Fifty dead Sunday in Orlando from gunfire. One hundred and forty dead in the United States Sunday from gunfire. Ninety dead Saturday from gunfire. Another ninety dead today, Monday, from gunfire. On track for more than 32,800 dead this year. Why is everyone so upset over what happened in Florida when it's repeated each and every day? Why does fifty dead in a few hours in one place seem so much worse than ninety spread over a few at a time in twenty four hours each and every day?
Is the human mind unable to comprehend so many deaths nationally? Does it become impossible to grasp such a large number and needs to experience it in increments? At what point do we start thinking of the dead as human beings and identify with them as ourselves? Not as homosexuals or blacks or any of the divisions created racially or sexuality. Just people like all the rest of us.
How do we stop such carnage and waste? Some say "ban all guns." Unfortunately, there were massacres even before guns were invented. I think we need better ways to identify mental illness. Surely with our technology a brain scanner could be constructed to weed out people approaching the deep end of the pool.
We will never be able to teach empathy where it doesn't exist. I don't think we will ever be able to teach unbelief in erroneous ideas instilled over a lifetime by well meaning but damaging personages. A solution to this dilemma is beyond my poor capabilities of reasoning. In the meantime just keep yourself safe as well as you can.
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