Quote From: karlagolayThere is no end to this and there can be no end to senseless killings like this in the United States in our present form of government. As long as Americans continue to operate in the social structures we have created without recognizing our need for flexibility and serious changes in what we do and do not allow for, sad events like this will continue.
I don't care what the NRA says about incidents like this, a gun killed those people.
We either take them away or create laws that enable citizens to better defend themselves.
As long as there is hate, envy, jealousy, disrespect, greed and avarice in the world there will be no end to this.
The very best screening for law enforcement officers will not make enough differance as we have seen.
The path down this terrible road starts with, disrespect, for self first, than others.
If your wondering why....and how....something like this can happen in 'our' nice little town...it all started the very moment a human being thought less of themselves than they had ought to of.
We should have learned self-respect early in life but too often we have parents where one or more of them have also come to a place to where they too, stopped respecting themselves, their name, their home and values until all they had ever hoped for and placed so much value in...is gone.
Whole value systems are based in...1.Love 2. Work, when one of those is out of balance and threatens our well being our entire value system is threatened and that is where a good basis in self-respect is called for and necessary for our recovery.
When we place no more value on ourselves and are taken with hopelessness it is than we have stopped respecting both ourselves and others.
When this happens we open the door to an attitude of 'our own needs first' and than we no longer care about the needs of others, be they physical or spirtual needs...or whatever is that gives our neighbors the balance they need in their own lives and values.
The spiral downward continues when we are so busy trying to keep the essentials for our own basic survival intact and operational, the need for balance in our love (relationships) and work (life purpose), that we so easily take our eyes off others that we share and trade with and when we do that, when we, through our actions or inactions, get so busy with ourselves it is than say to others with our body language and our tone of voice, you do not count, you are not a part of my life mission and value system and you provide nothing to my personal well being or the well being of my family, when we devalue others like that, we set the stage for retaliation and violence in our communities.
When we are so busy looking for the forest and can't see the trees right in front of us we have to pause and reflect and ask ourselves........are we too busy ?......what are we missing here ?.....and why ?
What part did I or we play in this tragedy ?
Just because I didn't pull the trigger and it's not my fault doesn't mean that perhaps there was something I could have done to prevent this.
Just because I refuse to accept guilt for being so selfish and focused on only my own family and it's needs doesn't mean I am no less liable for my actions or inactions when travesty falls upon another family nearby.
Where is the dividing line between being self sufficent and minding my own business and being my brother's keeper ?
We live in the social structures we create. We are liable for what we allow and do not allow for within them.
We all play a role in our communities and social structures whether we like those roles or not.
I dont know what the world is coming to. I worry about my grandkids growing up in this kind of world. How do we guard them from this kind of tragedy. We need to stand together and teach our kids to repect each other at home and at school.That we can not always get what we want in live. And repect someone else when they say No to you. And not get mad with each other. And learn to get alone with everyone. Put God back in the schools.
Early Sunday morning in Crandon, a small Wisconsin logging town, 20-year-old deputy sheriff Tyler Peterson went on a shooting rampage killing six people and critically wounding another before authorities fatally shot him. A part-time police officer, Peterson fired thirty rounds of ammunition on his ex-girlfriend and a group of friends who had gathered for pizza and movies to celebrate homecoming weekend. Who was Tyler Peterson, and what drove him to murder six people in cold blood? What is the profile of a mass murderer, and does he fit the description? How could Peterson have slipped through the system to become a law enforcement officer, and how do we keep it from happening again? Every day, more than 80 Americans die from gun violence.* From the 1999 Columbine massacre to the nation's deadliest shooting rampage in history at Virginia Tech last April, mass shootings in America continue to draw world scrutiny. Be there when Dr. Phil asks the tough questions. If it's happening now, Dr. Phil is gonna talk about it now! Share your thoughts, join the discussion.
