{"id":11060,"date":"2015-12-02T19:56:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T00:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/?p=11060"},"modified":"2015-12-02T19:56:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T00:56:31","slug":"another-day-another-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/2015\/12\/another-day-another-tragedy.html","title":{"rendered":"another day, another tragedy…?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am numb from the news. Every day, it seems, we lose more Americans to domestic terrorism. And I will not call the murderous killers of innocent men, women, & children ‘mentally unbalanced.’ To me, killing\u00a0anyone<\/em> is a sign of unbalance. Even if it’s in self-defence, the act is not one of balance. It’s one of reaction: an act of violence, even if necessary, is not an everyday occurrence.<\/p>\n

It has become one, however. Or at least it’s beginning to feel that way.<\/p>\n

And my heart is breaking at the\u00a0levels of hate & inner horror that drive young men\u00a0it’s almost always young men…<\/em> to such vicious violence. Most recently — the mass shooting in San Bernadino — the shootings were quite obviously well-orchestrated: body armour requires time to put on. Where does the cold rage come from that sends a human being out to murder the disabled? Regardless of a presidential candidate’s bullying mime of a disabled journalist, there is no r\u00f4le model for this kind of hate.\"grief2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Grief is hard, especially the grief that is generalised, for people we don’t know, for families who will be minus members this holiday. Murders for unfathomable reasons.<\/p>\n

All I can do is breathe for the grieving, the injured. Try not to let my own anger\u00a0white-hot<\/em> overpower my pain for the victims. It’s nothing, I know. But it’s what I have. If you have better ideas, I’m listening. Because America is in trouble. And all I have is my own sorrow, anger, & inability to understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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