"Echoes of the NRA's insurrectionist rhetoric can be heard from the leaders of the gun activists who plan to converge on Washington, D.C. on April 19, a date with great emotional resonance for the "gun rights" movement and, for different reasons, for the rest of us. It is both the anniversary of Lexington/Concord and of the tragic federal assault on the David Koresh compound in Waco, Texas in 1993. It also is the anniversary of what was, to that date, the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history - Timothy McVeigh's 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City."
From Dennis A. Henigan of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence (www.BradyCenter.org) via the Huffington Post (Link to original post here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-a-henigan/gun-rights-and-political_b_530253.html)
Unfortunately, coincidentally, tragically, to me, anyway, it is also the date my Mom was born.
It was one more reason to resent Timothy McVeigh's cowardly, stupid, irresponsible, ugly actions that day in Oklahoma City.
It would be nice if, one day soon--today?--the ignorance of what Timothy McVeigh did that day were a lesson for the Right Wing extremists of today.
As I so frequently say here, hey, I can dream, can't I?
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