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" Columbine wasn&amp;#039;t enough. Virginia Tech wasn&amp;#039;t enough. Aurora wasn&amp;#039;t enough. Hell, Clackamas only was a little over a week ago, and it wasn&amp;#039;t enough. Don&amp;#039;t worry, though, America. Some people do have their limits. It seems that a horrific event in which a mentally unbalanced young man living in a house full of advanced personal weaponry decides to ventilate his mom, drive to a elementary school, shoot his way in, and turn a quiet suburban neighborhood into My Lai 4 represents to thought leaders like Joe Scarborough and Senator Joe Manchin all&amp;#039;s they can stand and they can&amp;#039;t stands no more! &amp;quot;Never before have we seen our babies slaughtered,&amp;quot; the senator said. &amp;quot;Anybody that&amp;#039;s a proud gun owner, anybody that&amp;#039;s a proud member of the NRA, we&amp;#039;re also proud parents. We&amp;#039;re also proud grandparents.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Babies&amp;quot; are slaughtered every day in Chicago and New Orleans and the streets of Boston, because this country is awash in profitable firearms, but never mind. And how anyone can be a &amp;quot;proud member&amp;quot; of the NRA this morning is beyond my ken. But if Senator Joe wants to convince me this change of mind is anything but a tentative nod toward what he thinks might be a changing political reality regarding guns \u2014 and, to me, that&amp;#039;s still really up in the air \u2014 then here&amp;#039;s what he can do. He can call a press conference today and announce that he is resigning from the NRA unless and until Wayne LaPierre and the rest of the executive board is fired, and unless and until the organization ceases to create through its mailings and its rhetoric a universe of armed paranoia in the land, and unless and until the NRA stops aiding and abetting \u2014 and profiting from \u2014 the continued existence and propagation of that paranoia. Then I&amp;#039;ll believe him. Oh, and if he publicly apologized for that idiotic commercial wherein he shot cap-and-trade legislation with his personal shootin&amp;#039; &amp;#039;arn, that would be nice, too. As for Scarborough, well, it seems he&amp;#039;s offering a little Beltway horse trading here. If you crack down on video games, I&amp;#039;ll consider cracking down on guns. Nice to have you aboard, Joe. Now sit down. examine your conscience for past sins, and then shut up while the people who have been doing the real work on this issue for the 20 years in which you were carrying water for the gun industry go about their business again. Maybe you should talk to a doctor named Judy Palfrey in Boston, who has been fighting your former BFFs on this issue since 1991, when you were just preparing to come to Congress for the purpose of chasing Bill Clinton&amp;#039;s penis all around the Beltway, because one of her patients, a 11-year old boy named Charles Copney was shot down in a crossfire between drug gangs that were very well-armed because this is America and FREEEEDOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!! (Palfrey was the subject of a column by the great Kevin Cullen in The Boston Globe on Sunday which is, alas, behind the paper&amp;#039;s paywall. but from which most of the rest of this post is drawn.) Palfrey became president of the American Academy Of Pediatricians, in which capacity she led the organization to propose a law that would require pediatricians to ask their patients if there were guns in their homes. In your home state of Florida, Joe, the legislature passed a law that would have made it a crime for pediatricians to ask those very reasonable questions. (I think it might have been a decent question to ask, say, seven-year old Adam Lanza, to name one.) The pediatricians took the law to court. They finally won last year. Have Judy Palfrey on your show, Joe. Apologize to her and then shut up and listen, because it&amp;#039;s not just the weapons, it&amp;#039;s also the legal and cultural effort to render unacceptable any attempt to control or analyze the effect of having this many guns on the street. Pediatricians are not the shock troops of the New World Order.  I am sorry to be cynical, but I decline to be otherwise for a while. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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