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The San Bernardino shooting.
14 dead. 17 plus injured.
14 dead.
It’s so sad we should all bow our heads and cry.
Another Mass Shooting in America.
It turns my stomach.
The headlines, the incessant talking head banter about terrorism.
Like the rest of my news comrades I find myself drawn to the newsroom monitor as KABC’s copter hovers over the final shootout.
There’s a body in the street. There’s a black SUV riddled with bullets. There’s a personnel carrier moving heavily armored SWAT units into position.
There are tears, and stretchers and ambulances.
So Sad. So demented. So Twisted.
Have we become so anesthetized to the violence in this country we simply stand in front of our sets, our jaws agape, and watch this horror.
Is watching 14 people murdered now analogous to your foot falling asleep and you simply stand there, numb, waiting for the blood to re-enter your brain?
My son startled me tonight as I toggled back and forth between CNN and FOX NEWS.
“There have been 355 mass shootings so far this year,” he says.
I stare at him.
This kid is a 4.0 student. He lives on Twitter and knows stuff way before me, and I’m in news.
355 mass shootings so far this year. Is that possible?
Today is December 2nd, the 336th day of 2015.
That means we average at least one mass shooting a day in this country.
Some days, thank God there are no mass shootings.
But sadly, that means other days, there are multiple mass shootings.
According to published reports; The San Bernardino shooting is the 355th mass shooting this year, and the Reddit tracker defines mass shootings as incidents in which four or more people, including the gunman, are killed or injured by gunfire.
The shooting in San Bernardino is the 2nd mass shooting today. The other mass shooting was some event in Savanah Georgia where a gunman shot four people, killing a woman.
Bet you didn’t even hear about that.
4 people shot in sleepy old Savanah Georgia and nobody even gives a damn.
San Bernardino is the 3rd mass shooting since the Colorado Springs planned parenthood atrocity last Friday.
WTF?
There are so many mass shootings in this country, we can’t even follow them, understand them, rationalize them.
There were 5 mass shootings on November 22nd. Why? Why November 22nd? 5 Mass Shootings.
According to Fox News; Three suspects armed with long guns entered a conference room at the Inland Regional Center and opened fire
The media is going on ad nauseum about terrorism.
Domestic terrorism. International terrorism.
Syed Frook “in play” as possible shooting suspect, Fox News reports.
Would it matter if John Doe was in play?
Would it change that 14 people died a senseless, tragic, avoidable death?
The media is going on about terrorism?
Is it ISIS?
Is it like France?
Who cares?
14 dead is 14 dead.
You can’t stop crazy with an AK 47.
Well coordinated? Badly coordinated.
Pull the trigger and empty a banana clip into a crowd.
How hard is that?
An idiot with mal-intentions and firepower can make headlines and take lives. It doesn’t take a genius or a Jihad. Sometimes it just takes evil and crazy unfiltered desire to hurt.
How much coordination does it take to murder indiscriminately
Any whacko can do it whether their home grown, or from Pakistan.
What is terrorism?
It’s something that causes you to be terrified, right?
Well you think the people in San Bernardino are terrorized?
Of course it’s terrorism. A neighborhood was terrorized. A community was terrorized. A community center Christmas party was terrorized.
I’d say that’s terrorism, wouldn’t you?
Were they acting in concert with another?
Were they part of a Jihad?
Were they disgruntled employees?
It doesn’t matter.
Crazy people got guns and shot up a room full of Christmas congregants.
Crazy wins again. You can’t stop crazy. You can’t defend against crazy.
Crazy is unpredictable. You can’t defend against it.
That’s why there are more mass killings in this country this year than days eclipsed in this year.
It’s atrocious.
I’m not numb, I’m angry.
What’s the answer?
I’m not sure there is an answer.
Crazy plus Evil plus semi automatic firepower equals more tears, more fears, more anesthetized idiots staring at their tv sets obdurate to the senselessness of it all.
Do something America. Get off your ass and do something.
Tomorrow is another day.
If the law of averages are correct, then at least 4 of you will be killed tomorrow in a stupid act of violence.
Will your family care if its terrorism?
Will anyone remember the mass killing yesterday when the new city showcases the latest version of police lights and crime tape?
Life’s Crazy™