RIP Charlton Heston

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Okay, I'll bite, let's be pedantic about one word.

It's mockery to me.

I still don't see how it is mockery. I hate using the dictionary definition, but I had to (to make sure that I wasn't going crazy)

mock·er·y –noun, plural -er·ies.

1. ridicule, contempt, or derision.
2. a derisive, imitative action or speech.
3. a subject or occasion of derision.
4. an imitation, esp. of a ridiculous or unsatisfactory kind.
5. a mocking pretense; travesty: a mockery of justice.
6. something absurdly or offensively inadequate or unfitting.

Other than #6 ("offensively unfitting" would be my guess), I can't see where the word fits in. But even then, I would still wholeheartedly disagree.

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

He could postpone the meeting without seeming to cater to the wills of someone he disagrees with. It's done all the time. Postponing is not giving in.

The NRA canceled all events (normally several days of committee meetings, sporting events, dinners, and rallies) save the annual members' voting meeting -- that could not be canceled because the state law governing nonprofits required that it be held. [Their attorney had advised there was way to change location, since under NY law you have to give 10 days' advance notice of that to the members, or hold the meeting anyway and vote on it, there were upwards of 4,000,000 members -- and Columbine happened 11 days before the scheduled meeting.] Source (but the basic facts are in a lot of places)

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

And Columbine was not just any crime. It was a huge deal. Maybe not to some but to a majority of the country.

And no one is disputing that. I certainly hope that you don't believe that Charlton Heston nor the NRA nor any other rational person in this country believes otherwsie.