Sunday, December 16, 2012

AFTER THE VIOLENCE


In The Aftermath of the Violence

This morning, the television news programs were filled with political pundits and would-be wise men, all searching for easy solutions to something where there are no easy solutions — weapons bans, tighter weapons control, harsher penalties for violent crime, making school buildings more secure, more care for the mentally ill (assuming one can identify who is mentally ill). As usual, the national hysteria, the national neurosis rages, the national breast-beating; and as usual nothing will get done. Before anything else, America, as a nation, as a people, needs to look deep within and realize the culture of violence that dwells there. Nothing will be done, nothing can be done, until that culture of violence, that ethos where bloody murder is the commonplace, is realized and changed within each heart – within each family. I know all too well. I’ve been cleaning up the messes of that culture all my life.


(Twenty children and six adults killed in a massacre at the Newtown, Connecticut elementary school were all shot multiple times, many with a rifle, wielded by a lone gunman, on December 14, 2012.)

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