TUCSON

THIS WILL BE A NAME NOT EASILY FORGOTTEN.The tragic events that transpired over the few minutes will be analyzed and be subject to careful scrutiny to try to prevent such a event taking place again. American history has been built on tragic events and there will be more in the future.The freedoms that make the USA a great country also allows individual freedom to commit such acts.

There will be the usual call for more and closer gun control, closer security for government officials and a number of other measures that will make life safer and better for all. The whole country wept when hearing of this tragic event and the leaders came together to praise the dead and lift the spirits of the living. I would give these same people a week before they are back to the same reckless, demeaning rhetoric which poisons the minds of nearly everyone towards political leaders and the youth of the country close their ears and minds to the political process.

In this free society where every day there are radio programs dedicated to the destruction of the political party in power and spew half truths over the airways to bring down the system , how can we expect respect for the institutions which oversee this country.I read editorials every day calling for servility and co-operation to try to make the system work but within weeks of elections the newly elected members become part of the old system with devastating results.

Tucson will be used by many to further their causes but this tragic event was the result of one deranged person capable of bringing down Innocent people and he did just that. We do not have to have long memories to count similar happenings and recalling the attempts at harming our leaders reads like the history of American Politics. For we who abhor violence and prefer rhetoric to guns feel sad for America today but we also realize that as long as we wish to honour our freedoms,  events like Tucson will occur again.We must change the tone of or rhetoric to offer a calmer and more wholesome environment to show the world that we live in a great nation.