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These things do not happen without complicity and within a vacuum
While in a meeting on April 16 2007, Mr. Bush was informed that a shooting had occurred on the campus of Virginia Tech. Thirty students had been shot down by a gunman. He immediately halted the meeting; and an impromptu press conference was organized.
In contrast to his actions taken after the events of 9/11: While sitting in a class room in Sarasota Fl., the president received information regarding the worst terrorist attack in American history. He then got back to the business of reading to the children about the silly billy goat.
I would assume that most thinking persons would be able to appreciate the irony of the above-mentioned scenarios. It is not that Mr. Bush's handlers have become more savvy about handling these types of situations. This had nothing to do with national security.
Why would our exalted leader halt a
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When my father was 15 years old he could walk into K-Mart and buy a shotgun and as much ammo as he could carry, walk right out of the door with it.
The difference between then and now is not the quantity of guns available or the ease of purchasing them.
It is the mentality of the humans in possession of the guns, knifes, bats, pipes, and whatever else you can kill with, that has changed.
We do not want to talk about that, though.
If we opened up that can of worms we would all have to take a good long look at ourselves, and the choices we have made as a society.
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meeting, then hold a press conference for a shooting on a college campus, but continue reading after an event like 9/11? It makes no sense, unless, as a friend mentioned while we were watching the coverage of the school shooting, "he did not know in advance about this tragedy".
Another thing that chaps my ass about this school shooting, are the people getting all worked up about 33 people dying. How horrible it is and what a tragedy for our country, yes, of course it is. Yet, in our decadent, self-righteous bubble we are not incredulous when we personally have go into debt to foreign investors to pay for the very bullets and depleted uranium coated bombs that inflict this kind of nightmare on people in other counties, on a daily basis. Every day for over four years, we as a country have supported soldiers and mercenaries to bring hell to earth for tens of thousands of people.
Most of the viewers tuning into their televisions to watch the latest, "worst thing to happen ", since the last worst thing to happen, do not know anyone who was involved in this shooting. Yet they seem to care, it has some how effected their sense of security. It's closer to home, more real.
What they do not want to think about is the shared responsibility in creating that young man. Society is you and I, not an ethereal, nonentity detached from us. We as a group get the justice, dignity and responsibility from our elected leaders that we demand. Domestic and foreign policy shape our world, teach our children, structure their realities and set their moral compasses. The unfortunate truth is we are a reflection of our children.
People in far-away counties do not hate us because we are beautiful. Twenty-two-year-old kids don't shoot up the place because their girlfriend dumped them. These things do not happen without complicity and within a vacuum.
When my father was 15 years old he could walk into K-Mart and buy a shotgun and as much ammo as he could carry, walk right out of the door with it. The difference between then and now is not the quantity of guns available or the ease of purchasing them. It is the mentality of the humans in possession of the guns, knifes, bats, pipes, and whatever else you can kill with, that has changed.
We do not want to talk about that, though. If we opened up that can of worms we would all have to take a good long look at ourselves, and the choices we have made as a society.
We want people to be responsible for their actions, but we don't want the obligation to be applied to us.
Is it that difficult to believe this type of thing has happened again? The leaders we choose have an obligation to uphold the ethical standards of our collective will.
If you took the time to study what has truly been carried out by these people in the name of freedom and democracy, the shock of a kid with a handgun killing 33 people would vanish. It is not unbelievable or shocking at all, considering the life-long desensitization to an ever-increasingly violent, irresponsible, nonsensical culture. What types of humans are we expecting to produce from this crazy stew?
My sympathy goes out to all of the people affected by this messy reality.
I hope God cares, because we are going to need all the help we can get.
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