Mass Shootings Should Be
Discussed In Presidential Debates
There
seems to be a serious disconnect between our major challenges and the
presidential debates. Gun control, ever-increasing mass shootings and the
turmoil in the Middle East are appropriate topics but they have not been
discussed with intelligent probing and vigor.
I am most
interested in hearing what Clinton Trump and others would say about guns and
violence. Nowadays there are credible questions about some of the mass shootings
such as December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton Connecticut.
Of course
we all watched it on television and read the papers so any questions about the
authenticity of what we observed could
be dismissed as provocation or troublemaking. To tell you truth I myself
was a skeptic of those questions until recently until I read” Nobody Died at
Sandy Hook” by Prof. Fetzer, Mike Palecek and some eight scholars.
In my own
little circle what I observed was very informative. My own friends and family
members did not wish to hear such nonsense. Of course I yielded. And wondered
why. My guess is ,a deception of this magnitude so huge shatters our basic
paradigm of America, Free Press and governmental integrity. Such a possibility
is so incredibly frightening even the slightest attempt to probe the topic is
viewed as hostile and offensive. The end of discussion.
The book
offered compelling evidence that the Sandy Hook elementary school was closed
and not operational on December 14, 2012. Photos of the alleged evacuation of
kids were posted on YouTube the day before the shooting. Obama administration quietly
acknowledged that it was a drill to promote guncontrol. Several photographic
alterations were both obvious and clumsy such as the photo of Parker family and
teacher Soto.
Perhaps
Prof. Fetzer and his colleagues are wrong. It is still a worthy debate for
America.
I still believe our presidential candidates
must answer the questions raised by the book.
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