How Many Will It Take?

All I can think about this morning is an article I read on August 3rd that said that through the 215th day of this year there have been over 250 mass shootings in the USA. A mass shooting in this case is one in which four or more people have been killed or wounded. That’s more than one mass shooting a day.

I don’t understand why some people become so angry that they go shoot people. Why? It’s happening around the world but it sure seems like it’s happening here more often. Why?

Man’s inhumanity to man. The phrase "Man's inhumanity to man" is first documented in the Robert Burns poem called Man was made to Mourn: A Dirge in 1784. It is possible that Burns reworded a similar quote from Samuel von Pufendorf who in 1673 wrote, "More inhumanity has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes." So it’s been going on for a while!

Just stop it will you, I’ve had enough!