The Shooter Stated He Was As Piece of ____ All His Life, Which Says a Lot.
Posted: Thursday, December 06, 2007
by straight talk
And now the rest of the story, part 2 to my prior article. This morning we woke to the tragic news that nine people died in that Mall shooting yesterday, including the shooter and in reality who really gives a damn, the family and friends excluded. Sound harsh, well sorry, in reality we continue our own walk through the valley of tears and have no real time to fix onto this one incident, which is one among many. Should we, most certainly, but will we is the question? Oh sure many will say it is a shame, relate it to insanity, gun laws, abuse, his being a loner, a tragic incident and in fact everything else that people think will try to answer the question why but in the end no one knows for sure but that dead troubled young man.
The fact is this was a troubled person, one among millions who are suffering. Alone, worthless in his own opinion, can't find a decent job, rejected, unwanted and yes, insignificant and facing trials. Yes, millions of time bombs walking around in every walk of life and getting worse. They are all about and like those who knew him many might say like them we would have never expected it.
We feed our children violence and garbage, morality in decay, values and ethics a mess and it is the era of it works for me, selfishness, covetousness, exploitation and greed. How he got the gun doesn't matter, criminals can get guns no matter what laws you pass. People will kill people with any means at their disposal. That is not the issue here and not the answer although that will be the cry of the ban the gun crowd.
Why would someone move to this horrific action? Certainly as was the case at Virginna Tech the person had deep emotional and mental problems. Yet, in the case of this shooter, a person that by all accounts of the people who knew him, was a sensitive, caring person and non confrontational it seems to lack an answer. However, you really don't need a doctor or counselor to tell you why, or what was the thing that drove him to this dreadful action. He said it all in his last statements and in this title.
Why, well in my opinion if you don't know that answer you never will. If you're a professed Christian and don't know that, you never will. If you say you are of any religion or faith and don't know why you never will. We can say he was terriibly distressed and in need. Yes, you can say it all you want, get mad, talk back or whatever if that makes you feel good but if you don't know why as I stated you never will know.
Well in my simple opinion first he needed help from people who care. People, who would have above all things recognized him, see him, listen to him. No not just by seeing his exterior but in seeing him, acknowledging him, treating him as an equal, another human being. Evidently there was something lacking in his life? What was it that made him feel so isolated, alone, worthless and sh__. People walk this land each and every day who feel they
are are alone, nothing, unimportant, worthless to a society that judges who you are by material things, position, wealth and who recognizes you and wants to be with you because of that, not because of you.
Yes, crying physically and emotionally and no one hears and yes no one really cares. Many of them having the same hangups and needs. For all intents and purposes this boy was alone. He even could have been in the midst of family and a caring family and friends, yet, he was alone. He was alone in the midst of thousands and yes millions. He certainly was evidently a non-entity in society. He worked at Mac Donalds, probably for minimum wage and then lost a job and his girl. Now not knowing his internal thinking, yet being involved with troubled youth I could make an educated guess that he found himself totally abandoned, alone, with nothing and thus worthless. Yes, nothing. All he had that was his world was gone. Did he rationalize he had nothing to offer anyone and that there was no hope becuase no one cared. Oh, some just may cast it off, he had choices, he had to take repsonsiblity for his istuation and that is all true. Well my good friend it is not so easy for some who have had to deal with it day in and day out all their lives. Some can and some can't and some get help while otehr sget nada, nothing, zero. The rejection, the hurt, the ridicule, the lack of opportunity or help which can drive somone oevr the edge. Yes, not so easy my friend! Many might as i say, but some just reach that point, that break point.
So, please don't speak to me about all the help that is available, please don't. If you do not know first hand you just do not know. Sure if you can afford the counceling, the doctors, the medication there is help and even that is not a sure thing, but if you can't don't expect. Those free things are what they are. Yes, there are good people, few and far inbetween and taxed to the brink. many of those are also at the breaking point.
