To recap: Because some deranged lunatic just shot up a college campus in a way never before witnessed in America, candidate Obama thinks we need to use the occasion to reflect on Imus and pensions and the minimum wage and stuff.
By the same ridiculous standard, one finds there's also a "violence" in big-government blowhards immediately seeking to capitalize politically on the slaughter of innocent college students. "It's not necessarily physical violence," but what should we call it when someone perpetrates on us a disgusting analogy that compares hate speech, job loss to outsourcing, losing health insurance, taking a minimum wage job, poor education, lack of "hope," etc. to real, horrific violence?
Also by the same standard, this May 6 will mark the 70th anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster. I hope that the memory of it causes us to reflect a little more broadly on the degree to which we do accept gasbags in various forms all the time in our society.