I just need to write this down to help myself process all this chaos and violence. The countless shootings of black citizens, the terrorist inspired shooting at the Orlando gay night club slaughtering 50 lives, and now a group of at least four people going to a peaceful protest about the officer killing black men the last two days, and shooting 11 officers and killing four... I don't know the answer and there isn't one single answer or idea or action that will fix this. But things need to change. We need to show we care for eachother everyday not just on the days people may need it. I have never understood how people can be pushed to violent actions and nor do I want to but we have to right now. We have to have a dialogue between those that are frustrated and those that are causing frustration. Neither side thinks they are at fault and maybe they are both right but I need to believe that with more communication and understanding from both parties their can be some progress in helping us get rid of bigotry, or racism, or paranoia, or what ever it is that may cause all this violence and death. Perhaps more community outreach programs for officers, maybe better training, or a taser gun approach first with a police partner would help. I just dont know. But things are NOT getting better with our current approach of changing nothing. I heard during the Dallas sniper debats that people had not liked the militarizatin of officers with higher powered guns and if the officers had those higher powered guns then they could have stopped the shooter quicker because they would have pierced the armour they assume he was wearing. I feel like that is just responding to a problem and not adressing the root of the real problem which is; why are we allowing the selling of these high powered guns, semi automatic rifles and miltary grade weapons to the public in the first place??? Just cut the suppply of these high powered guns and we wouldnt need officers to step up their weapons power to begin with. At least not to an even high level then what the commentator suggested. I was going to write the next part of this on Facebook but I chose not to because I honesty dont know enough information or have any sort of response other than trying to self process this so i decided to write in here in this blog.
I have no real words right now of whats been going on. Im trying to process this as we all are. I've never felt this kind of frustation, helplessness, sadness, or call for unity. There isn't a single solution or single idea or single action that will solve these recent types of horrors. The world we create isn't made by one swift movement. It was made brick by brick. Sometime you place them yourself and some times people place it for you. If you want to make it a better, safer, peaceful, fair, inclusive, and beautifully diverse world, start laying down more of those bricks and take action to make it a reality. I woke up to news alerts of 50 dead in an Orlando gay club, I saw the video of the officer shooting the man on the floor face down, I heard the eye witness account of the shooter in Dallas killing 4 officers and have seen the video, I felt chills as the officer informed they are not confident they have all suspects accounted for and that there is a possibility of bombs in downtown Dallas. The only connection I see, whether you agree with it or not, is that guns were involved. Some types of guns should not be sold to citizens' hands and officers need to be trained in a way were thier first response isn't to slam a person down and pull out their pistol.
I have nothing else to say other than these are all someone's kids, mom, dad, sister, or brother. They each had a world they were building and you dont know how many bricks they were able to laydown for themselves. Don't judge someone based on what you expect them to build with their bricks, because the moment you are judging them is ths same moment you let someone else laydown a brick of bigotry or racism or hate in your world. You saw that same behavior somewhere else or let a couple of negative events of people cement that brick in your world. We get to choose which bricks we want to keep to build our world, please choose to keep the positive ones that will make you and the world around us better...
