There are no more "six degrees of separation"...

[Hekate]

Until we confront our inner demons that produce Homegrown White Terrorism, this will keep happening over and over and over -- adding inexorably to the toll of 30,000 Americans a year.

Calls for moments of silence, thoughts, prayers -- are all just a way of demanding we remain in denial that this is really America as we have allowed ourselves to become. It's a demand that all of us sit down and shut up, to STFU. The call for dialog is more of the same, a pretense that there are "two sides" to the slaughter. The time for silence is over -- no more thoughts and prayers, please, just action. 💔

There are no "six degrees of separation" anymore. Two people from my town in California are among the seriously injured, and a whole bunch of my high school classmates from Hawai'i are in Las Vegas for a group "70th Birthday Party." My husband and I would have been there too except I am planning an anniversary party. My SIL and BIL just returned last week from attending their youngest son's wedding, in sight of where the massacre later took place.

My point is: We are all in the line of fire now. 💔

[zipplewrath]

1. We are the front lines

Dunno if it will affect our cultural behavior, but it has occurred to me that these conflicts are no longer something that happens "over there" and that we send our "brave sons and daughters" to fight. They are here on our streets and we are the front lines, whether we ever "volunteer" or not.

[Hekate]

2. Self kick