Have we all become so jaded that this doesn't get remarked upon? In the last week alone, FOUR public killings:
I just ran across news of another public shoting, this one at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge. A woman shot and killed 2 students and then killed herself.
http://news.yahoo.com/...
Yesterday a man killed 6 at a City Council meeting near St. Louis.
This fellow just killed his current girlfriend and then stabbed and shot his ex-wife in front of her class full of kids:
http://www.wkyc.com/...
On Feb 2, 5 women were killed at a Lane Bryant store outside Chicago.
Where is the outcry?
I'm living in Montreal for the time being, and the contrast couldn't be more palpable. I watch CNN from time to time up here, and I see these stories get a lot of play for a few hours, but it seems if the body count isn't in the double digits, the stories have no legs--and God forbid anyone suggest that something is massively wrong with a culture in which people seem to feel it's their God-given right not just to settle scores with a gun, but to shoot it out in public places.
It's the goddam Wild West!
And god bless John McCain, swooning about his support for the 2nd amendment and the surge to a roomful of dubious conservatives.
Am I man enough for you? Bloody enough?
I've heard the saying that a people gets the government it deserves. I have never thought that to be true--it just doesn't seem fair. However, given our addiction to terrorizing the rest of the world with the threat of our military, is this just a reflection of a similar mindset in our own personal lives--or is it the public violence which we greet with yawns that inures us to the nature of the violence we inflict and threaten to inflict on the rest of the world?
Our country is MAD.
I am simply stunned at the moment by the entitlement Americans seem to feel about killing others when they're angry.
We have got to rein ourselves in overseas, and see about some GUN CONTROL at home as well.
Why don't the Dem candidates show some leadership on this? Oh right--it's political suicide...
Let the slaughter continue.