[Grovenet] Senseless violence

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Yes - and over 100 more died yesterday in Baghdad alone. 

Our domestic tragedy is likely to spawn a whole new thrust to outlaw guns.
I'm not a gun enthusiast nor am I a gun owner. I'm convinced that focusing
on guns won't do any more to make our schools and towns safer than
withdrawing from Iraq will make America safer. 

We had some highly disturbed kids in High School and College when I was in
school. Sometimes they'd even suicide. What they didn't do was get a gun,
chain doors closed and kill everyone they could. The pro-gun people have a
point when they say that guns don't kill; people kill. 

I think it's way past time we take a long, hard look at our society and ask
why we teach that violence and murder is "acceptable". We do it in the games
we give our children, in our stories and in our affairs with other people,
like Iraq. 

We have done just that for decades, all while decrying any idea of
compulsory military service as something that would debase our children.

Clearly, something has gone terribly wrong in American society. Like Iraq,
it won't get better doing the same thing we've been doing. 

I'm sure we'll soon leave Iraq. Not because we were successful, but because
we were not. Because we are incompetent and powerless to succeed there.
Because we Americans are the author of bloodshed, violence and terror on a
scale that makes freedom-loving, sensitive people cry out in anguish. 

Can we do better here at home? 

Will we? 

Ron D'Eau Claire 




-----Original Message-----
From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com [mailto:grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com] On
Behalf Of David Morelli
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:54 PM
To: grovenet
Subject: [Grovenet] Senseless violence


We had a day of senseless violence, and our thoughts go out to the  
survivors and the families of more than 30 people who died at  
Virginia Tech.

Those unnecessary deaths of innocent people by a psychopath in the US  
has pushed out of the news other unnecessary deaths in other countries.

In a county of 300 million, a day with 30+ violent deaths in one  
incident is sufficient to shake us.

In Iraq, a country of 27 million, they encounter more than 30 violent  
deaths from car bombs, suicide bombs, and death squads on an average  
day.

4 years, 60,000+ reported unnecessary, violent civilian deaths due to  
the war in Iraq.  Possibly 10x that number in excess deaths  
attributed to the war and failure of the public systems.

Who died?
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/names.php

David


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