We are comfortable to demand for change following some tragedies but not others. That is hypocrisy (Pretending to have feelings, beliefs, or virtues that one does not have.)
Following Thursday night’s shooting in a Lafayette,Louisiana, film theater, and Governor Bobby Jindal told people: “What we can achieve now is pray.” He told them today that we can pray. He will tell them tomorrow that they can pray. And then next time this happens,he will tell them again. The repetition is inevitable because this is what happens when the first response and the only response is the final resort.
Jindal spoke of the desperation we feel “when there’s no genuine proper reason why this evil should intrude on the lives of families just out for a night of entertainment.” He is a master of gallows humor. Because between the idea and reality, the motion and act, or falls the shadow of systemic inaction. As if these killers acted without tools,and as if people like Bobby Jindal achieve not labor to make those tools both widely available and unaccountable, ghosts within the system just as instantaneously as their victims become. Bobby Jindal has already decided that nothing else can be done — indeed, or that God himself divinely ordained an inerrant amended parchment to forbid anything else to be done. So what we can achieve now is pray.
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Source: theguardian.com