A Sad Distance
One of my casual friends, known her for many years, recently shared that facebook thing about hammers and baseball bats killing more people than guns. I responded with something about having fewer massacres if that were true, then shared the appropriate Snopes link that gives real numbers. I was truly amazed by her reply:
It may be dramatic but the real truth is that people kill people, it doesn't matter what weapon is used, could be a fryin pan, knive, screwdriver, gun, u name it and moreso people ate busy killing each other just with tneir words. When does it stop? When we all stop feeling the need tobe right or justified or blaming everybody else for their problems. The United States was in a super sized funk before Obama but your dear president hasnt helped matters much more. It does take more than one person but he has sure promoted getting God out of all our pictures and having us lean on him aka the government. It is a JOKE!!!! Really lets focus on something that really matters. How many babies die, how come we have so many ho eless, how come I pay such high taxes and still feel like lower income and the people areou d me struggle even more than we. Why cant. I be entitled to my opinion or thoughts without being critiqued but heaven forbid I talk about God or religion. People kill people ever since the beginning of time. I've had enough. If everybody that plastered bad crap on here would focus on something positive just one day it might make a huge difference in many lives.
This is someone who's walked with me in the Relay For Life, as I've walked with her as her husband has struggled with cancer. They've come to my Christmas parties, we've gone fishing together. They always struck me as rather apolitical, so our conversations never went in that direction. The conversation has always been pleasant. Until now.
Damn. I hate this.
