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No Time For the Blame Game

It’s Human Nature

As most people know, there was a horrific attack in a Jewish Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday, where 11 innocent people were gunned down while praying. It is always chilling when acts of violence occur, especially where you should feel the safest (houses of worship and schools).

This is another case where law enforcement agencies are appreciated when they ask so quickly to prevent further loss of life. The whole nation again mourns the loss of life. We are also grateful to law enforcement for catching the perpetrator who mailed bombs to various politicians or those who supported certain political groups. 

There was another incident that happened  in China where a woman with a meat cleaver slashed 14 kindergarten children.

I recently heard someone speak that said everyone has it in them to commit violence, but most of us control those impulses. People can tell someone to commit violence, but it’s up to each individual to make that choice or not. You have to be responsible for your own actions and you must know what is right or wrong. 

I’d like to reference “Chicken Soup for the Soul.”

I remember when they interviewed certain well-known individuals. I believe it was Muhammad Ali was told by one of his teachers that he would never amount to anything which made him want to succeed even more.

What kind of person do you want to be? Do you want to be someone who lets someone else decide who you should be? Or do you want to make that decision yourself?

With all the negativity on all the media outlets, the world as a whole has become more intolerant, more violent, and more full of hatred than I can remember.

The media, especially when it comes to politics in the past 10 years has gotten very dirty. It seems that party interests is more than what’s best for the people. Has power become more important than the people’s needs?

It seemed when I was growing up, people from all religions were more connected than we are now. It seems like politics were less segregated than in the past as they are now.

We said it before and we’ll say it again. PUT PRAYERS BACK INTO PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

We tried everything else, so why not? It something to try. 

With all these acts of violence that are occurring, people blame the access to guns, the lack of access to mental health care, uncontrolled bullying, etc. 

Right now, we are at a loss for words. There so much disconnection in a world and where we are more comfortable texting instead of talking face to face, there’s a problem. Even when you go to a public meeting and they say to you silence your cell phones or go into another room to do so. Trust me, there’s always someone at the meeting and their phone will go off, even they were there when they were told to silence it. It’s human nature.