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RAND SIMBERG: Giffords Shooting: Don?t Just Do Something ? Stand There. ?No, the solution to t?

By Glenn Reynolds

RAND SIMBERG: Giffords Shooting: Don?t Just Do Something ? Stand There. “No, the solution to this problem is to recognize that there is no solution to this problem, at least one acceptable to Americans, and to be thankful that with the millions of guns in the land, it happens so seldom. That?s what makes it news, unlike (say) Mexico, where the assassination of a politician in the drug wars is hardly worthy of mention any more. Like the rest of us, our politicians and public officials aren?t immortal, and there is no safety this side of the dirt. While I?ve had my differences with her on space policy, from what I know of Gabrielle Giffords, when she gets well, I suspect that she?s going to go out to the next town meeting, worrying no more about a repeat occurrence than she does about a meteorite strike. And that?s what the rest of us, who aren?t prone to use every tragic event to shove our political agendas down other peoples throats, should do as well.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 09, 2011 (boomark / email).