My country, the United States, has once again had a political assassination, not the first, and although one would wish otherwise, not likely the last. Charley Kirk has been blocked from speaking on campuses. but this time, he was shot dead at an event for speaking his mind and inviting dialogue. He was not advocating violence, but that's what he got.
Although I never subscribed to Kirk, I did listen to him now and then. He was a Christian, lived in Arizona, and believed in Conservative thinking. He expressed more than once that he thought it was valuable for people with differences to be able to express them, without violence. He is a loss of a solid person expressing one side of the divide in our country.
When people use the word evil to depict someone else's ideology, to me that is scary since a few mentally ill or extremists sometimes take it further.
I won't say more on this; but this week also, a young woman was stabbed to death on a commuter train by someone mentally ill, who should have been incarcerated for his own benefit and certainly hers. Violence is just too prevalent. There is, by the way, a video showing what happened to the young woman, but a lot of media will not show it as it does not suit their agendas. I watched it though as I can so relate to the horror of what happened to her. Charlie Kirk knew the risk he faced. She did not.
There was a blog written for this week, but I don't have the spirit to put it out right now. Not like the US has not known violent times, thinking of Martin Luther King Jr. and so many more; but it's still depressing, when leaders are taken out by one person and a bullet. Many people die but when it's a political leader, it's more than the rest of us. It's an attempt to destroy a way of thinking.
Right now, I know it's not healthy, but it's time for wine and sadness. Next week will be the intended blog, about a book, set also in a violent time. What the hell is going on or is there no way past that for human nature???
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