You can't always ignore everything.

The world is so corrupt and awful now, that you have to force yourself to ignore or shake off a lot of the bad news. But something has been really bothering me lately, and a recent headline just hit me and made it worse. I'm so sick of all of these senseless killings. Granted, I believe that the majority of times one human takes the life of another are senseless...these are just blowing my mind. In case you don't know, here's what has happened locally in my area lately. At the middle school across the street from my parents house, also the house I grew up at and the middle school I attended, one 9th grader walked up to another 9th grader, pulled out a gun, put it to his head, and pulled the trigger. He died soon after. One week later, a faculty member at UAH opened fire during a faculty meeting. She killed 3 and injured more. There have also been a few more around Florence and Huntsville since then. But now Kendall Berry, who was a running back at FIU, was stabbed to death outside the rec center. While minding his own business.

I don't get it. I just can't fathom what would motivate one human being to take another's life. Even when you nullify the fact that it's wrong and it's against the law, it is still completely pointless. Think about it this way. If you're totally lacking any grace or any love and you want to get back at someone for what they did, why would you kill them? There's no justification in that. They're dead. They've moved on. Now you're the one who has to live with the guilt. There's no sense of revenge, unless you count the families that you've emotionally destroyed. Even in that sense, the victim is no longer in this world and is no longer being affected by tragedy and grief. So all you've done is ruined the lives of innocent people. Regardless of that slightly morbid statement, it still blows my mind. Almost brings me to tears. These people were robbed of the rest of their lives because of a bad decision. There are so many decisions we make every day. But these are completely irreversible. I just don't get it. It's tearing me apart right now. I don't really even know what else to say. It just breaks my heart. All of these people had a family. Some had kids. They had moms, dads, brothers, sisters, grandparents and friends. All of these survivors will have to live with this the rest of their lives. There won't be a day that goes by that they don't remember they are gone. The main thing that bothers me is how senseless all of these murders really were. Amy Bishop was denied tenure. So that means you should kill your fellow staff members? Todd Brown was in 9th grade. What can you possible do in 9th grade to justify being murdered? Even if he "deserved" it. When I hear about terrible people doing terrible things, I don't wish death upon them. I never have. Maybe I haven't been put in the right situation. But I pray that I never will.

It all just seems so senseless. These people are no longer living. It absolutely breaks my heart to see this stuff in the news. People dying over a girl. Over firing someone. Over wannabe gang related crap. Over a petty disagreement. Why?