Tough News
Those of you who regularly read this blog, know that I mostly focus on the positive side of life. For me, there is too much attention given to all the things we do wrong. Today would be an exception. Another mass shooting in a school. Parents sent their children to school today and ten priceless treasures didn’t return. It is unfathomable for a parent to experience this. Today’s episode was done at a high school, where Lou Ann’s niece teaches and 2 grand-nieces attend. There were anxious moments before we heard that they were okay. I know that pro gun folks say, that guns don’t kill people, people do. However, there is always a person at the other end of the gun who pulls the trigger. A person who is in so much pain, that they would commit a horrible act of violence; often to people they know. And there is also many innocent youngsters gunned down because they got on a yellow school bus and trusted.
I admit that I am an anti-gun person. I would love for all guns to be collected, even from governments , and melted down and we would build statues to all those who have lost their lives to gun violence. I realize that I have an extreme view. My extreme view is, for humanity to day by day, learn how to love. Learn how to love the unlovely. The perpetrators of these heinous crimes, were lonely people, that didn’t feel loved in some way. Even if they were mentally ill and incapable of experiencing love; we as a society, let them down. A famous psychiatrist said once, that people we call insane, are like us or we are like them in some ways. He said, that if we had experienced the exact same life as they had, we would probably have made the same choices. We literally do not know the heart and soul of another, totally.
Here we are again. There will be lots of discussion following this incident and not much will ever be done, to prevent it from happening again and again. Until most of us model for others how to live from a place of love, it won’t end. Until we find a way to care so much for those who do not love themselves, it will continue. I don’t choose to enter in to the argument here about the pros and cons of gun control and personal freedom. I know this, I once lost a step-son to suicide many years ago. When I found out it was like the world had ended. Let us find a way to love so much, that eventually no parent will ever have to experience what happened at Santa Fe High school. From my very sad heart to yours, Thomas