It's sad for this guy's family. Sort of reminds me of a letter I read in the Infantry Museum at Benning, Christmas, last letter, etc. It's so sad. So fucked up. Why'd the guy shoot him? I feel some of these draconian laws push otherwise non violent offenders into a corner where they react in ways they normally wouldn't. Or prison essentially became a life sentence where jobs are practically impossible to get, forcing them back into crime. And the prisons are just universities for criminals. It's all so fucked up. I'm not condoning or explaining away what the guy did, I'm just stating a fact. I also know nothing about the guy, hell, he could've been a murderer prior to that for all I know.
Whatever, it resulted in a horrible outcome that could have been avoided most likely is all I'm saying. Politicians aren't interested in that though. Fixing shit wrong in government doesn't seem to be very high on their "to do" list.
There's so much fucked up and wrong in this country and "we the people" of all types pay the price. We really need to take our country back or all this misery will continue to spread and everyday will be punctuated with more and more tragedies of all kinds. It's out of control and "stability" is becoming more and more an archaic dead word in the realm of sociology and economics.
I'd love to see it happen peacefully but it seems average Americans aren't willing to do anything until absolutely forced to do so, by which time it could be too late to avert a civil war. Or revolution. Or breakup into a series of failed states. Or institution of a totalitarian military junta. Who knows? May not happen my time, but it's gonna happen. If we don't take back our country and put the brakes on the waste and buddy deals and politicians living like the Raj of India, we, and more moreso all your children and grandchildren, will be the ones to suffer the most, to lose the most.
