unchecked.

once again the severity of someone's mental illness goes unchecked. innocent blood was shed.  sounds like war?  no. this happened in a quiet town in a little state in america.  my shock turned to disgust, when the news came up on my reddit front page.
i was very vocal about the shooting in colorado on the opening night of The Dark Night Rises.  the perp deserved a fate worse than death.  but what would that accomplish?  my hatred would pollute the air, we'd all surround the perp with pitchforks and torches, bent on revenge.

all we would be is as bad as the perp and their crime.

now, let me be clear: mental illness is IN NO WAY justifying what happened on friday.  any rational person knows this. to blame this senseless, heartless crime on the need for more gun control is something i won't touch, but in the case of last friday and this past summer: these were both perps with a history of mental illness.
our society-this american society-only wants winners.  if you are broken or weak, you get stomped.  when someone who is supposedly weak does these heinous things, we all scratch our heads and ask why?
answers will come, over time.
right now is not the time for answers.  turn off the news and focus on something positive.
i am soul crushed to think of these little ones dying in fear or being in pain.
any parent felt the same way yesterday.  we have a maternal/paternal instinct to protect the young.  it's ingrained in our DNA.

i am soul crushed to think of these little ones dying in fear or being in pain. 
i'll leave you with this:  just picture the twenty little ones being led by the six adults holding hands, into a better place, away from this crazy, crazy world.


i'm beginning to not understand this strange, strange place anymore.