A glimmer of light midst the dark

I’d planned to share one of my posts about medieval history. Then I turned on the news. What is even more horrible about these mass shootings is that while we are horrified and our hearts bleed for the families who lost their loved ones, we feel no sense of surprise whatsoever. That is truly terrifying. This was the fourth mass killing in just two weeks. A grocery store assault in Kentucky that was racially motivated; the savage Anti-Semitic attack on a synagogue in PA; a yoga studio rampage in FLA by a self-proclaimed misogynist; and now twelve more dead in this CAL bloodbath. But midst the carnage, heroes often emerge. The story below is about one of them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifest...
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Published on November 08, 2018 14:14
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message 1: by May (new)

May I’m bothered by our ambivalence... seems like each tragedy numbs us more... oh, god, another shooting, and we blithely go in with our day...


message 2: by RJay (new)

RJay Yet no legislation has a chance of succeeding. What sad commentary on our society and democratic process. If anything, the current state of our political affairs does nothing else than showcase the shortcomings of our democracy. The gap between haves and have-nots widens - the 'class' system our forefathers hoped to eradicate, well at least some of them.


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