Christmas in July

“Now is not the time to talk about that.”  I wish I had a dollar for every time I have heard those words or similar words or even the lack of words over the last week.  With a few exceptions from the usual suspects, that is the political response in the wake of the Aurora theatre shootings. Of course this is not the time, because there has been no time for that in recent years. And there won’t be a good time in the years ahead, no matter how many nuts get their fingers on deadly triggers.

Mike Collins

July 25, 2012