Massacre in Oregon - October 1, 2015
Massacre in Oregon - Thursday, October 1, 2015
I walked 11,116 steps today. I met my goal of walking 10,000 steps every day.
Stay Healthy My Friends!
In my earlier blog postings I said that I would write about those things that I see and experience for the first time and those things that I see and do for the last time. As I sit here listening to the news reports about the massacre in Roseburg, Oregon at Umpqua Community College and wish that masssacres of this nature were one of those things/events that I would see and experience for the last time, but I doubt it. There were 10 people killed today and seven severly injured by one very crazy 20 year old gunman at a college in the small university town of Roseburg, Oregon. This is the fourth attack on a American college campus since August. I get chills as I write this at the thought of what those parents and grandparents of those deceased students are going through at this very minute. Ten lives lost. What a tragedy. What will it take to stop these massacres? I see and hear President Obama come out to the same podium and expresses his frustration about this massacre and all the many massacres in this country. He says that, "our thoughts and prayers are with the community and the families" of the victims. I suppose if these killing were done by an Islamic terrorist the country would be up in arms. But we just wait and the president just waits and the country just waits until the next massacre happens so that we can be up in arms once again. We do nothing about gun control. The elected officials and police departments and the citizens of the town or community are shocked that it happened in their community. "Tragic events like these are not supposed to happen in our community," they say. They express, "profound dismay." We as a country must get a high from these killings. Our country and the communities must get an endorphin rush when these killings happen because then everythings goes back to normal until the next time and then we go through the same news cycle. Every side spins the massacre for their own benefit. "Gun don't kill people, people kill people," the NRA people say. "We want more gun control" the other side says. And in the end all things remain the same. We keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results. That is what I call insanity. This type of event is an event that I would rather not see or experience.
Here are some killings of note where young people were massacred. This short list does not include the shooting in Tucson, Arizona. And this is just the tip of the iceburg. I believe that we have a shooting almost every week of the year. And now we have Roseburg, Oregon.
13 killed - April 20, 1999 - Columbine High School - Littleton, Colorado. 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold kill 12 fellow students and one teacher before committing suicide in the school library.
12 killed - July 20, 2012 - Twelve people are killed and 58 are wounded in a shooting at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater screening of the new Batman film. James E. Holmes, 24, is taken into custody outside of the movie theater. The gunman, dressed head-to-toe in protective tactical gear, set off two devices of some kind before spraying the theater with bullets from an AR-15 rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and at least one of two .40-caliber handguns police recovered at the scene.
9 killed - June 17, 2015 - Dylann Roof, 21, shoots and kills nine people inside the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Charleston, South Carolina. Eight die at the scene; a ninth dies at a hospital. Roof is arrested the following day; according to police, he confesses and tells investigators he wanted to start a race war.
27 killed - December 14, 2012 - Sandy Hook Elementary School - Newtown, Connecticut. Adam Lanza, 20, guns down 20 children, ages six and seven, and six adults, school staff and faculty, before turning the gun on himself. Investigating police later find Nancy Lanza, Adam's mother, dead from a gunshot wound. The final count is 28 dead, including the shooter.
I walked 11,116 steps today. I met my goal of walking 10,000 steps every day.
Stay Healthy My Friends!
In my earlier blog postings I said that I would write about those things that I see and experience for the first time and those things that I see and do for the last time. As I sit here listening to the news reports about the massacre in Roseburg, Oregon at Umpqua Community College and wish that masssacres of this nature were one of those things/events that I would see and experience for the last time, but I doubt it. There were 10 people killed today and seven severly injured by one very crazy 20 year old gunman at a college in the small university town of Roseburg, Oregon. This is the fourth attack on a American college campus since August. I get chills as I write this at the thought of what those parents and grandparents of those deceased students are going through at this very minute. Ten lives lost. What a tragedy. What will it take to stop these massacres? I see and hear President Obama come out to the same podium and expresses his frustration about this massacre and all the many massacres in this country. He says that, "our thoughts and prayers are with the community and the families" of the victims. I suppose if these killing were done by an Islamic terrorist the country would be up in arms. But we just wait and the president just waits and the country just waits until the next massacre happens so that we can be up in arms once again. We do nothing about gun control. The elected officials and police departments and the citizens of the town or community are shocked that it happened in their community. "Tragic events like these are not supposed to happen in our community," they say. They express, "profound dismay." We as a country must get a high from these killings. Our country and the communities must get an endorphin rush when these killings happen because then everythings goes back to normal until the next time and then we go through the same news cycle. Every side spins the massacre for their own benefit. "Gun don't kill people, people kill people," the NRA people say. "We want more gun control" the other side says. And in the end all things remain the same. We keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results. That is what I call insanity. This type of event is an event that I would rather not see or experience.
Here are some killings of note where young people were massacred. This short list does not include the shooting in Tucson, Arizona. And this is just the tip of the iceburg. I believe that we have a shooting almost every week of the year. And now we have Roseburg, Oregon.
13 killed - April 20, 1999 - Columbine High School - Littleton, Colorado. 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold kill 12 fellow students and one teacher before committing suicide in the school library.
12 killed - July 20, 2012 - Twelve people are killed and 58 are wounded in a shooting at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater screening of the new Batman film. James E. Holmes, 24, is taken into custody outside of the movie theater. The gunman, dressed head-to-toe in protective tactical gear, set off two devices of some kind before spraying the theater with bullets from an AR-15 rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and at least one of two .40-caliber handguns police recovered at the scene.
9 killed - June 17, 2015 - Dylann Roof, 21, shoots and kills nine people inside the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Charleston, South Carolina. Eight die at the scene; a ninth dies at a hospital. Roof is arrested the following day; according to police, he confesses and tells investigators he wanted to start a race war.
27 killed - December 14, 2012 - Sandy Hook Elementary School - Newtown, Connecticut. Adam Lanza, 20, guns down 20 children, ages six and seven, and six adults, school staff and faculty, before turning the gun on himself. Investigating police later find Nancy Lanza, Adam's mother, dead from a gunshot wound. The final count is 28 dead, including the shooter.
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