“
This is a total irrelevance. This has nothing
at all to do with what happened. Had the flag not existed or not been on
the grounds of the Capitol, this massacre would have happened in any
case. But it’s the standard liberal impulse: ‘Something happened really
bad, so there’s gotta be a problem, and there has to be a solution. We
must do something,’ even if the ‘something’ is entirely irrelevant.”
“Gun
control being the second example here, because had all the laws Obama
wanted to pass passed, it would have made no difference whatsoeve. But that’s instinct: Don’t just stand there, do something,
when Reagan advised, ‘Don’t just do something, stand there.’ “ --Charles Krauthammer 06.22.15 [Fox News Sunday]
