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I read something very sobering on Facebook yesterday. It was a repost of somebody's tweet. It talked about how, after everything was done and the police and others went in, the most unnerving aspect for them to deal with was all the cell phones ringing... the victim's loved ones were desperately trying to contact them and find out if they were ok.
Different things affect people differently, but as long as you have sympathy and empathy there really isn't a wrong way to react. Your reactions are natural, they are what they are. This particular thought stopped me in my tracks. I can't explain why this and not as much the tragedy to begin with. Maybe because it showed me how deep these tragedies go. It drove home the point that the victims are not only the ones killed, but it reaches far deeper. This is the aspect that I cannot stop thinking about. Both the direct victims and the indirect victims.
I am going to respectfully request that everybody leave politics out of this thread. There are plenty of other threads for that, and they are active. Please reserve your political comments for those threads.
Thank you for reading.
I read something very sobering on Facebook yesterday. It was a repost of somebody's tweet. It talked about how, after everything was done and the police and others went in, the most unnerving aspect for them to deal with was all the cell phones ringing... the victim's loved ones were desperately trying to contact them and find out if they were ok.
Different things affect people differently, but as long as you have sympathy and empathy there really isn't a wrong way to react. Your reactions are natural, they are what they are. This particular thought stopped me in my tracks. I can't explain why this and not as much the tragedy to begin with. Maybe because it showed me how deep these tragedies go. It drove home the point that the victims are not only the ones killed, but it reaches far deeper. This is the aspect that I cannot stop thinking about. Both the direct victims and the indirect victims.
I am going to respectfully request that everybody leave politics out of this thread. There are plenty of other threads for that, and they are active. Please reserve your political comments for those threads.
Thank you for reading.
I read something very sobering on Facebook yesterday. It was a repost of somebody's tweet. It talked about how, after everything was done and the police and others went in, the most unnerving aspect for them to deal with was all the cell phones ringing... the victim's loved ones were desperately trying to contact them and find out if they were ok.
Different things affect people differently, but as long as you have sympathy and empathy there really isn't a wrong way to react. Your reactions are natural, they are what they are. This particular thought stopped me in my tracks. I can't explain why this and not as much the tragedy to begin with. Maybe because it showed me how deep these tragedies go. It drove home the point that the victims are not only the ones killed, but it reaches far deeper. This is the aspect that I cannot stop thinking about. Both the direct victims and the indirect victims.
I am going to respectfully request that everybody leave politics out of this thread. There are plenty of other threads for that, and they are active. Please reserve your political comments for those threads.
Thank you for reading.
It's hard to leave politics out of this or at least mistake what someone says as being political.
With that said, honestly, I shrugged.
Not because I don't care for people, but because these incidents are blasted throughout media and social circles that I've become numb to it.
If anything, it's a reminder that the world is real, a crack in the usual illusion of safety, that comes with living in a developed nation.
I don't know. This one hit me harder than most of the other mass shootings--I mean, other than the one where the nut shot to death 30 6 year-old kids; that one still takes the cake for most horrific shooting ever. The shooting of the other night strikes home because it clearly shows how we here in the West, with our "live and let live" attitudes, are so very different than those who hold these archaic beliefs which demand everyone conform to some ideal scribbled in a book well over a 1000 years ago.
Think what you will about gay people, what they do and how maybe you would not want your sons and daughters to do it. Think what you will about two men kissing. Hell, think what you will about men having anal sex and/or dressing as women. None of that matters when it comes to the obvious--those people do not deserve to die. It could be argued that those who wish them harm deserve to though.
I read something very sobering on Facebook yesterday. It was a repost of somebody's tweet. It talked about how, after everything was done and the police and others went in, the most unnerving aspect for them to deal with was all the cell phones ringing... the victim's loved ones were desperately trying to contact them and find out if they were ok.
Different things affect people differently, but as long as you have sympathy and empathy there really isn't a wrong way to react. Your reactions are natural, they are what they are. This particular thought stopped me in my tracks. I can't explain why this and not as much the tragedy to begin with. Maybe because it showed me how deep these tragedies go. It drove home the point that the victims are not only the ones killed, but it reaches far deeper. This is the aspect that I cannot stop thinking about. Both the direct victims and the indirect victims.
I am going to respectfully request that everybody leave politics out of this thread. There are plenty of other threads for that, and they are active. Please reserve your political comments for those threads.
Thank you for reading.
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