Comrade Kyra Gaunt posted the following on her Facebook page:
“The Governor of CT said ‘Evil visited this community today.’ We always evoke the notion that ‘evil’ is around us or caused X when we don’t want to take responsibility for the sociological interconnectedness of us all and of all things. Don’t be misled by the abdication of responsibility.”

The use of the word “evil” by Connecticut’s governor to describe the shooting seemed odd to me too. When I think of evil I think of Darth Vader. We may like to believe that shooting another person, a child no less, is the work of a supernatural evil, a poltergeist, if you will. The gun violence that occurred at Sandy Hook elementary school and in that Aurora movie theater and at New Life Church and on the streets of Chicago and New Orleans are committed by people against other people. There is no evil gold ring possessing the minds of these people. There’s no “this doesn’t happen here” with the implication that it happens only to “them.” There is no them. There is just us and a looming, rarely addressed problem of mental illness combined with American culture’s fixation with violence and an easy access to semi-automatic guns and rifles. We need to speak up and at the very least ban semiautomatic weapons. No one in Newtown, Connecticut or in Detroit, Michigan needs this type of weaponry.

http://thehotness.com/2012/12/16/when-children-die/