Runester

I’m not even sure what to say, to this. I know I’m not the only one having a hard time putting into words what this massacre is like … the news casters and public officials keep repeating words. Like, “this is a terrible, terrible, terrible tragedy” or “this is just horrible, horrible …” Repetition amplifies the meaning because they don’t know what other words to use to express how terrible or how horrible this really is. Language has failed them and it fails me, too.

Is there no end to this? No end to he misery and heartache and infinite loss associated with each incident of mass murder? Last week it was an office shooting in Troy, Michigan.  Last year it was the Amish children murdered by a lone gunman. It looks like this is the face of our century: Random acts of terror, death, and mayhem. We all get to play the reverse-lottery, in which going to school, or work, or just walking the streets may make us one of the victems. And while the officials try to legislate this away and law enforcement does a good job of clean-up after the fact … I don’t see any effective means of making this stop.