lets start a hate group against hate groups.

It's getting out of control.

This has been an awful month.

it really has. The only good news has been that whole futurama thing, and that really does not balance out all the bad stuff that's happened.

The news about this really shocked me. I just don't know, world. :(

The most unsettling thing to me is where, geographically, this happened. Too fucking close.

What the fuck is wrong with the world?

Like I said on twitter, saying "it could've been worse" feels like I'm cheapening it, but fuck, that's what's keeping my head up.

I'm watching the news at 10.

A childcare worker has just been charged with sexually assaulting the children in her care, all aged around 4.

... it could be worse.

I agree with you about the martyr thing. But sadly, I've known these kinds of people (not by choice, ugh) and he will be treated as one even if he lives and goes to jail. Actually, especially so, he'll get to live with his own belief of doing a good deed. Not that I wish death on anyone, but, ugh ugh ugh.

I just have major problems with people getting killed while simply working. Why the fuck shoot some poor guy with a shitty minimum-wage job? I doubt museum security carry guns... Completely pointless.

/Ramble

Exactly. Poor guy was just trying to do his job. (But actually, Brunn got shot by one of the other guards. So I think they're all carrying at least something.)

When something like this happens, at first I think, "we have to do something about our gun control," and then, "we have to do something about our public security," but at the end, that doesn't matter. Hateful people will do whatever they can. They'll always find new ways. And it'll always make us scared of our neighbors.

I think the fact that they were carrying guns makes it even sadder: that Johns could have defended himself, but either didn't or couldn't, and we won't why why.

They'll always find new ways. And it'll always make us scared of our neighbors.

Couldn't have said it better if I tried. Weapons availability is not the issue and misses the point... anything can become a lethal object if the intent is there. And the blame game government often tries to play is not the bottom line.

In short - ugh.

What a waste of brain matter and healthy tissue and muscle and bone. I will be glad if he loses these things, I don't think he deserves them after this.

Edited at 2009-06-10 11:18 pm (UTC)

There's a lot more well-deserving people who could use those things.

My brother and I heard about this at the same time earlier today and were like really? Fucking really? I'm *not* going to lie, I started to cry a little bit. With Obama's speeches that he just made while he was abroad, and the fact that this happened at a goddamn memorial for those who died so horribly, the bad jokes, they write themselves.

It just...I don't know why it infuriates me much more that it happened at a fucking Holocaust Memorial, but it really does. I don't wish death on anyone, but I won't shed a tear if the man dies. Racialized violence = instant I don't give about your rights/life.

And, sorry for rambling. This just really gets me. I'll take this rant to my own journal.

Edited at 2009-06-10 11:33 pm (UTC)

That's why I was a wreck when I found out. This was upsetting for a lot of factors: the racial motivation, the closeness to the Mall, the fucking place where it happened.

America has too many enemies as it is (and for good reason). We don't need to tear ourselves apart anymore. Wtf.

And dude trust me, rambling is always A-Okay in my journal.

Sometimes I think the fundamentalists must actually be onto something about the end of the world, because clearly we are going to destroy ourselves within a decade.

I wish I had a time machine.