Over 100 police officers responded to the scene in Aurora, just a few miles from Columbine High School, where in 1999 two high school students killed 12 fellow students and one teacher in a rampage that also injured 21 other students. That school massacre became a milestone in the nation’s legacy of violence. Now, yet another Denver suburb joins that tragic list.
The short of it: a lone gunman burst into a crowded theater, deployed canisters of what was believed to be tear gas, and opened fire on the innocent moviegoers with a shotgun, a rifle, and two handguns, murdering 12 and wounding 58.
Then unfortunately, as with the 2011 Tuscon shooting, more fuel was dumped atop the horror, courtesy of our modern American liberal media (and cohorts). Along with much of everything these days, the nation once again endured the atrocious behavior of far too many on the Left who began politicizing this senseless, murderous act. First with Piers Morgan and 'Nanny' Bloomberg, along with the White House, jumping on that old familiar gun control bandwagon, like clockwork in the wake of a tragedy. Then came ABC News' Brian Ross and George Stephanolpoulos showing their true colors, and echoing the same incendiary media response of the Tuscon shooting, by attempting to once again go right to blaming conservatives, specifically laying blame on the Tea Party, with what apparently passes for investigative reporting these days (i.e., jumping to their subjectively biased conclusions). Of course the hate-filled Hollywood hags and George Soros minions eventually jumped on board as well with their irrelevant opinions. By the end of the day, it had been one exhausting and emotional day, compounded by all this crap...
Fortunate for us, we had Levin's take on it by the evening to reinforce a normal, rational response...
"Most of us, when something as tragic as what happened in Aurora this morning takes place, our hearts go out to the dead, to the families, to those who are injured. We want to know who they are. We want to know who did this. We want to know why it was done and so forth. Some of us say a prayer. What most of us don't do is search for political scapegoats. And the scapegoats seem to always be the same. US."
Levin says it's time to call the media out...
"You know, as a nation, we have a right to have 24 - 48 hours of mourning for our fellow citizens. There needs to be respect for the dead and prayers for the living. There needs to be a point at which the hounds are called off, at least for a day or two, but apparently not. When you have rogue, politically motivated reporters...trying to turn this into yet another disgusting attack on the Tea Party...it doesn't get any lower than that. Boy, these people hate us, don't they? I mean, they really hate us."
"Now what can we do as a people...in response to such a horrendous crime? I'll tell you what we can do. Shut off our TVs, go to a quiet place and say a prayer for these people... And let the idiots on cable tv talk to themselves. You don't need to watch this. Let them debate among themselves; let the idiots who anchor morning TV shows talk in circles among themselves, bring on politicians and political advocates telling you why your rights should be curtailed. These people don't shed any light on anything. They have agendas, so don't frustrate yourself, don't upset yourself in that regard. Focus on what matters."
"There is no politician to blame for this, ladies and gentlemen. Not Barack Obama, not Romney...this guy did this. It's not about guns; it's not about America. It's about him doing this to some wonderful, beautiful people."
I previously mentioned an excerpt from Albert Mohler's article, one of which I'm certain many of the Christian faith might find well worth the read. I thought it worth mentioning a portion of his conclusion to wrap this discussion up...
We must grieve with those who grieve. We must pray for Gospel churches in the Denver area who will be called upon for urgent ministry. We must pray for our nation and communities. And we must pray that God will guard ourselves from evil — especially our own evil.
Of course there will be a vast range of emotions experienced when these kind of heinous acts occur, it's only natural. But ultimately, we must at least attempt to cope with these atrocities with genuine compassion for the victims, with the appropriate justice in mind for the perpetrator, with reason, with faith...but not with political scapegoats. This kind of evil will never be legislated away.
