Reply #12: I'm the first person to criticize Texas and Texans, but there's nothing funny about this. [View All]

I'm not trying to scold anyone for being flip in their post here. It's easy for our minds to confuse tragedy with narrative in our culture, since we communicate through just a few private channels of information. Jokes, however irreverent, are allowed and even expected.

But don't forget the real story(s) here. People died, just like in Arizona.

Just remember the horrors ten years ago, when 3,000 people were killed at once.

There were few snide remarks then, not because we had resolved our political differences, but because we let go of the narrative and saw the real tragedy.

Five people are killed here.
Fifteen there.
A Congresswoman has her head blown through.
A doctor trying to help women; many, many women.

There's a lot more.

Several murderers (a.k.a. terrorists) killing false "villains" that are actually just normal Americans trying to make this a better place to live.

We have a fake "underground" media on radio that preys on people's fears to drive their profits, and a home for their misguided audience on cable t.v. as well.

We know what the problem is and the longer it takes us to turn our head away from the "Islamic Terror" of far, far away and focus on how to stop the increasing violence in our country...the longer the wars will last way over there in "Islamic" countries.

Peace