I have trouble relating to people
emotionally. I know that it can be considered bad but it helps me get
through this crazy ass world. For those that don't know, years ago I
worked at one of the largest hospitals on the West coast. My job
title, patient escort, meant that I had to move supplies, samples,
and people around the hospital. This mean living or dead people.
Yes. I moved dead bodies.
While working there for a cool $10.25
an hour I got to witness a lot of tragedy on an almost daily basis. A
good day was maybe taking only two cancer patients to get chemo or
taking someone to their car with their family as they were
discharged. A bad day are days that are burned into my mind for the
rest of my life. I had to talk to more family members than I can
remember while their family member was being wrapped up for me to
take away on a gurney. Some were okay while some cried their eyes out
to me while thinking “I hope I am making them feel better.” And I
did. Lots of patients while leaving thanked me for being so nice or
just talking to them like a normal person.
Most times people just need an outlet
of some sort. Hopefully a healthy one that doesn't involve liquor,
getting high, or violence. This brings me to the reason I even
started this ramble fest. Today at the Inland Regional Center in San
Bernardino there was a shooting. They call it a mass shooting. The
facility describes itself as “an agency among agencies, Inland
Regional Center coordinates with generic services to normalize the
lives of people with developmental disabilities and their families by
working to include them in the everyday routines and life rhythms of
the community and by facilitating needed supports for them.”
As of me writing this there are about
14 people dead and 17 wounded. The shooters, three as far as they
know, were wearing body armor and were heavily armed. Two have been
killed by police, a man and a woman, with a possible third on the
loose. Bodies of victims had not even been removed before everyone
dusted off their podiums and started shoehorning their views on this
situation.
They are terrorists. We need more gun
control. We need tougher gun laws. We need a president that will
change the laws regarding assault weapons. How about better mental
health care. Teachers need to be armed for situations like this.
Let me answer all of those statements
in order.
Anyone that intends to harm or kill
someone is a terrorists. I think the word you were looking for is
“Muslim.” You don't need more gun control because there is no
such thing as gun control. There is people control and when anyone
tries that the people tend to get rioty. For different gun laws
you'll need to work on ratifying the 2nd Amendment and good luck with
that. Better health care? Yeah...no. Just because healthcare is
available doesn't mean people will use it. Ask any librarian about
the amount of crazy they deal with daily. And if you start arming
teachers the amount of children being home-schooled will skyrocket.
Name five teachers you had that you'd trust with a weapon in class.
Exactly.
While watching the news one of the
reporters said that they didn't want to focus on a church where one
of the gunmen could've been hiding because they didn't want to give
away the polices position in case the gunman had access to
television. Then he gave the option to watch the news coverage
online, follow them on Facebook, or Twitter for live updates and
photos. Then they slowly zoomed in on the police at the church. I
actually said out loud “That is some gross negligence for your
ass.” Then I looked up that term because I'm a nerd.
“Gross negligence is a conscious and
voluntary disregard of the need to use reasonable care, which is
likely to cause foreseeable grave injury or harm to persons,
property, or both. It is conduct that is extreme when compared with
ordinary Negligence, which is a mere failure to exercise reasonable
care.”
It sounds like what the news did was
gross negligence to me. Maybe not. The news tends to have a strange
line in the sand that they draw. They will show blood after a crime,
the weapons, crying family members, but not show the perpetrators of
the crime being shot by police. Unless its the Spanish news station.
They don't give a fuck. All the news needed and should have done was
say “There was a shooting at this location. Police are responding.”
Then go back to Wendy Williams. Instead they babble for the next
several hours pleading for some more violence so that they don't have
to ask the helicopter pilot to repeat that he does not know what is
happening at the moment.
The news sucks. Yes, even your left
wing IAmRight.org site. I'm not telling everyone to stop watching the
news completely. I'm just saying maybe when something tragic happens
you think for a little bit before jumping online and spouting the
same bullshit you do whenever any tragedy happens. Or maybe treat
each tragedy equally and not just because the victims are your skin
color or speak the same language you do. I guarantee you wouldn't get
shit done because there are tragedies every day.
I saw one dude on Twitter that is an
actor talk shit about how we need to stop glorifying guns meanwhile
he did a voice in a game that is all about shooting and killing and
stars in violent movies. Everyone just shut up, try to like the
people in your immediate vicinity, and start calling your friends out
when they post bullshit.
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