Naked Eye

What’s the worst thing you’ve ever seen?  Don’t think about this too long.  The worst you’ve ever seen.

Now, is that image worse or better than the image of a child who has been shot at close range with a semi-automatic weapon?

Michael Moore’s suggestion that photos of the Sandy Hook victims should be released is being criticized, and Fox News, of course, is stating that the Sandy Hook parents object.  But we know that may not be uniformly true because one mother took the governor by the hand and led him to her son’s casket. Fox couldn't reach that parent.

When I saw victims of drunk drivers at the state medical examiner’s office in Louisville, and when I sat at my microscope at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center diagnosing lung cancer, I often thought, if only everybody could see this. Seeing is believing there should be a change. Seeing firsthand is sensing the gravity of the problem, sensing it right down to your curling toes. 

If legislators could see victims of mass slayings with a naked eye, would they be more inclined to ban assault weapons?  That’s an interesting question that Veronique Pozner posed before Michael Moore.  But given the averted massacre at the University of Central Florida this week, it’s a question I hope we can answer sooner rather than later.

With my naked eye/

I saw all if I said it all/

I could see

“Naked Eye,” Jill Cunniff