We have heard about it before, a car that plows through a crowd and hurts and kills some people.
As you know we don’t have a TV, well on land. But every now and then I use my iPad and read USA Today. I try to keep up with what’s going on in the world around us.
Well it happened again and this time the man drove through a crowd in Venice Beach, California, and killed a woman from Italy on her honeymoon. My first thought is what in the heck is wrong with people? And everyone tells us not to leave the USA!?
It made me curious as to what the heck is it that makes Americans go off the deep end and want to hurt others.
So I did a search for some statistics, there is a mass killing every two weeks on average. Now that only counts if you kill 4 or more people. All the others like the shooting at the town hall meeting in Pennsylvania don’t count he “only” killed 3 but injured many more. I wonder if some of these nut jobs are trying to out do the other nut jobs? So the killings don’t always make the front page or aren’t talked about for long because well they don’t count, at least that’s the way I read it.
My second thought is holy crap, there are so many people going nuts out there! I spoke to a man the other day about an fight he was in, he was Coast Guard and the other guy was Army. They had laughed and joked over drinks all night like the best of friends, then an Army joke was made and the guy lost it beat him so bad it was as if he had a full stroke… Really? Has our society decided to be this fast to become violent?
I have a permit to carry a concealed gun and I don’t for the most part, I never felt the need to be armed all the time. After reading and seeing all of what has been happening I carry more often now. I do not want to end up in a situation helpless and can’t protect my wife, son, or grand kid from some nut job… Not happening.
It’s not the guns because knives, cars and any other method that can be used as we have seen over the last year will be. I don’t remember who said it yesterday on the news but it was said that if every American had a gun we could get rid of the police department and save a trillion dollars…? I don’t think so, please people no police? I don’t even want to imagine that.
Have a great Tuesday
Wolfbernz
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