Tragedy Strikes....again

What a terrible tragedy there was last night in Colorado.  A gunman in a crowded movie theater - great!! Just what I need, metal dectors and the price of extra security just going to the movies.  Not great that it happened, not great for anybody or anything.

What's this world coming to?  Go ahead and blame the guns if you want.  Guns kill people right? Guns are the enemy. They're deadly and should be banned!!  Horse shit!! 

Seriously people who want to do this sort of thing find something to use.  Guns are plentiful no doubt, but they're not the enemy.  If you blame the gun then you must blame the gas in the subway station in Japan, the bombs the IRA used in the Underground Stations in London, the fertilizer Timothy McVeigh used in Oklahoma City, etc...people will find a way...imagine Tim McVeigh attacking that theater - would a mixture of dead and wounded.

So why?  Didn't someone see it coming? Was the kid picked on, bullied and feeling abandoned and hopeless? A seemingly normal guy on the road to being successful as the world defines successful.  He was enrolled in a PhD program for crying out loud.  He's not a loser sitting in his parent's basement playing video games all day smoking his week hoping his mom doesn't recognize the smell.

What causes this sort of thing?  Is there any relationship between him and anti-authority type groups such as Occupy Wall Street?  Is he crying out against a system that some would say no longer works in a modern world?

Here's my thougths on what's going wrong here. 

It's not lack of government involvement for sure. There are entitlement programs supporting entitlement programs.  Say what you like about the big government bailouts, but regular people are taking nearly as much.  Question it? Check out HAFA - Making Housing Affordable Again - allowing folks who have quit making their house payments to live in a house until it's sold (short sale or foreclosure) and them giving them a cash payout to move.  Like I said - there are entitlement programs supporting entitlement programs.

Go back to image from the Superdome followinghurricane Katrina.  I was saddened to see the lack of American ingenuity and can-do attitude.  I didn't realize there was such a lack of hopelessness in this country.  So many people believe they can't do it, and therefore they never even try.  They say whether you believe you can, or you believe you can't, you're right.  This doesn't mean you'll be successful every time you set out - but at least you will have tried!! 

American business imports from China, open offices "offshore" and does busines we all cry about as unethical, immoral and down right unAmerican all while we're so busy watching reality television and can't be bothered to be the one to go out and do it different. 

Who does this country belong to anyway?  If business buys politicians then by God start a business and buy a better politician.  Don't believe it can be done?  Our state has a Realtor's Political Action Committe - they fight local ordinances and work with state governments on issues beneficial to not only realtors, but to home owners. They also support candiates friendly to issues concerning home ownership.  Oregon has a "view tax" - thanks to RPAC something like this would NEVER happen in Utah. 

Things aren't hopeless.  I understand a feeling of hopelessness and can relate.  Just the same I get myself out of bed in the morning and work to create MY world.  I don't work by myself.  I haven't been very faithful lately in following God's lead, and I'm sure that reflects in what's happening in my world.  Just the same I see a sunrise in the distance and not a sun setting forever - and this type of thing in Colorado smells of someone who sees only a sunset and darkness without any hope of a better tomorrow.