Oh he needed to get over it, yea, right, see you at church and bring a warm garment to shield you from the ice and cold. Yes, he did need help and yes the signs and symbols of his problem were all about. Perhaps he did not want to seek help or recognize the problem for himself, perhaps he tried and found the closed doors, the same types of reactions that got him to the point he was at? The burocracies and the organizations that move like mechanical parts with no emotion or feelings. The same pains over and over and over and over again and again. Perhaps in his mind he did not cross over the edge but had just found what he thought in his tormented condition was a solution. Of course at that point he was sick and dangerous. It is like a nurse just told me, the last one to know they are insane are the insane. The last one to see their depression are the depressed.
Well why kill others and not just himself? Well just consider where he was mentally and emotionally at that time. ,what those people were doing, where he was in his life and this moment and the season and I think we can all come to some reason that may have cuased him to take this horrible action. No not condone, just try to udnerstand. Perhaps it was his last venting, anger, hate, revenge, grasp, like he said he was going to be famous. In other words they will finally see me, he became a person, he was finally seen and was real and no one could ever deny his being, right, wrong or tragic.
We feed our children violence and garbage, morality in decay, values and ethics a mess and it is the era of it works for me, selfishness, covetousness, exploitation and greed. How he got the gun doesn't matter, criminals can get guns no matter what laws you pass. People will kill people with any means at their disposal. That is not the issue here and not the answer although that will be the cry of the ban the gun crowd.
Why would someone move to this horrific action? Certainly as was the case at Virginna Tech the person had deep emotional and mental problems. Yet, in the case of this shooter, a person that by all accounts of the people who knew him, was a sensitive, caring person and non confrontational it seems to lack an answer. However, you really don't need a doctor or counselor to tell you why, or what was the thing that drove him to this dreadful action. He said it all in his last statements and in this title.
Why, well in my opinion if you don't know that answer you never will. If you're a professed Christian and don't know that, you never will. If you say you are of any religion or faith and don't know why you never will. We can say he was terriibly distressed and in need. Yes, you can say it all you want, get mad, talk back or whatever if that makes you feel good but if you don't know why as I stated you never will know.
Well in my simple opinion first he needed help from people who care. People, who would have above all things recognized him, see him, listen to him. No not just by seeing his exterior but in seeing him, acknowledging him, treating him as an equal, another human being. Evidently there was something lacking in his life? What was it that made him feel so isolated, alone, worthless and sh__. People walk this land each and every day who feel they
are are alone, nothing, unimportant, worthless to a society that judges who you are by material things, position, wealth and who recognizes you and wants to be with you because of that, not because of you.
Yes, crying physically and emotionally and no one hears and yes no one really cares. Many of them having the same hangups and needs. For all intents and purposes this boy was alone. He even could have been in the midst of family and a caring family and friends, yet, he was alone. He was alone in the midst of thousands and yes millions. He certainly was evidently a non-entity in society. He worked at Mac Donalds, probably for minimum wage and then lost a job and his girl. Now not knowing his internal thinking, yet being involved with troubled youth I could make an educated guess that he found himself totally abandoned, alone, with nothing and thus worthless. Yes, nothing. All he had that was his world was gone. Did he rationalize he had nothing to offer anyone and that there was no hope becuase no one cared. Oh, some just may cast it off, he had choices, he had to take repsonsiblity for his istuation and that is all true. Well my good friend it is not so easy for some who have had to deal with it day in and day out all their lives. Some can and some can't and some get help while otehr sget nada, nothing, zero. The rejection, the hurt, the ridicule, the lack of opportunity or help which can drive somone oevr the edge. Yes, not so easy my friend! Many might as i say, but some just reach that point, that break point.
So, please don't speak to me about all the help that is available, please don't. If you do not know first hand you just do not know. Sure if you can afford the counceling, the doctors, the medication there is help and even that is not a sure thing, but if you can't don't expect. Those free things are what they are. Yes, there are good people, few and far inbetween and taxed to the brink. many of those are also at the breaking point.
