> > Perhaps you've all heard about the recent shootings at the Jewish center in California. Most of the injured are in fact children. I can't get over what immense amounts of vileness and depravity would cause someone to do this. What sickens me even more is that this happens all too often, and most of the time you won't hear it on the news. Whenever you hear one of these, the reports announce statistics like 6000 shootings involving children last year, yet you only heard 1 or 2 on the news.
> > I don't know what to say, I just have to express my disappointment in humankind.
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> The day I read that in the paper, I also found a small article about a nut who killed four people and wounded two. That was also in L.A. but it was never mentioned on TV. (I watched a lot of TV news that day.) Was it because all of the people involved had Spanish surnames? If so, I find that pretty disgusting.
> Howard

It seems the violence always overshadows the good in this world. We seem to forget in the wake of tragedies like this that this world has so much to offer. Or, maybe it's because of that we are so repulsed-- that the children who lost their lives-- even the adults-- will no longer have the option to share in our joy in this place where we live. It does seem fitting that this is on the same page as Howard's 'Beautiful Places' thread. Everything doesn't even out in the end-- there is far more good. But the real evil is taking it for granted.

> > By-"if there was intelligent life out there, we'd know it by their laughter"-ron

Or their tears.

Chr"really, I usually am more cynical than this"is