It certainly would have been helpful to have known why this happened. Having said that, if it had been my grandfather, I doubt I would be very understanding.
You don't have to be related to someone to recognize the sorrow in their violent death, whoever they are. You don't have to know people who've died in inexplicable breakdowns to work out that not every assailant was ‘trash.’ And, somehow, I don't see you exulting in everyday mayhem on the street because those people were ‘useless.’
I saw the video. The detachment from the act by the shooter was telling. I did not hear or perceive some fixed up gang banger, or a belligerent drunk or some walk by knock out gamer (those people are trash to me). Something was tragically wrong, and something terrible on a real gut wrenching level happened to an innocent old man.
If any journalist takes this on, a different story may emerge from just some simple posting of a face book sensationalist.
Just to be clear though on my all too frail emotional human condition, there are, to me, real disgusting people out there, like the sickos that kidnapped and tourtured the mentally disabled kid several months back. If they got several beatdowns while in jail, I'd give it a great big thumbs up.
It certainly would have been helpful to have known why this happened. Having said that, if it had been my grandfather, I doubt I would be very understanding.
You don't have to be related to someone to recognize the sorrow in their violent death, whoever they are. You don't have to know people who've died in inexplicable breakdowns to work out that not every assailant was ‘trash.’ And, somehow, I don't see you exulting in everyday mayhem on the street because those people were ‘useless.’
I saw the video. The detachment from the act by the shooter was telling. I did not hear or perceive some fixed up gang banger, or a belligerent drunk or some walk by knock out gamer (those people are trash to me). Something was tragically wrong, and something terrible on a real gut wrenching level happened to an innocent old man.
If any journalist takes this on, a different story may emerge from just some simple posting of a face book sensationalist.
Just to be clear though on my all too frail emotional human condition, there are, to me, real disgusting people out there, like the sickos that kidnapped and tourtured the mentally disabled kid several months back. If they got several beatdowns while in jail, I'd give it a great big thumbs up.