Topic : 10/12 Homecoming Shooting

There 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've got news for you. Dr. Phil can not take anybody's gun from them. The second amendment to the constitution gives the right to have a gun to anyone who wants to take advantage of it. And because

you have this unbalanced hate of an inantimate object does not give you or anyone else the right to decide that gun owners have to give up their guns.

And because of your useless hate for guns you denied your sons the fun of playing cowboys and indians and cops and robbers and all the other games that kids played during that time. So their grandmother bought them toy guns. The operative word here is "toy". Kids would play with these toys and use their imagination and have a great time indoors and outside. My brothers and I did. You didn't even want them to pick up a stick that resembled a gun.  There are more things than a stick that could cause a child to lose an eye.  Bravo to you. You denied your children fun.

We are desinging  schools without lockers.We have a police force training as I write for these matters.We also have k-nine dogs at several schools as the children enter.I wonder if they are trained for such a incident as this that happened.It happened here i Oklahoma and God knows we were shocked.I think the day is near when the metal detectors will be in force in all schoold to check back packs, etc:

God help these families! I just can't imagine this happening today. My husband at a very young age went  rabbit hunting on his way to & from school & left his gun in the cloak room. Just imigane such a thing today.When Americans decieded to leave God out of schools, makes me wonder if this didn't cntribute to some of this.

God Bless.

Peggy

Killing of others is so needless. Our hearts go out to all that have had loved ones killed. Our son was murdered in 1992. By one of his friends, over money. People blame guns, well it's not guns. It is sick people. If it's not a gun it would be something else. My son was tortured & killed. He was missing for 3 yrs. If it wasn't for a very special police officer of the El Monte, Ca. police force. I never would have been able to put my son to rest. Lt. Raneer  promised me he would find my son & bring him home to me. And he did just that.  This man being a police officer had nothing to do with what he did. Neither did his family.

I feel if someone feels the need to kill, just kill yourself. Why hurt others because your mind is sick. The world is getting sicker all the time. I hate the thougfht of the world that my grandkids are growing up to be apart of.  I do believe if parents spent more time giving there kids love instead of material things, the world would improve. Wanting your kids to have a better life then you did is great. Start with Love & spending time together.. That's what every kid needs.