Johnnie and I took Alex to Toronto today for his cousins funeral. I saw so much pain and discomfort, tears and well wishes and family clinging to each other for comfort. Why? Because we as a society have become intolerant.
It used to be that when someone got angry there would be words, or the police would be called... in some circumstances a fight would break out and a nose would be bloody...maybe a lip would be split.....now....it's guns and weapons and killing....it's all senseless. Because of one persons intolerance to a little noise, a man is dead and a family is mourning. A mother and father are without thier son, a sister is without her brother, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends all without the person they love. Left behind to remember good times, bad times, happy and sad times....but memories and pictures are all that remain of the one they loved. Because he was too loud.
When did we become so intolerant? When did things change so much that another persons life means so little? That what we want is more important than what the next person wants or needs? When did it become the norm to pick up a weapon and hurt, mame or kill someone? And will the law be there to carry out justice for Terry? How much time is Terry's life worth? How is that decided? What if his family doesn't agree? Do we have a say in what happens to the man that took away the one we love?
Senseless acts. Nobody wins and everyone loses. When will it end?
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