I don’t wish to make this a blog about politics and I think that is why I have chosen not to write anything in response to the events of April 16th, prior to now. Though my initial reaction is devastation and anger, my inner monologue inevitably questions the prevalence of violence in society and the often nonsensical and universally impotent responses to it. I am a pacifist and if I never again see a gun in this lifetime it will be too soon. I am not so naive as to think I will be that lucky. I also know all of the arguments for those who wish to own and/or carry firearms for protection, sport or any other arguably valid reason. See above – this is not my diatribe on gun control. I am merely feeling dumb right now. I am confused and oddly frustrated with myself – that I wasn’t more shocked by what happened, that I feel deeply sickened and saddened for the victims and, yet, I pray for an immediate end to the abundant and graphic coverage of the horrific events. A clearly disturbed and misguided young person took a multimedia approach to his final stand in an effort to punish the world as he knew it. I don’t even know how to articulate how frightening that concept is. Then I note to myself that gruesome atrocities are carried out across the globe every day. And these regular acts of ruin are generally executed by people with a similarly rigid burden of conviction. Aggression and ferocity continue to rule every corner and the effects reverberate across cultures and generations.
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I don’t wish to make this a blog about politics and I think that is why I have chosen not to write anything in response to the events of April 16th, prior to now. Though my initial reaction is devastation and anger, my inner monologue inevitably questions the prevalence of violence in society and the often nonsensical and universally impotent responses to it. I am a pacifist and if I never again see a gun in this lifetime it will be too soon. I am not so naive as to think I will be that lucky. I also know all of the arguments for those who wish to own and/or carry firearms for protection, sport or any other arguably valid reason. See above – this is not my diatribe on gun control. I am merely feeling dumb right now. I am confused and oddly frustrated with myself – that I wasn’t more shocked by what happened, that I feel deeply sickened and saddened for the victims and, yet, I pray for an immediate end to the abundant and graphic coverage of the horrific events. A clearly disturbed and misguided young person took a multimedia approach to his final stand in an effort to punish the world as he knew it. I don’t even know how to articulate how frightening that concept is. Then I note to myself that gruesome atrocities are carried out across the globe every day. And these regular acts of ruin are generally executed by people with a similarly rigid burden of conviction. Aggression and ferocity continue to rule every corner and the effects reverberate across cultures and generations.
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