See also, “it’s too soon to talk about gun control.”
And how about that peevish platitude “speak no ill of the dead.” Why some people parade this statement as unquestionably true is beyond me (probably has something to do with power). I suspect most of them have correspondingly little to say when “he was no angel” comes up in conversation.
ETA:
Aha, just realized now Mindysan brought this up in one of the queen-is-dead discussions,
