Thursday, December 27, 2007
Killing
Here we go, another bomb, another couple dozen folks killed. It's bigger news this time because of the target - Benazir Bhutto. It got me to wonder about killing. The USofA is often in the news as a kill-crazy country. We have our share of Columbines, Colorado ministries and shopping mall shootings that make big news. However, we don't have the indiscriminate bombings that happen in so many other countries. (If I said, Muslim countries people would complain, but let's face it, they have more than their share of bombings).
The big difference is that in the USofA we usually kill strangers up close and personal. Not for us is the impersonality of a bomb in a crowd - we want to see the face of our victim as the .38 slug snuffs them out. I wonder why that is? Some people blame our cowboy and outlaw west, but I don't agree. Most killers today couldn't identify when and what was the cowboy west, let alone be influenced by it. The only good thing about suicide bombers is that you don't have to waste any time and money prosecuting them and then watch them go free because of some law technicality. That happens way too much in the USofA.
By the way, in the Detroit Free Press today, they say there's a 2 in 3 chance that if you murder someone you won't be caught. How would you like odds like that on a race horse? Think about those numbers! For every three people killed; two of the killers are going to be free to kill again. Think about that the next time you visit Detroit, er, for whatever reason you'd want to anyway.
By the way, CBS News had the seriously redundant title Bhutto Killed In Deadly Suicide Blast. How could killed and suicide be anything else but deadly?
Labels: crime, government, gripes, michigan
