Death & Innocence & the Future of Democracy
Christina McNight wrote over at her blog , following the Tucson shootings: While I am beyond horrified at the killing of a nine year old girl – BEYOND HORRIFIED – I am equally as horrified at the people who seem to think that she was the only innocent person who was injured or killed that day. ALL of the people in the parking lot on Saturday were innocent. NONE of them had “done anything”. Her words got me thinking. This has always been my reaction to other events involving the death of young children--that it was tragic, yes, and that they were innocent, yes, but that there are a lot of tragic deaths and everyone is innocent. Yet with Christina Taylor Greene, I've responded tragically. Christina is right that nobody in that parking lot had done anything that made them deserve to get shot, and all of the deaths were tragic. But I've responded to Christina Taylor Greene's death in a way I've never responded to any other similarly publicized tragedy....