Hand wringing

So, I looked in at Facebook and all kinds of posts about how people are "sick" and holding their kids a little tighter right now, but they'll go back to normal tomorrow.  And it should.  It's a horrible tragedy and one that we all have the most slight chance of ever experiencing.  Everyone will wring their hands and go back to normal, take everything granted.  And that's probably best b/c we can't go around living in fear, seeing a crazed killer around every corner.

It was interesting that I just read Malcolm Gladwell's book "tipping point" where he talks about mass shootings occurring in waves.  I have to wonder if this shooter got is "ok" from the sick fuck in Clackamas Oregon a few days ago?

Lots of talk about gun-control or not talking about gun-control, but hell that's not going to stop this kind of stuff.  Have you seen the war on drugs?  That's gone so well.  A war on guns isn't going to fare remotely as well considering the number of legally owned guns in this country and the Constitution.  But NO ONE is mentioning the sorry state of mental health care in this country.  The sick and twisted will always find weapons, why not treat the illness instead of the tools of the crime?  Guns exist, no one is going to ban them or take them away.  But we can treat mental illness more effectively, why not start there?

Media/NFL coverage of KC Linebacker Jovan Belcher

The networks and the players seem to forget that this guy that killed himself was a murderer.  He killed his girlfriend first.  While it's tragic, isn't it MOST tragic that he killed an innocent person.  The girlfriend barely has been mentioned, she's the victim of his violence.  Yet after a 5 minute piece on how horrible it was the Belcher was dead, the announcer finally mentioned the name of the woman he killed.  Sorry, I don't have sympathy for him.  He killed an innocent woman.  I can't weep for him, especially when everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that he was a murderer when he died.