I tend to keep my religious and political views out of the public eye…and for good reason. That said, yesterday’s tragedy, the shooting in Newtown, has clearly moved these topics to the forefront of every news and social media outlet. Normally, I’d say that was fine, the right choice even. We need to know, to see such horrors, to contemplate the ramifications of our choices, in the hopes that we, as a society, might one day learn our lesson and stop repeating our mistakes. Our failures as a people must strike home for them to have an impact on us, for them to be an impetus of change, of betterment.
However, the people who died yesterday, the children and the families who must suffer their loss ARE NOT YOUR FUCKING AGENDA!
Casting blame rather than accepting it is no solution to the problem. Throwing out statistics about the successes of gun control or gun ownership won’t EVER change the fact that a person intent on hurting others will find a way to do it. Claiming the lack of “God” in schools (which is absolute BS, by the way) is the cause of it or the the flip side of there being too much religion (for the Atheists and alike) are all excuses to explain away our unwillingness to accept the responsibility of our actions.
We, as humans, have failed.
Our selfishness, our greed, our lack of compassion (not to be confused with a lack of religion) are to blame for the tragedies our nation suffers, over and over again. Until we, as a whole, understand that we have an obligation to one another, a social contract that binds us together for however long we’re here, we will never be free of such horrors. Until we are able to set aside our petty differences, our baseless reasons for hate, we will never live to see an age where people can coexist without violence.
There are obvious steps to helping this along, which I’m sure folks will argue are the exact same policies and politics I’m railing against here, but those will always fail until we, as individuals, accept responsibility for our actions. And by this, I mean EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US.
Sadly, I don’t see this happening.
Now, if you’ve read this far and are looking for answers, I’m sorry to disappoint you. I’m as clueless as the next hunk of flesh that inhabits this world. I only know that WE are the cause of our own misery. Only WE can be the solution. Work to better yourself and cherish the time you have left because it is finite. Do good where you can and cause no harm, and perhaps, someday, we might cure the pestilence that is humanity.
