We pause to feel and express our disgust. At the shooting of the children in Connecticut.

We machinate about the guns stashed and brandished around us.

Our politicians rail about those guns. They promise to pass new laws to take millions of them off the streets and out of the closets of America.

We thrash about ideas for identifying insanity in people. Before they strike others.

After all this and more…we return to the business of violence. The buying and selling of violence. The promoting of violence. The acceptance of violence.

Yes, I refer to the violence on our televisions. And the violence in our movies. And the violence in our computer games. Ho-hum. ‘Tis business as usual. We support violence with billions of our dollars.

How many of us wept at the footage of the children’s funerals, then took in a film filled with carnage at the mall?