Aurora's no Columbine, Sanford no Selma

Hi, Wallace:  Thank you for stopping by, and for your comment.  Although "Mr. Brawley" wasn't here this wekend, his hand was all over the goings-on.  And the craziest part of everything?  The folks that play up to him ad his fellow hustlers act for the cameras, yet disappear when they're gone.  For instance, they held yet another march here yesterday.  I had 4 showings in the area- 2 in Sanford, 2 in nearby Lake Mary, and I had to check the march route to make sure I wouldn't get caught up in it.  Turned out that wasn't really necessary, though- as the big march drew about 50 people.  Guess there weren't enough cameras there.  Follows suit with the "Stand Your Ground" hearings, though:  a rally outside the hearing here drew hundreds of people and their signs, but inside where I and about 20 others testified, the others were nowhere to be found.  As I've said all along, I'm in favor of any fair "Stand Your Ground" review.  What the race hustlers have trouble dealing with, though, is the fact that the general public is solidly against them:  State-wide, 65% say the law should remain unchanged, 16% favor modification and 18% favor repeal.  Here in this area alone, though, it's even worse:  65% say leave it alone, 18% modify and only 16% favor repeal.    That repeal option, favored by the NAACP and others that want the "duty to retreat" re-instated- is wildly unpopular.  One would never know that from the media coverage of things, though.

Hi, Charles:  Thank you for stopping by, and for your comment.  In the interests of disclosure, I would say I fall in line with more of the Tea Party's issues than not.  I've never attended a rally, though.  That said, it's been painfully clear from Day One that folks desperately want to find any examples of Tea Party racism that they possibly can.  Their problem, though, is that they have never, ever been able to produce a single piece of video that supports Tea Party racism.  No evidence of anyone shouting racial slurs, none of anything of the sort.  I figure I agree with most in that there's a serious problem when those trusted with the reporting of the news choose to make the news.

Hi, Jon:  Thank you for dropping by, and for your comment.  I suppose "politicize" is a good term here- though some folks and causes have gotten so predictable that I wonder if the term still applies to things so routine.  Gun control advocates looking to blame the Aurora tragedy on guns?  Hardly a shocker.  But it does still seem odd, though, how those seekng to get guns off the street give so much credit and so little blame to the folks commit these Aurora-type crimes..