Blame everyone why not blame Bush?

So will we blame every­one for the trou­bled actions that result­ed in a ter­ri­ble tragedy in Ari­zona. Accord­ing to Pima coun­ty Sher­iff, Dup­nik alleges with­out any proof at all, (strange thing if your in law enforce­ment) that all man­ner of peo­ple are to blame for the actions of a men­tal­ly ill young man whom the Sher­iff alleged­ly had con­tact with and could have tak­en some action to stop what hap­pened. What is real­ly puz­zling is why dup­nik choose to blame every­one but him­self.

Guilt alleged­ly is a pow­er­ful thing, per­haps that was part of what drove this man to do what he alleged­ly has done by going on TV and mak­ing accu­sa­tions against peo­ple who did not even live in the same state as the accused. Why not blame the par­ents, they must have known there was some­thing wrong, why not blame the neigh­bors, they knew there was some­thing wrong, why not blame the stu­dents that went to high school with this young man, or how about the col­lege stu­dents and what about his teach­ers, are they not to blame as well?

It seems so strange that every­one is to blame when the unthink­able hap­pens, when we have peo­ple on both sides say­ing things that are less than appro­pri­ate.

If it were true, that what peo­ple say is to blame for all the worlds prob­lems then we would sure­ly all be doomed, because every day some­one says some­thing that may hurt some­one’s feel­ings, or worse, offend them, but that does not mean that they are to blame for a car acci­dent that claims the life of a young child.

It does not help to blame peo­ple, to point the fin­ger of blame is not the solu­tion to the human con­di­tion.

We are human and that will nev­er change, noth­ing can be done, there is no cure, you can­not make a law to cure the human con­di­tion.

This is why all the laws in the world will not change what it means to be human, what it means to be respon­si­ble for the things we choose to do, from run­ning a red light, to speed­ing, every day we all make choic­es that effect the out­come of our lives.

It may be easy to blame some­one else for the fail­ure of oth­ers, but that will not change the sad events that took place nor will it stop anoth­er such event from every occur­ring again, all we can do is to learn from this fail­ure and try to do a bet­ter job in the future, sad­ly that means that as a race, as a human we may see anoth­er tragedy hap­pen again in the future, as bad as that is, as bad it would be, there is noth­ing that can deter a bad choice, because that per­son that makes the bad choice is respon­si­ble for those deci­sions.

His­to­ry tells us that no amount of law, nor even good will can change bad inten­tions, there are things that can be done, how­ev­er even­tu­al­ly because we are human, this will hap­pen again, until we find a way to care for every­one in our soci­ety and that is just not some­thing that is like­ly to hap­pen any­time soon laws or no laws, new rules or no rules, the out­come of these sad events are an indi­ca­tion that we need to care more for our human con­di­tion, when we see some­one with a men­tal issue, we need to do some­thing even if it is just telling some­one in author­i­ty that a prob­lem may exist.

In this case, the col­lege, where it was alleged, that he may have had some men­tal issue that might effect his safe­ty and the safe­ty of oth­ers, if that was indeed the case, and it appears like­ly, action should have been tak­en, it was not, we now know that a let­ter to the par­ents was not enough action, but how much is enough and how much is too much? Just pass­ing numer­ous laws and then just for­get­ting it ever hap­pened, will not change the chances of some­thing like this hap­pen­ing in the future, nor will attempt­ing to ban guns stop crim­i­nals from doing crim­i­nal things.

The Columbine High School mas­sacre occurred on Tues­day, April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School.

This was before 911, and before schools installed met­al detec­tors yet it did not stop it from hap­pen­ing, again.

We have seen far too much of this kind of thing, yet, of all the things that have been done and all the things that we can do to remain aware of the suf­fer­ing of those that have men­tal issues, we must try hard­er, pass­ing law after law will not help, but being aware of suf­fer­ing and doing all we can to help that indi­vid­ual can help reduce the like­ly hood that this would hap­pen again, that is the only true way to real­ly help.

It is when we do not take action, when we see a prob­lem and do noth­ing, or when we wait until after a tragedy has occurred to try and take action that is when we do more harm than good, car­ing for our neigh­bors is the only true way we can help them.

Point­ing the fin­ger of blame with the idea of using it to gain polit­i­cal ground is per­haps even worse that the trag­ic events that occurred this past Sat­ur­day, sim­ply because it con­tributes to the prob­lem, it does not solve the prob­lem, so when I see news reporters, mak­ing reck­less state­ments, and com­men­ta­tors blam­ing every­one but the per­son who actu­al­ly did the alleged crime, that enables the next per­son to do the same thing lat­er, and that is why the name call­ing and the blame game should stop, how can we expect soci­ety to be civ­i­lized when the media will not act like they are civ­i­lized.

Shame on the media for the way they have behaved, shame on the adver­tis­ers for adver­tis­ing on those net­works that have used this to a polit­i­cal advan­tage.

Car­ing for those that are sick and hurt, and doing the right thing, which means telling some­one in author­i­ty and then hold­ing that per­son account­able for a fail­ure to take action that is one way this could have been pre­vent­ed, but blam­ing oth­er peo­ple for polit­i­cal gain, is a shame on the pro­fes­sion of jour­nal­ism.