Aurora

    I apologize ahead of time for the tone of this post, but  this needs to be said.  Friday morning we all woke up to the news of the shooting in Aurora Colorado.  It seemed surreal, again.  This kind of stuff happens way too often these days.  I was numb.  I got ready and headed in to work.
     To be honest, I had pushed it to the back of my mind, until I came upon a friend who was in tears.  I asked her if she was okay, and she said she had just been reading about the shooting, and that there were a lot of kids in the theater.  I hadn't given that much thought.  That set me off.  All lives are precious, but to me, kids are especially so.  One of the victims was only 6 years old.  How do you shoot a 6 year old girl?  I'm off track already.
     What kind of sick being does these kind of things?  God asks us to forgive, but how can you find forgiveness for actions like these?  I don't know, if my family was the victim of something like this that I could.  That's honesty.  The more information that came out, the worse it became.
     Big man he was, he came in, shot these innocent people, while HE was wearing body armor to protect himself.  Then afterwards, he was found HIDING near his car.  Then the news was reported that this scum had booby trapped his apartment with explosives, somehow fixed it where loud music would start playing so someone would come to investigate, and set off explosions killing even more innocent people.  Sick.
     Of course, the media was soon all on top of things, spending more time talking about gun control and trying to play political games casting blame on whichever political party they were not affiliated with, throwing out innuendo and half truths.  Forget about the tremendous toll this tragedy is taking on families, the Aurora community, and the nation as a whole, we have a political agenda to push.  Early Friday morning, ABC news was speculating that the shooter was a member of the Tea Party, and were pushing that fact on the newscast.  Never mind that they didn't check their facts, and that the Tea Party member was 50 years old and not 24 like the shooter.  Of course, in their retraction, they blamed social media, and members of the public for the misinformation.  The ones that used this tragedy to push political agendas are scum too.
     Now we will be faced with glory hogging lawyers jumping on every news program talking about how the shooter is innocent until proven guilty, misunderstood, and placing the blame for this on everyone else except for the one who did this.  It will be society's fault, the gun lobby's fault, everyone but the scum.  There have already been people on the news as of Saturday night speculating that he may have been sexually abused, and throwing out the insanity card.  Yes, the lawyers that use this to push their agenda and make money are scum also.
     Lastly, we will be faced with hearing for who knows how long about the scum in court, and all of his appeals.  Meanwhile, we will be providing him with medical, dental room and board, on top of probably providing the scum with legal representation. He is safe and secure in his isolated cell. He has also already requested a public defender, which the same people that survived the massacre will pay for with their tax money. I have an idea to curb some of these scum from taking innocent lives.
     If you do something like this, you get a fair trial.  If you can't afford a lawyer yourself, you get legal books. If you can't read, someone will read them to you.  If and when you are found guilty, you will not spend the rest of your life being taken care of by the taxpayers.  You will be put into a room, and be given to the families of the victims to dole out your punishment.  You won't know when they are coming, it could be today, tomorrow, or next week.  Oh yeah, they will be wearing body armor and be heavily armed.  Have a nice day.