Too Much To Ask

SO NOW WE KNOW: if you want to rally public support for a cause, just fuel the jet, load up the victims from some tragedy of the week, fly them to washington, parade them around town.

Works like a charm. Reportedly the newtown victim's families swayed the united states congress to open debate on a gun control bill. Rumor has it that one thinned skin conservative shed tears.

and all this is well and good, merely reminding us that humans are far more susecptible to sensory stimulation than pure thought or reason. Coulda saved a bundle on jet fuel and hotel bills footed by we the tazpayers, but, what the heck.

one wonders whether stationing the same victim's families around the floors of the house and senate might bring about passage of the  weak bill under consideration, or even of some spartan, no nonsense firearms control. We'll never know; even obama wouldn't go that far...would he?

You'd like to think we could all get together and through a process of series community deliberation and dialogue arrive at a consensus concerning the cause of our perpetual national nightmare, and a 
sane plan to solve it.

But that just might be too much to ask, mighten it...