A New year…..Old Tragedy

               For the New Year  or any year the horrific act that played out in Tuscon, Arizona last week is shocking , threatening and heart felt by most all I know. The most disturbing fact about that incident to me is that it is “familiar”.. Not new in any way.

The victims  change . They are the famous and the infamous, the children and the aged, family and people whose names we cannot pronounce at all. All of us  are still exposed and vulnerable to senseless catastrophic violence. Yes, I say, murder, even singular is a catastrophe for all of us. People kill other people .  Suicide is a downer too even if the mortality rate is only one.

Since the earliest times  this option to choose life or death has been exercised with the choice of weapon(s),  or motive , offered like  appetizers  at a banquet.  Do they really make a difference?  The main course is “Death”,  to someone  or  more than one.  That is  always another tragedy when over…

Then where do we get to feel better.? When can we put this “accepted behavior” behind us . We as human beings who wish to live and live unafraid must choose not to kill….for any reason. Even  murderers should be free from being killed when brought to justice…..Yes, capital punishment is useless in preventing killing. It actually perpetuates the act by a  planned , deliberate,  public  display of killing .

This  humane act   is not a new concept in any way but  .. it must be the only way. Countries and governments that have abolished..”killing”  or capital punishment have  so much less of these….old tragedies