Connecticut
I've been sitting on this post, but I'm going to have to put it up to get it out of my head. Because I'm angry. Not at the knee-jerk hysteria or the media circus, though those are certainly aggravating; no, I'm angry at one man.
You want to blame someone? Look no farther than the man with his finger on the trigger.
We've become a society in which holding a person responsible for their own actions is virtually unthinkable. Blame the tool, blame social problems, blame the people who didn't stop him. But blame the person who actually did the act? Oh, no; that would be mean. We can't do that.
And I really do think that's part of the problem. Maybe most of the problem. Take the attitude that it's always somebody else's fault, that no one is ever responsible for their own circumstances, add in some bad choices or bad luck and a little mental instability, and suddenly it seems perversely reasonable to lash out. And then who you lash out at has more to do with who you can get away with lashing out at, rather than any logical analysis of who's actually responsible. Because all that really matters is that there's someone else to blame.
And as for the cries of "there ought to be a law"? Killing people outside of self-defense is already fucking illegal. And killing a bunch of kindergartners is about as reprehensible as it gets.
And I'm really, really angry at the guy who did it.
You want to blame someone? Look no farther than the man with his finger on the trigger.
We've become a society in which holding a person responsible for their own actions is virtually unthinkable. Blame the tool, blame social problems, blame the people who didn't stop him. But blame the person who actually did the act? Oh, no; that would be mean. We can't do that.
And I really do think that's part of the problem. Maybe most of the problem. Take the attitude that it's always somebody else's fault, that no one is ever responsible for their own circumstances, add in some bad choices or bad luck and a little mental instability, and suddenly it seems perversely reasonable to lash out. And then who you lash out at has more to do with who you can get away with lashing out at, rather than any logical analysis of who's actually responsible. Because all that really matters is that there's someone else to blame.
And as for the cries of "there ought to be a law"? Killing people outside of self-defense is already fucking illegal. And killing a bunch of kindergartners is about as reprehensible as it gets.
And I'm really, really angry at the guy who did it.