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I just wanted to thank Dan Savage for writing such a pointed and honest piece about the Columbine tragedy [May 14]. Over the past month, we have all been inundated with the blatherings of Hollywood moguls, the saccharine platitudes of senators, the cold, reptilian disavowals of responsibility of CEOs, and the psychobabble of mental-health “experts.” All in all, it has been an insincere and clumsy tiptoe around the central issues surrounding the tragedy made largely by the people who were themselves tormentors and bullies of high school.
In any case, I want to simply thank Dan Savage for having the temerity to address the issue on its most basic and important terms. Savage put forth a piece that promotes true discourse rather than sniveling, sententious pleas for “morality” and “decency.” The mindless barrage of swill the media has offered of late is better left for women’s-auxiliary meetings, Rotary Club banquets, and other similar organizations that cater to shortsighted and thoroughly cretinous intellects.
