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<\/a><\/div>\nAnother week, another shooting. The media reports, we grieve. We pray for the families and wonder why. One has to ask herself if this isn\u2019t some form of what Einstein would call insanity, because as government and law enforcement, we keep doing the same thing and\u00a0getting the same\u00a0results:<\/p>\n
Shooter walks in, kills people, is allowed to go down in a blaze of glory, whether that means dying while doing something he deems worth his life, or whether that means being known by the world and living to enjoy the attention \u2013 who cares if it is from a prison cell?<\/p>\n
Better to be known and locked up than to never be known at all.<\/em><\/p>\nThese guys are exhibitionists. And we are granting them their wish to be known.<\/p>\n
In the Lafayette shooting, the only info I am privy to at this point is that a 58 year old male is the guilty party. And that\u2019s good enough. All I truly need to know is that the authorities are on it and he is captured or dead. I don\u2019t need to know what he looked like, what his hobbies were, where he lived, what he believed, who his parents are, how he was raised, who he\u2019s married to, his eye color\u00a0\u2026 nothing.<\/p>\n
These guys need to be shamed and punished. Not put on exhibit. I know we don\u2019t necessarily MEAN to honor them (or maybe we do, if we have an agenda to promote). But by plastering their face everywhere and telling the world their deepest secrets and beliefs and past, we perpetuate the problem. We recruit others who are hungry for attention to follow suit, not because committing heinous crimes is good, but because committing heinous crimes will make them a \u201ccelebrity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clearly, in this culture, you do not have to be honor-worthy in order to receive honor.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, celebrity status is what so many are after today. We live in a selfie world where most are trying everything they can to promote self. Most common citizens do that in constructive \u2013 or at least harmless \u2013 ways. But there will always be the few who do it in destructive ways.<\/p>\n
Ceasing all media promotion of these exhibitionists is just the start. Those considering shooting up groups of innocent people should know a few things:\u00a0killing will not get them\u00a0known by the world. They will be prosecuted if they make it out alive, and by prosecuted, I mean if their victims have died, so will they. If they blow their own head off, they will still not be known by the vast majority, if others have been hurt in the process. And if they so choose to\u00a0go down in a blaze of so called \u201cglory\u201d, fine. But they will do it at the hand of citizens who are armed and trained to take them out \u2013 hopefully before they hurt a single soul, but definitely before they hurt a mass of souls.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s nothing glorious or honorable about the crimes these punks are committing. So let\u2019s start sending THAT message and see where it gets us.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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