I awoke around 2:00 a.m. to head
to the bathroom, and when I was
done, I see my phone had some
messages, so I checked them, and
the news was not good. Mass shooting
in Orlando, at the time something
like 20 dead and I forget how many
were injured.
I went back to bed, and awoke
around 6:00 a.m., and the news
was worse.
When the fuck is this shit
going to stop? I wish I
had the answer.
One more thing:
This country has surely lost
its way.
😓
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so sad.
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It is sad…
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(Sorry for a long comment but I couldn’t help to wright.)
The people have the right to own weapons for use as the last resort to prevent in case the government goes tyrannical, but not for use for violent crimes. That was what I learned in the US.
It was about 60 years ago when I went to the US for study. America then was like a heaven to foreign visitors especially to a young man like me. Everyone I met on the street would smile at me saying “Hi”, “How’s she going? “, “Doing okay at school?”, etc. There were some people who weren’t so nice, of course, but such people accounted only for about 1 percent of all. The rest of the 99 percent were so nice and kind. The towns I stayed in those days were like parks or well-kept gardens as a whole.
After I came back to Japan, I got busy working, raising my family and all that. I couldn’t revisit the US but heard things in the country were in rapid changes, but I couldn’t believe it.
After I got to the mandatory retirement age of 60, I began to have time to make private overseas trips, and my “second home town” in America was naturally the first place to go. And to my surprise and disappointment, I found what I heard about the changes in my good old America were all true. Smiles on the faces of the people on the street were all wiped off. There wasn’t even a hint of a smile on the face of the waiter or waitress at a restaurant until you tipped them.
Why all these changes? I hear of the division between the “1 percent” and the “99 percent” of the people. The “1 percent” own most of the wealth, and the “99 percent” only subsist on what’s left.
In good old America, I could even feel the pride of the politicians running for the presidency that “I’ll be the one to lead American to become an even better place for all to live in.” But today, I have a feeling that candidates for the presidency are trying either to work for the “1 percent” or become fascist or dictator themselves. I really hope, of course, I am utterly wrong because the US still have a tremendous impact on many other countries on the globe.
Thank you for the long comment. When I was growing up, we never had the mass killings like we have now. You’re correct about the 1%, as they have gotten so greedy, and controlling politicians is sickening. I see it as, Trump doesn’t want to be President, but wants to be a dictator. Either way, if he does win the election, this country is doomed.
Thank you
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It is a terrible tragedy, and I am of course very sorry for all the people hurt and all the family and friends left behind.
I guess that in all social media, people are covering profile pics with flags to sympathize, think I read something about that yesterday.
This case reminds me, and probably all Norwegians, about our day of terror, 22 July 2011. And as you describe it, waking up the day after… we woke up the day after to find that almost 80 young people had been shot, executed, and the whole country was in shock. For what seemed to be a very long periode of time…
But we always continue, find our ways around, getting over it. Bataclan, Charlie Hebdo, Zaventem, Brussels, Paris, Madrid, London, 9/11. As dandelions, we rise again, thinking, “oh, that was a blow”, and then it is all forgotten. Until next time.
Orlando will be the same.
But as a european, in a boringly peaceful country, I need to ask; can you please get rid of the right to buy, own and use guns? That would help, wouldn’t it?
Peace and love ❤ Ingeborg
But criminals will find ways to get guns anyway, it is not full solution, is it? …What is strange to me – little children and wunerable youngsters are persecuted by psychiatry, but mad violent criminals are roaming free, shooting people and everyone has to respect their rights… Curious.
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That is a given that criminals will get a gun(s) and nobody does a damn thing about it…
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Yes. Some criminal will find guns away. Psychiatric patients, small children, suicidal teen agers, unbalanced persons, angry husbands or wives will NOT find guns. Most terrorists will NOT be able to get a gun “just like that”. I read in a newspaper yesterday that 94 people die every week after being shot in the US. That is four times the number of people dead in road accidents every year in Norway. It’s like 4 classes of first graders. The numbers are overwhelming.
Getting rid of guns is not the whole solution. But it would really make a huge difference, and for non-americans in the outskirts of Europe, well, we just don’t understand the lack of effort there seem to be to do something about this.
For numbers, check this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/mass-shootings-in-america/
Meant “anyway” in the first sentence …
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Well, of course You are right about the need of better gun controle. I just meant it will not sort the problem as a whole. …I guess I mainly wanted to stress that it was a mad criminal, not just any gun owner. …I remember years ago, just when I was “coming out” there was attack in gay club in London where I lived at the time. …Shattered
It has gotten so out of control, I doubt if any thing will be done about it. Gun control has seem to have fallen on deaf ears.
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Your right, it is a challenge, and a big one at that…
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Thank you Tony…
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