Incredibly there has been another mass shooting in the U.S. I am at a loss to understand. I am sad for the families.
Despite the left-leaning liberal calls for more gun control and despite the arguments from the right-leaning NRA and it's proponents, we now have a new benchmark. I was hoping Sandy Hook would hold the record for at least a few decades. Of course, Virginia Tech was worst in terms of body count, but I could not imagine a more despicable deed than what happened at Sandy Hook.
Mark my words, there will be more outcries and more debate over whether more guns or fewer guns, more rhetoric, more opinion pieces on more guns or less guns. And nothing will change. Nothing will change until we human beings start being better human beings. Nothing will change until we begin to treat others as we ourselves would like to be treated. Nothing will change until we stop hating others.
We do not yet know what the motivations of the Orlando shooter were. There have been some reports that he saw two men kissing in public, found it to be disgusting and possibly was inspired to kill. Whatever the motivation, we can bet hatred was involved. Our politicians cannot legislate love. Our religious leaders try to convince us to love one another. Our parents (the good ones) show us love and most of us (the good ones?) reciprocate. Yet somehow a culture of hate still exists for many.
Need to be convinced that there is a culture of hate in the U.S.? Here is a top 12:
www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/heres-what-we-know-about-americas-worst-mass-shootings
Be good humans.
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