[smokingfrog]

"Entertainment" television and the news media thrives on stuff like this, so they probably do consider it a tragedy. It should be called a senseless or horrific crime.

On the other hand, if 0bama gets elected, it will be a catastrophe.

[JennysCool]

Hey, Newbie: Your somehow equating Obama with this dispicable act is completely wrongheaded and not the sort of analysis that belongs on Free Republic, IMO. We’re better than that.

[Aquabird]

Tragedy actually refers to a person agonizing about what they have done. Tragedy does not mean ‘something bad’.

A child getting hit by a car is not a tragedy. However, if the mother wasn’t paying attention, and holding the dead child in her arms she mourns and agonizes about what has occurred, then it is tragic.

9/11 isn’t a tragedy. But the realization that it could have been prevented IS.

[count-your-change]

At least you chose a suitably suggestive name. As for the snide remark about the “clumsy retarded kid”, he’d have far more grace and wit than someone who would call themselves “bloggerrrhea”.