The gun folks say many have and don't kill.
The mental health folks say many have mental illness and don't kill.
The movie makers say many watch and don't kill.
The video game makers say many play and don't kill
The pharmaceutical makers say many take and don't kill.
They said the same after the last mass shooting- and will say again after the next one.
They just want to call the killer "evil' - want to kill him - and keep making money on the culture of death.
Editors' note: this column originally appeared at the Daily Beast.
After the grisly massacre in Colorado no one will attend weekend showings of The Dark Knight Rises with expectations of a rollicking, uplifting, feel-good night at the movies. But even before its association with horrifying images of real-life mass murder, this final installment in the current Batman series suffered from serious deficiencies in terms of its fun factor. It’s wrong to suggest that the movie provoked the killings in its midnight Aurora premiere, but those crimes do, in a sense, expose the nihilistic darkness at the heart of the film...
the good uses of guns outweighs the criminal misuses.