COLORADO SHOOTING: WHO IS TO BLAME?

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                            Marion Pellicano AmbroseEver since the first word of the tragic shooting at the Colorado theater hit theair, conservatives and liberals have been pointing fingers and crying “theirfault”. ABC News was just itching for a right wing connection, sothey found one of the many people named “James Holmes” in the Denver area who happens to have a Tea Partyconnection even though they didn’t know for sure if it was the murderer. Here’sthe conversation:

Stephanolpoulos:I’m going to go to Brian Ross. You’ve been investigating the background of JimHolmes here. You found something that might be significant.
Ross:There’s a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado, page on the Colorado Tea party siteas well, talking about him joining the Tea Party last year. Now, we don’t knowif this is the same Jim Holmes. But it’s Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado.
Stephanolpoulos:Okay, we’ll keep looking at that. Brian Ross, thanks very much.
Of course, it was a middle aged different “James Holmes”which ABC must have known, but they couldn’t resist taking the shot.Conservatives have jumped on the band wagon saying that theliberal media have allowed violent, dark movies like Batman to mentally damageyoung people like James Holmes, and that’s what caused him to go on hisshooting spree.  While I have to  agree that movies are way too violent andfilled with sex and deviant behavior these days, I don’t think that was the single,deciding factor that made this man murder 12 people and injure many more.

 As I switched from channel to channel, I heard about theneed for gun control and how NRA was to blame for the tragedy, how the schoolsystem has let society down and caused the situation, how parents have failedin raising their children. There were so many fingers pointing I couldn’t keeptrack of who was blaming who! (or is that whom?)
Anyway, I finally saw one person on TV who was makingperfect sense. He wasn’t pointing a finger or placing blame, although more thanalmost anyone, he had that right. He was the boyfriend of Jessica Ghawi, an aspiring young sportscasterwho was killed in the theater shooting. When the reporter attempted to have himtake a stand on the gun control issue, he refused and said all he wanted wasfor everyone to concentrate on the victims, on Jessica. He’s right. This isn’ta time for politics.  As both PresidentObama and Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney stated, this is a time for prayerand reflection. They both had the good sense and sensitivity to put politicsaside to mourn for the dead and comfort their families and the injured.
Perhaps in a fewdays, we can talk about gun control, violence in movies, and all the rest. Butnot today, today is for remembering.