Quotable Quote

From Cindy’s Front Porch column this week:

My hope was that at least for a few hours, we could lay down our politically divisive views on gun control, religion and homosexuality and simply be human beings acknowledging the horrible loss of life. Perhaps grieve in unity for just a bit with the families of the bereaved.

Silly me. I forgot national tragedy has now become political opportunity, with proponents of gun control advocating their views and Second Amendment activists and proponents of open-carry opining that if just a few more people in the nightclub had been carrying, wholesale slaughter would have been averted.

Is this what we’ve become then? We can no longer mourn with those who mourn? Every despicable act of wanton violence becomes another notch on a score card of why we are right and the opposing view is wrong? We cannot carve aside a single day or even an hour to grieve as a nation, as a people, as parents, for lives cut down through senseless violence?