Reaction to this morning’s shootings at the Washington Navy Yard are running pretty much as you expect them to: most people are concerned and frightened and interested to know more details, and the cable television news is falling all over itself to bring you the very latest on this BREAKING STORY but generally not helping clear up the confusion that’s only to be expected immediately after an event of this sort. (Wolf Blitzer, I’m talking to you.) The pro-gun/anti-gun rhetoric that’s followed all the recent major shootings is no doubt on its way; this morning from his Twitter account David Frum gave us all a head start:
Let’s just wait and see: I bet Frum’s suggestions are pretty close to what we’ll see and hear in the next few days. It’s sad to think that we’re not capable of any more constructive civic discussion than this…or are we?
Oh, there’s one more thing:
HEY, IT'S PAT RYAN'S BLOG! 
Thanks for that last bit. I really needed the laugh: http://iwanticewater.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/hello-darkness-my-old-friend/
It can never be said enough that if all those victims had been armed and had guns drawn this could have all been avoided.