Today was a terribly sad day in our country. My condolences to the families of the children who were terrorized, injured and murdered today in Colorado and a few weeks ago in Minnesota. I am deeply saddened by the tragic and preventable violence. The response was more of the same. Until it wasn’t.
The big takeaways from Minnesota – never miss an opportunity to punch down on an entire community based on the actions of one person. Any information is good information, even if it’s bad, intentionally bad, harmful or hateful. Truth is irrelevant. It’s more important to strike while the iron is hot than to concern oneself with the truth.
The big takeaways from Colorado. I couldn’t tell you because nobody’s talking about it. Why? Could be that nobody really cares anymore unless there is an underlying opportunity. Maybe it is that people mistakenly accept school shootings as part of life. There’s a chance that not enough kids died for it to be shocking. Perhaps a combination of the above.
The most likely possibility is that we had a newer, shinier, better act of targeted violence. The target a young, white, heterosexual, Christian, wealthy, conservative, political personality. He was also a human being, a husband, a father and a public facing person who was in public when he was murdered. Nobody deserves that. It is not a crime to be opinionated or making a career out of it.
Way more interesting than a bunch of kids. Tragic. Awful. His murder was seen by millions of people. This is Mecca for opportunists’ and nirvana for the vultures and bottom feeders who will gladly capitalize on the fear and pain that people are experiencing over this. It’s not every day that you see someone get murdered on live stream.
There is more to say but now is not the time.