve been beaten to the punch. This will teach me to hold back my comments in the wake of a tragedy. But we now have voices from as far left as Atrios in a brilliant post, to Klein to Virginia Governir Tim Kaine to Sullivan&#8217;s interns cautioning against using the VT tragedy to advance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=146\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Step Toward Sensibility<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-law-and-order","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-2m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}