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Originally Posted by Augi
Oh, Superman where are you now? When everything's gone wrong somehow? How do we stop this? How do we get into the mind that justifies these bloody actions? Where do we start? How does it end?
We are always left with these questions. We think there will be another answer if we look a little harder. We convince ourselves, "There must be a motive." What happens when it is this time that there was no motive. There was no reason. There was no justification.
We could just as easily call it insanity. What if it was not even that?
Is this the world we live in? |
To further clarify my post... let's say that instead of school shootings, that these were indeed car bombs a la Middle East. They do end up killing 5-10 passersby every time they go off, and there is no warning beforehand. How would the American response be different, if these shootings were perceived as a terrorist threat? Why are these shootings NOT labeled terrorist, even though that's exactly what they are? Is it because they have no political motive, and therefore they can be brushed off like any other sad headline in the news?
How many school shootings will it take before Americans start to think, "Oh, wait, the greatest threat to our safety is actually happening HERE, on our own soil, at the hands of our own insane people, with our guns in their hands?" I'm rambling, but these are the questions that come to mind.