Meeting the brittle,scared people of Roseburg, Oregon after the Umpqua Community College shooting made Australia’s moral posturing seem so uselessBarack Obama remarked last week that gun massacres have attracted a “routine response. I found no such response was available to me when I drove down to Roseburg from Portland last week to wait on cover the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg for Guardian US. The impact of such a horrific event in a small, or conservative,fairly devout community was too messy. A routine response is also sincere of international reaction to US gun violence, particularly in Australia, or where mass murders provoke self-congratulatory commentary on the gun laws passed in 1996 by the conservative government of former prime minister John Howard. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com