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| In memory of the six senselessly lost in another mass shooting on 3/27/23. |
I wrote and published two others in newspapers about the shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado and at Westwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas in 1999.
In addition to those columns/blogs I've published since '99 I have two others I started writing about but have yet to finish - one about the 2018 Parkland and the other on last year’s 2022 Uvalde school shootings.
Should I one day get to finish writing those blogs that will bring the total number of columns/posts to 13.
That’s 13 too many!
Now with The Covenant School, a private Presbyterian parochial school located in Nashville, Tenn, that left six dead – three of them age nine the latest mass murderer is now a woman who identified herself as transgendered. (AND NO, I WILL NOT NAME HER/HIM)!
Back in January this year I asked the question on social media how long it will be before the mass murderer is a woman. For decades the profile of a mass murderer was a white male - some of whom were married with children, had current or previous relationships with significant others, and whose ages ranged from the mid-20s to early 60s before going off the deep end.Since '99, the ages of mass shooters have been younger, and their nationalities are no longer relegated to white males. Recent mass shootings over the past few months were committed by men of African American, Asian and of Hispanic/and or Latino descent.
My ominous prophecy came true on March 27, 2023, in a couple ways.
Up until the latest tragedy, I’ve always believed the safest place for parents to send their kids to is a private school. I’ve always believed mass shootings rarely occur at private schools, if ever and if they do, they rarely make national headlines due to the low body count. They’ve always happened at public schools.
If the person is intent on killing, they are going to find a way to do it.
I’ve had it with this crap!
I throw my arms up in complete disgust! As of March 27, a total of 131 mass shootings has happened this year.
I’m tired of reading the mini-obits and go-fund-me pages about the victims whose lives were mercilessly cut short.
I’m tired of engaging in social media pissing contests who argue how snuff videos like the one showing WDBJ news reporter Alison Parker, 24, and photojournalist Adam Ward, 27, being shot and killed live during a morning news segment in 2015 deserved to be seen on YouTube for world viewing. In their sick little minds, watching the two being shot to death live felt that would make viewers realize how deadly guns are. BULLSHIT! It will only inspire would be shooters to commit the same vile thing!
I’m tired of people telling me this is the new normal like COVID and this is the way things are. To them, I'm supposed to get with the program and deal with it, damnit!
But hey, what do I know! I guess any garbage spewed out by the "Hollyweird" elite glorifying gun violence like the latest "John Wick" sequel that has grossed 120 million since its release two weeks ago is too fake for viewers. They want the real deal! No doubt the ones who said the Parker/Ward video should be shown for public consumption are those same losers who say, "Die Hard" (1988) IS a Christmas movie. In their minds terrorism and mass murder IS the spirit of Christmas!
I’m tired of hearing how more gun legislation will put an end to all this gun violence.
Do you need to look at how many are killed on a weekly basis on the streets of Chicago which I now call “Chi-Raq” (the death toll is higher during the holiday weekends) to know the toughest gun laws which the “Windy City” has in place don’t work? Just because Democratic Mayor Lorie Lightfoot no longer runs the blood drenched streets of “Chi-Raq” doesn’t mean the body count will start dropping sharply in the coming months, if at all. The two incumbent mayoral candidates, Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson, Chicago voters will be choosing from in April are Democrats if that tells you anything.
I am at the point now where when the next mass shooting happens (YES!!! THE NEXT ONE!!!) there will be zero need for me to do another commentary, should I even want to write one. This blog post will suffice. All I have to do is change the opening paragraph and everything else can stay the same. The only other change I’ll make is the date of the post at the top and bottom.
With declining poll numbers like that how is it people have the nerve to ask why these mass shootings continue to occur on a daily/weekly occurrence versus when I attended high school in the mid-1980s.
“You know, repenting of your sins and having some sort of reform in this country seems to me ... that would be the way we're gonna have to turn this thing around because we have some very sick evil people doing some very vile things and revival seems to be the way to go,” Burchett told Fox News this week.
On May 25, 2022, the day after the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 students and two teachers dead GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene echoed the same similar sentiments Burchett said earlier this week.
“America is failing our youngest generations from decades of rejecting good moral values and teachings," Greene said. "We don't need more gun control. We need to return to God."
As much as it pains me to quote the Georgia congresswoman whose oftentimes controversial outspoken outlandish behavior on the Republican right is as bad as the liberal Anti-American left-wing garbage spewed out by congressional members of the socialist democratic party known as “The Squad” that include Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, IIhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib I have no choice but to give Greene some credit.
She’s got a point!
©3/31/23
Up until the latest tragedy, I’ve always believed the safest place for parents to send their kids to is a private school. I’ve always believed mass shootings rarely occur at private schools, if ever and if they do, they rarely make national headlines due to the low body count. They’ve always happened at public schools.
If the actions of the Nashville “gunwoman” who shot her way into the glass locked doors at The Covenant School proved anything as captured by the surveillance cameras it is that it doesn’t matter how many security procedures a school district has in place to stop a mass murderer. It doesn’t matter anymore if the district hires licensed police officers or asks that all teachers and staff become registered gun owners with a license to carry a firearm.'It's a horrible, horrible situation, and we're not going to fix it,' GOP Tennessee congressman Tim Burchett told Fox News earlier this week. “Criminals are going to be criminals. 'And my daddy fought the Second World War, fought in the Pacific, fought the Japanese. And he told me, buddy, he said, if somebody wants to take you out and doesn't mind losing their life, there's not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it.'”
