America loves guns they're fun. Is what everyone is thinking today right?

So it's been over a month since the State of the Union Address; I know I'm a little tardy to the party on this one but I worked hard on it and with all the other things I've got going on, it tends to take quite a bit of time to do an analysis this extensive of an hour-long speech.  It was Obama's first State of the Union (SotU) since winning re-election, which is a huge moment for any president.  You no longer have to worry about being re-elected and you have four years ahead of you to do all the difficult things you really came here to do.  That being said, it comes as no surprise that if I could choose only one word to describe the 2013 State of the Union, it would be "ambitious."  There was a lot of stuff we had all heard many times before--stuff that was straight out of campaign speeches such as the themes of growing the middle class and income inequality.  But there was also a lot of stuff we hadn't heard before, at least not from Obama.  Let...

" What's most horrifying is that this is becoming normal. Everything about this is becoming normal." -My friend Raziq I couldn't say it better myself.  Here we are again.  27 dead today at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut.  20 of them children.  Then come the screaming arguments over gun control. "Repeal the Second Amendment!" says one. "Over my dead body!" says another. "Gun violence is out of control!" "Guns don't kill people, people do!" Rinse.  Repeat. Such anger- and fear-driven responses to tragedy inhibit legitimate conversation and debate as much as anything else.  I myself have been guilty of much misdirected anger toward those I love today.  It's only human.  We're all angry and we're all afraid.   Both sides are quick to construct straw men to burn in effigy: "Those hatemongers won't stop clinging to their guns!" "Those bleeding heart liberals want to destr...