Ban Santa Claus

In the wake of the shooting in CA where the distraught ex-husband showed up in a Santa suit and killed eight people and himself. Paul Helmke of the Brady Bunch, has finally gotten the expected vale-of-tears statement released.

"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and community touched by this terrible tragedy. It is profoundly sad that a distraught man would take up arms to kill his family and others. In this season of hope, however, we should not despair and say this kind of violence is inevitable. We should not tolerate the steady drumbeat of gun deaths and injuries that tears our families and communities apart. We can and should do all that is within our power to find solutions to gun violence. In the New Year, we hope that our nation's leaders have the courage and conviction to take steps that will help protect our families and communities from gun violence.

To which let me be the first to add:

"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and community touched by this terrible tragedy. It is profoundly sad that a distraught man would don a Santa suit to kill his family and others. In this season of hope, however, we should not despair and say this kind of violence, which we have also seen at Wal-Mart, is inevitable. We should not tolerate the steady drumbeat of Christmas deaths and injuries that tear our families and communities apart. We can and should do all that is within our power to find solutions to holiday violence. In the New Year, we hope that our nation's leaders have the courage and conviction to take steps that will help protect our families and communities from Santa Claus."

Which makes just as much sense as Helmke's diatribe. I would point out that all those people didn't get killed because one man had a gun, they died because ONLY one man had a gun.