Friday, July 20, 2012

What's Wrong with US?



12 - Aurora, Colorado – 7/20/12
13 - Fort Hood, Texas – 11/5/09
15 - Binghamton, New York – 4/03/09
5 - DeKalb, Illinois – 2/14/08
8 - Omaha, Nebraska – 12/05/07
32 - Blacksburg, Virginia – 4/16/07
5 - Salt Lake City, Utah – 2/12/07
5 - West Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania – 10/02/06
9 - Red Lake, Minnesota – 3/21/05

What the fuck?


Please excuse my language.  I don’t normally use obscenities, but this 55 topic is obscene, and getting to be far too “normal” here in the United States.  These are the numbers shot and killed, the locations and dates of the “Worst U.S. Mass Shootings in Recent Years” as reported by WTMJ Newsradio.  I don't even know how to process this...
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23 comments:

  1. JeanJuly 20, 2012 at 10:58 AM

    Every once in a while we are reminded that we live in an evil, corrupted world. It is so simple....and so sad.

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  2. Maude LynnJuly 20, 2012 at 11:41 AM

    That's my reaction, too: when the hell did this become "normal?"

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    1. Other MaryJuly 20, 2012 at 12:29 PM

      Sadly it's way too common, especially in the US. I couldn't even fit all of them into a 55 between now and Columbine.

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  3. BubbaJuly 20, 2012 at 1:17 PM

    I'd say I'm glad about Michigan (especially Detroit) not making that list, but I don't know if it merely didn't make the cut for your 55. Plus, it's hard for me to use the word "glad" in the context of such a heinous list. I don't know what's wrong with us, but it better improve soon!

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    1. Other MaryJuly 20, 2012 at 2:23 PM

      Michigan didn't make it. Wisconsin did, but didn't fit in the 55. :o(

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  4. WanderJuly 20, 2012 at 1:58 PM

    This is nothing new Mary...we just give more thought to it now...we have radio, TV, and the internet to let us know when something like this happens.
    Now what we have to look forward to is people using this tragedy for their own benefit, weather it be monetary, religious or political.
    These things happen because there are sick people out there and they do sick destructive things. it isn't a societal thing or caused by TV or music or....

    thank you Mary for acknowledging this tragedy in a way that was respectful and selfless.

    Wander

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  5. G-ManJuly 20, 2012 at 3:06 PM

    Mary Bach...
    I was disgusted when I turned on the morning news.
    And Michigan should have been on the top of your list, in the 30's a maniac set off a bomb in an elementary school in Bath Mi. killing 36 children.
    Either way, 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' could happen at any time,
    Powerful and morbid 55
    Thanks for playing, and have a Kick Ass Week-End

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    1. Other MaryJuly 20, 2012 at 4:18 PM

      Thanks G-man. How terrible is it, that I didn't even remember that?
      Hope you have a kick-ass weekend too my friend.

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  6. ayalaJuly 20, 2012 at 3:39 PM

    What is wrong with us ? Horrible and heartbreaking news today .

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    1. Other MaryJuly 20, 2012 at 4:19 PM

      It sure was. But your poetry is always so uplifting - thanks for that.

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  7. ScarletJuly 20, 2012 at 5:21 PM

    Yes, it is sad that it is happening, not only in your country but also in our country ~

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    1. Other MaryJuly 20, 2012 at 7:07 PM

      Sorry to hear that Heaven, it's beyond words (at least any words I can come up with).

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  8. Brian MillerJuly 20, 2012 at 5:34 PM

    ugh was hearing all about htis on my drive out today...scary stuff...and you know...i dunno...why do some people get this far?

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    1. Other MaryJuly 20, 2012 at 7:09 PM

      I don't know Brian...I wish we could know what's inside his head... why he thought this was the option of choice.

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  9. Pat HattJuly 20, 2012 at 6:46 PM

    Yeah wtf indeed. These whack jobs need to just off themselves and leave everyone else alone if they are so intent on shooting someone.

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  10. Other MaryJuly 20, 2012 at 7:11 PM

    But no killing would be even better Pat.

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  11. JeanJuly 20, 2012 at 10:05 PM

    "Deliver us from evil."

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  12. goatmanJuly 24, 2012 at 3:26 PM

    Everyone (including myself) sits idly by while a 3 million backed IRA lobbies congress to enforce the second amendment (right to bear arms) pushing for every weapon short of a cruise missile to be available to any moron who can attend a gun show or order on internet.
    Why are we surprised?

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