Oh he needed to get over it, yea, right, see you at church and bring a warm garment to shield you from the ice and cold. Yes, he did need help and yes the signs and symbols of his problem were all about. Perhaps he did not want to seek help or recognize the problem for himself, perhaps he tried and found the closed doors, the same types of reactions that got him to the point he was at? The burocracies and the organizations that move like mechanical parts with no emotion or feelings. The same pains over and over and over and over again and again. Perhaps in his mind he did not cross over the edge but had just found what he thought in his tormented condition was a solution. Of course at that point he was sick and dangerous. It is like a nurse just told me, the last one to know they are insane are the insane. The last one to see their depression are the depressed.
Well why kill others and not just himself? Well just consider where he was mentally and emotionally at that time. ,what those people were doing, where he was in his life and this moment and the season and I think we can all come to some reason that may have cuased him to take this horrible action. No not condone, just try to udnerstand. Perhaps it was his last venting, anger, hate, revenge, grasp, like he said he was going to be famous. In other words they will finally see me, he became a person, he was finally seen and was real and no one could ever deny his being, right, wrong or tragic.
Sadly, I have seen it first hand in some real good loving, caring, kind, sincere and gentle people who are always getting kicked down, exploited, abused, riciculed, discarded, rejected and on and on. Perhaps I am just sensitive to it, thank God. These people try to deal with the rejection, the hurt the worthlessness each day and each day they meet the same types of people, the uncaring, the uncompassionate, the ones with little to no understanding or love in them and willre adily pass it off as his responsibility and all the while disavowing any of the possibilty that it just might be a society that breeds this behavior. How dare someone blame society? Yes these same types readily profess and brag about knowing God. Do they really know God? Do they really follow His precepts? Do they really follow His commands?
Yes, that boy killed those people but in reality we all had an opportunity to help and didn't. We all did when we stopped caring, becasme disinterested in people. Please don't say you don't know what I am talking about, we all do. We all did when we did not offer compassion and understanding to any of those who are and were similar types of personalities. They could be that next shooter? Yes, we all did when we didn't offer love. Reject it; think what you want, it is the simple facts of everyday life in this troubled world and you are either part of the problem or hope for the change.
Yes, we who profess we are believers should know the answer. It is not that we may have been able to alter anything but when I reflect on this young mans situation I think how much different could it have been if we recognized him, cared about his well being, understood what was at the root of his problems and just plain simply loved him? If we showed him he was someone, not worhtless but a unique creation, a one of a kind being. Maybe nothing would have helped but just maybe there would be nine people alive this morning.
The fact is in my opinion so I can be politically correct, the state of this nation and its people tells me by the signs and symbols this is just a taste of more to come. People are at the breaking point fiancially, spiritually and emotionally and our leadership at every level in my oinion are blind to it. It is easy for those who have to say take control. It is easy for thoe who never experienced to say, take responsibility. It is easy for those who overcame hardship to say get with it. Yet, not everyone is made the same and can do what others did. Don;t feel sorry for the,? The that says it all. They just don't see or understand and they think writing that check solves it all. In my opinion what a shame, what a sin.
Robert T. Melaccio Sr. Copyright 2007 Robert Melaccio
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)It must be nice to be able to blame all our shortcomings on parents, teachers, churches, and society as a whole. How freeing it must be to be able to absolve one's self of all responsibility! Give me a break. People who have lived horrible childhoods have turned out to be wonderful adults. People who had great childhoods turned out to be slime. At some point each individual has to take responsibility for his or her life and the choices he or she makes.Please log in to respond to this comment.Yes Anonymous in my opinion your response actually confirms much of what is stated in the article. Sorry, you evidently are willing to critize but not willing to put your name to it. A simple act that would give more credence to your comments. I accept your right to disagree and do agree with your comment concerning responsibility. Yet, Yes, choice is certainly what I can agree with, but what drives us to make these choices is the basis of what I wrote to. Yet, to totally ignore our society as being a part fo the problem is of itself the root of the problem. Yes, responsibilty is a key word, yes, but also for our fellow human beings. A point you evidently missed. Respectfully, RTMPlease log in to respond to this comment.
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