If the person is intent on killing, they are going to find a way to do it.
I’ve had it with this crap!
I throw my arms up in complete disgust! As of March 27, a total of 131 mass shootings has happened this year.
I’m tired of reading the mini-obits and go-fund-me pages about the victims whose lives were mercilessly cut short.
I’m tired of lawmakers on the left and right politicizing these tragedies minutes after they happen when the bodies are still lying dead on the floors of churches, college campuses, grade schools, malls, movie theaters and workplaces and who have yet to be identified before law enforcement can notify the emotionally crushed parents and loved ones of the deceased.I’m tired of being told by the powers-that-be in human resources mandating I watch an hour-long video as part of my yearly training on what to do should a disgruntled gunman or gunwoman enter my place of work spraying bullets. Chances are I’ll either throw something at the psychopath or attempt to rush them head on. I’m going to die anyway so I might as well go out fighting instead of locking myself in a bathroom stall or vacated office waiting for all clear from police.
I’m tired of engaging in social media pissing contests who argue how snuff videos like the one showing WDBJ news reporter Alison Parker, 24, and photojournalist Adam Ward, 27, being shot and killed live during a morning news segment in 2015 deserved to be seen on YouTube for world viewing. In their sick little minds, watching the two being shot to death live felt that would make viewers realize how deadly guns are. BULLSHIT! It will only inspire would be shooters to commit the same vile thing!
I’m tired of people telling me this is the new normal like COVID and this is the way things are. To them, I'm supposed to get with the program and deal with it, damnit!
But hey, what do I know! I guess any garbage spewed out by the "Hollyweird" elite glorifying gun violence like the latest "John Wick" sequel that has grossed 120 million since its release two weeks ago is too fake for viewers. They want the real deal! No doubt the ones who said the Parker/Ward video should be shown for public consumption are those same losers who say, "Die Hard" (1988) IS a Christmas movie. In their minds terrorism and mass murder IS the spirit of Christmas!
I’m tired of hearing how more gun legislation will put an end to all this gun violence.
Do you need to look at how many are killed on a weekly basis on the streets of Chicago which I now call “Chi-Raq” (the death toll is higher during the holiday weekends) to know the toughest gun laws which the “Windy City” has in place don’t work? Just because Democratic Mayor Lorie Lightfoot no longer runs the blood drenched streets of “Chi-Raq” doesn’t mean the body count will start dropping sharply in the coming months, if at all. The two incumbent mayoral candidates, Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson, Chicago voters will be choosing from in April are Democrats if that tells you anything.
Since '99, I’ve argued how the focus needs to be on assisting the mentally ill when it comes to curbing the gun violence. I can no longer stand behind that. Much like how added gun legislation won’t stop mass killings, spending more money to treat the mentally ill won’t fix the problem either. Charles Whitman, James Oliver Huberty, James Holmes, Steven Kazmierczak and Stephen Paddock were among the gunmen who either knew they had something mentally wrong with them, attempted to seek help and failed to get any, underwent treatment by psychiatrists and took prescribed medications only to stop taking them prior to their killing sprees.The parents of the Nashville shooter knew she needed help and operated on the assumption their daughter got rid of all the automatic weapons she used in the shooting while being treated by a doctor for “emotional disorder.”
I am at the point now where when the next mass shooting happens (YES!!! THE NEXT ONE!!!) there will be zero need for me to do another commentary, should I even want to write one. This blog post will suffice. All I have to do is change the opening paragraph and everything else can stay the same. The only other change I’ll make is the date of the post at the top and bottom.
There is, however a very, very, very dim light at the end of the long dark tunnel that might, just might curb the daily bloodshed. That is if this Godless country of ours returns to patriotism. If parents start giving more than two shits about what their kids are doing under the roofs of their homes. If parents instill moral values in their offspring explaining to them the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, how murder is a crime and deserves to be punished and are taught to believe in God, the church and have an overall respect for human life.In a twist of irony Monday an hour before the Nashville shootings made cable news headlines, the high-heeled, over-the-knee skirted info-babes led by newscaster Harris Faulkner on Fox’s "Outnumbered" discussed a Wall Street Journal poll that revealed how the percentage of Americans who believed in patriotism, religion, having children, community involvement and tolerance of others has dwindled from above 70 percent in 1998 to below 40 percent with religion down from 62 percent in 1998 to 39 percent in 2023.
With declining poll numbers like that how is it people have the nerve to ask why these mass shootings continue to occur on a daily/weekly occurrence versus when I attended high school in the mid-1980s.
“You know, repenting of your sins and having some sort of reform in this country seems to me ... that would be the way we're gonna have to turn this thing around because we have some very sick evil people doing some very vile things and revival seems to be the way to go,” Burchett told Fox News this week.
On May 25, 2022, the day after the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 students and two teachers dead GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene echoed the same similar sentiments Burchett said earlier this week.
“America is failing our youngest generations from decades of rejecting good moral values and teachings," Greene said. "We don't need more gun control. We need to return to God."
As much as it pains me to quote the Georgia congresswoman whose oftentimes controversial outspoken outlandish behavior on the Republican right is as bad as the liberal Anti-American left-wing garbage spewed out by congressional members of the socialist democratic party known as “The Squad” that include Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, IIhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib I have no choice but to give Greene some credit.
She’s got a point!
©3/31/23
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