- 'you come home big when you're feelin small' Archived Message
Posted by Jackie
on April 22, 2020, 2:00 pm
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I posted here a while ago that this line by John Prine says so much in a few words. And last weekend's massacre in Nova Scotia, which happened just an hour from my home, is an extreme blatant example of the all-too-common phenomenon that Prine captured in one line. This guy dressed like a police officer and drove a car that had been made to look exactly like a police car. Through the night over a twelve hour period, he knocked on doors and killed the occupants, burnt 5 houses down (a couple of which were his own properties), shot people who were out walking, and stopped cars and killed the occupants. He even shot two dogs along with their owners. There are sixteen crime scenes. Details are slow to come out. It has been confirmed that some of the victims were known to him but many were random strangers. Not yet confirmed but reported is that two of the victims are his ex-girlfriend and her partner. Simply hating this guy and mourning the victims and sympathizing with those left behind is not enough. Alienation, hatred, bullying, ostracizing, entitlement. I don't know how we deal with those but I do know that there are too many men terrorizing their families, where we are too contented to ignore it, and sometimes spilling out into the community in ways that can't be ignored. Obviously, gun control is an issue. But focusing only on the guns is like thinking that castration is a solution to rape or child molestation. It doesn't remove the desire to use brute force and violence as a form of expression. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mass-killing-shooting-victims-remembered-1.5538032 |