Again,
I don't know how many times I've heard phrases like the one above, but, when I
heard it about a week ago, it became, for me, the straw that broke the camel's
back. I've also heard fathers say, "If
she brings (one of them) home, I'll kill her."
Really? With all of the violent death that happens on
a daily basis not only in The Formerly United States of America, but throughout
the world, the catalyst for another killing would be knowing that a man, whose
skin is of a hue which is disagreeable to a father, might find that father's
daughter attractive? That's it?
Friday, July
20 came to mind. Aurora, Colorado came
to mind. The midnight showing of a
Batman movie entitled "The Dark Knight Rises" came to mind. Some people in that town made the choice
to go that theater to watch that showing of that movie. Another man who obviously feels that the
world is falling behind in senseless killings chose that night to enter that
theater at that time and begin shooting people. When it was over, twelve people had been
killed because of the choice they made.
Really? It was their "fault" that they were killed?
First,
let's get one word out of the way. That
word is "fault". Since when is going to
a movie theater a "fault"? Indeed, it
was their choice to be there at that time.
I'm relatively certain that, if they knew ahead of time that a man would
walk into the theater, aim a gun in their direction and shoot them dead, they'd
have chosen another showing. This isn't
meant to be glib and, for certain, it isn't meant to be funny. It's really meant to relate to what I heard
at Safeway only a couple of days after that shooting occurred.
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