So, yeah… « Order of Santa Ignora

So, yeah… « Order of Santa Ignora:

Everyone’s praying for the victims and their families, and you know, that’s a good thing. Prayer good. I’m firmly on the side of prayer. News shows and blogs are all beatifying the people who were on the wrong end of the gun, and demonizing the person who held the gun.

In 1992, a kid in my middle school pulled out a gun in first period science and opened fire.

[...] Over the weeks that followed, the truth came out. The boy with the gun had targeted two specific students, who had tormented him with verbal and physical abuse, until the only course of action he saw was to shoot them.

[...] When the released the names of the two kids shot, though, well, in such a small community as a school, it’s certain I’d know these bullies. But, I knew them. The week before the shooting, they’d pushed and shoved and taunted me in the cafeteria line, calling me a ‘fat cow’.

[...] So when one of these events splash across the collective conciousness, I do the only thing I can. I pray for those who mourn, for those who will never understand why, for the family and friends who didn’t, maybe couldn’t, stop it from happening no matter what the news anchors say, and whose mourning is just as real as anyone else’s. But there will be no cameras at that funeral, no visits from the President.

And I pray for the people who lie in bed tonight, wondering if they’ll be then next to reach for a gun.

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