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Today is one of those days when I feel like I don’t have a real job. Or, maybe, it’s less real than some other jobs. Days like today are what make me reluctant to interrupt police officers with my little research questions. I do it, but only with a certain embarrassment. I only write about death and killing; I don’t, thankfully, deal with the real thing, on a daily basis.
St. Louis made national, and international news because one of our citizens went crazy and shot up the Kirkwood, MO, city council meeting. Five are dead, two wounded, at last news. The five dead include two police officers, two city council people, and a city engineer. The wounded included the mayor.
People are already debating, why? They are already trying to lay blame at more than just the man that pulled the trigger, and got shot to death for his troubles. But in the end, we’ll never really know why. A lot of people feel aggrieved at their local government, but they don’t get a gun and start shooting. Thousands of people every day loose court cases, but they don’t’ get a gun and kill people. Hundreds of people across this country are loud and obnoxious about their views, even disruptive in council meetings, but they don’t take a gun to the next meeting, and use it. So why did this man do it?
I say again, we won’t ever really know. Even if he were still alive to ask, he wouldn’t give us a reason that would make sense to us. Because, in the end, there is no reason good enough for what he did. Nothing sane, anyway.
Our hearts go out to those touched by this tragedy. Let’s all keep our heads, okay? Let’s all stay sane out there, and not let this one event make us into people we are not. Remember, that no matter how angry you get, you are sane, rational human beings, and you’d be surprised how many people you hate have children who love them.