Re: CT elementary school shooting.
It is indeed intolerable Greg.
It was in Dunblane as well. I remember feeling the same way seeing the photo below and feeling the same degree of rage and frustration. Back then my oldest girl was a kindergartner and those little, happy faces, conjuring up feelings of joy, love and eagerness hit home.
The tasks before those of us who want to end the depravity, predation, cruelty, madness, indifference and terror these children experienced ( as well as that of our society) over the last 50 years, is enormous. Thus, the straw man "Gun Violence" is the logical, lazy, focal point.
Never mind the death cult that permeates our society and the open saturation of tolerance for savagery. It is not a small concern to me that we have become completely detached from outrage over acts that would have appalled our grandparents.
They were not rubes: they simply had not been bombarded and spoon fed horse shit nor would they have tolerated the open abandonment of responsibility, deferred gratification and redefinition of monstrosities in the name of prolonging them for the profit of those who benefit from them or consume them.
Does anyone still think the euphemistic "White-Out" of over 40,000,000 abortions since 1973 has had no effect? The destruction of the African American family in order to create a monolithic voting block? The advocacy for even more dumbasses to buy shit products; AKA Marijuana legalization...
Yeah, we have some huge problems here that create far more than one or two maniacs who seem to think nothing of making a name for their pathetic lives by attacking completely innocent (And almost certain to be defenseless) people.
What are we doing about the criminals, maniacs, idiots and assholes?
I will not be distracted from this by being forced to look at the bright shiny gun.
And make no mistake, when the photos of these beautiful children, murdered by a monster, are made available, I will see in their faces my own children as well.
I too am outraged but I won't allow myself to be stampeded by those I believe are truly responsible for the nihilism and double talk that caused this.