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Post by Soccerhouse on Jun 18, 2015 8:12:26 GMT -5
Sorry, for the non-soccer post! But needed to be posted.... What the heck is wrong people today. This is so disturbing and makes me sick to my stomach. I was reading about the sicko involved in the batman theater shooting yesterday and then this. A complete absolutely horrific act of senseless violence. www.cnn.com/2015/06/18/us/charleston-south-carolina-shooting/index.htmlenjoy life, enjoy your family, hug your kids/friends when you see them.
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Post by Strikermom on Jun 18, 2015 8:47:54 GMT -5
Seconded that, every morning I have been waking up to a shooting here in Atlanta, and around the world. Exhausting and depressing thank goodness for soccer in the afternoons.
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Post by Keeperkeeper on Jun 19, 2015 8:33:33 GMT -5
This is truly heartbreaking.
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Post by mamampira on Jun 19, 2015 9:55:13 GMT -5
Makes me want to crawl into a hole and stay there. Our youth,today, actually all of us, have so much more brutality to confront, actors or spectators, we are all guilty. Because I have to believe that as a people, a nation, a community, as helpless as we feel at the hands of such horrific acts, we do have a responsibility to each other as human beings. I mean in the wake of all these crimes and injustices committed, how do we make amends because this cannot keep going on. Souls cannot take too much more of this.
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Post by guest on Jun 19, 2015 11:33:14 GMT -5
These are indeed horrible crimes. I can't even fathom what it was like to have gone through that.
However, let's take some solace in the fact that the murder rate in the US is less than half of what is was just 35 yrs ago. And that's true for virtually all crime categories. And it's not just the rate but the actual number itself.
Any of these crimes is one too many. But the data do show that we are living in a safer country than a generation ago.
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Post by spectator on Jun 20, 2015 21:42:41 GMT -5
Here is some perspective that can warm your heart blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2015/06/19/a-bow-to-charleston/my heart is broken for the victims families and Charleston. I'm a SC native so I'm taking this a little more personally and while racist a-holes are everywhere, this home grown one is not representative of my fellow Carolinians. I'm deeply proud of how heroic the victims families are. They are testaments to true Christian love and forgiveness. That is something that can lift us all during this horrific time.
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