{"id":314,"date":"2007-04-20T21:12:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T05:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2007\/04\/20\/massacre-shmassacre\/"},"modified":"2007-04-20T21:12:07","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T05:12:07","slug":"massacre-shmassacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/massacre-shmassacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Massacre Shmassacre"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Colombine thing was much more compelling, in my opinion. Was it the trench coats or maybe that high school lunatics are more poignant than college lunatics? It was a better story all around, and the current shooter guy can\u2019t eclipse it with mere numbers.<\/p>\n

Or maybe it\u2019s the numbers that dull the impact. I read a study<\/a> that examined how one\u2019s tendency to feel empathy for a victim starts to plummet when the number of victims reaches 5. Shocking but true, isn\u2019t it? Stalin\u2018s quote was, “One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.”<\/p>\n

My best friend told me that the people in her office are going around saying \u201cAmercia has to begin to heal,\u201d as though we\u2019re all in shock about the shootings. I doubt that any of those office people feels anything beyond a vague curiosity, and a strong desire to not get caught calling the Cho guy an \u201cAsian\u201d or \u201cKorean,\u201d since we\u2019re not supposed to notice his ethnicity.<\/p>\n

I just want to get back to last week and Don Imus! I wasn\u2019t through with \u00a0the whole nappy-headed ho uproar, not by a long shot. Actually, I wasn\u2019t even through with Larry Burkhead and Virgie.<\/p>\n

Things happen too fast these days, and there\u2019s no public attention span unless OJ is involved. If OJ would only shoot three or four kids in Darfur, I think we\u2019d see a real burst of interest, from Larry King at least.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I\u2019m even more not interested in the new evidence in the Skakel murder case. Move on, godammit, that guy is guilty as charged, and America has already healed over that one.<\/p>\n

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