We Have To Stop This Insanity

We Have To Stop This Insanity
Before We Forget

There I was, along with many Americans, glued to my TV Saturday night. It was the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner. Donald J. Trump, who wrote that “my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart,” never attended the Correspondents’ Dinner while he was president.

However, in 2011, President Obama was the keynote speaker at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The tradition was that the keynote speaker would roast several people. This is Obama roasting Trump.

When it was announced that our very stable genius was the keynote speaker for this year’s dinner, I had a glass of blackberry merlot on ice and a toasted asiago bagel, waiting for Trump’s speech. Given the opportunity to speak, I assumed that Trump would go on and on talking about how he forced the ending of eight wars, started two additional ones, and is considering Cuba. Perhaps, he is considering invading Greenland and annexing Canada again. Then there are the Epstein files. He’ll maintain that there’s nothing’ there. Someone in the Washington press corps needs to ask what he meant when he said that there’s nothin’ there.

I settled into what was going to be a long evening watching an hour-long venting by the president regarding those who mistreated him. Starting with President Obama, followed by some of the 600 other people that Trump wanted to get even with. But first the dinner.

The 2600 people at the White House Correspondents' Dinner hardly had their salads before chaos erupted. The Secret Service, FBI, and DEA suddenly were swarming all over the dais and the main floor.

As I watched the chaos, people who were normally calm and cool were traumatized. Most of them hide under the tables. Interesting, Rep. Raskin was seated at the same table as Kerry Kennedy, the sister of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. During the massive panic attack that occurred, Raskin protected Kennedy with his body.

This video is of Alex Witt's interview with Kerry Kennedy right after the arrest of the shooter. The complete interview is at the end of the article.

Read Kennedy’s comment about what she thought while being protected by Raskin.

Just think about all these children, kindergarteners, who are experiencing the same thing in their schools in our country...Why? There's no reason for this, and that's something that doesn't happen in other countries — it just doesn't happen. It's all about access to guns. I mean, we have to stop this insanity in our country with allowing anybody and everybody to buy guns and make it so easy for them to buy guns. You know, there are more gun dealers than there are McDonald's in our country. We've got to stop this.

I agree. We do need to stop this insanity. However, it has been only a couple of days since the shooting. We remember the incident like remembering the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. The next time there is a shooting in an elementary school or in a shopping center, someone will say that we need to stop this insanity, ad infinitum.

This is the complete interview by Alex Witt, several minutes after the shooting, at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.