The whole world is watching....

Horror is not stopped by borders and within minutes of the massacre in Connecticut, people were talking about it here.  And here also, tears were shed.  Everywhere, there are parents and children. teachers and schools, so a universal empathy kicks in.  There is grief.  There were prayers and opinions offered.  However, people's perspective living outside the bubble of El Norte's culture is one of sheer disbelief.  "What is happening to that country?  It is committing suicide, slowly, in front of our eyes.  Can't they see it?"

Polarization is so profound at this point, it is hard to see a way out of our self-created mess(es).  My opinions about guns and violence are my own, but basically boil down to, "Don't need 'em. Don't want 'em."  They are antithetical to the way I chose to live my life, but that's just me.  I realize I am never gonna convince Ted Nugent otherwise and that is frustrating and, in no small part irritating enough, to want grab a two by four and.... see what a trap that is? 

"Since there is this, there is that, and since this happens, that happens.  Since there is none of this, there is none of that and since this dies, that dies."