Just fucking lovely:
NEW ORLEANS — Gunmen opened fire on dozens of people marching in a neighborhood Mother's Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding at least 19 people.
The shooting shattered the festive mood surrounding the parade that drew hundreds of people to the 7th Ward neighborhood of modest row houses not far from the French Quarter. Cell phone video taken in the aftermath of the shooting shows victims lying on the ground, blood on the pavement and others bending over to help or comfort them.
The FBI said the shooting appeared to be "street violence" and wasn't linked to terrorism.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/12/new-orleans-parade-shooting_n_3264033.html
Sigh . . . . Gun goonery at a Mom's Day Parade.
The Gadfly was going to ask the obvious question of whether anything is sacred any more but then it dawned on The Gadfly that this is a country which cannot even collectively decide whether or not the wholesale slaughter of sweet, innocent, unsuspecting toddlers in their classroom was an over the line event.
Our culture is sick and The Gadfly does not harbor much hope that American society has the sense of decency and moral courage to do much, if anything, about it.
----TFG
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