February 8, 2008

Friday Mourning

Fridays are normally jubilant days, especially when its pay day! Unfortunately disturbing news greeted my drive into work. This week has seen several people gunned down in what seems like senseless violence, and today it seems is no different.

Louisiana Tech Shooting
Three women were killed today in "The Rouge" when a unidentified woman walked into a nursing class at Louisiana Technical College. Unfortunantly not many details are emerging from this so not much to write about here. It seems that Louisiana is just getting more and more violent as this new (and young) year goes on. New Orleans has had 21+ murders just in January with several shootings occuring at Mardi Gras parades. Maybe its has something to do with the media only reporting the bad things...

Kirkwood City Council Shooting
The shooting at the Kirkwood City Council meeting is just disturbing. It appears that "Cookie" had a beef with the city council and decided that the best way to deal with thousands of dollars of fines and citations is to shoot people. From the details that have come out, this guy was a wack. Interviews with his mother prove this point. She felt that it was "bound to happen" eventually. Did this not ring a bell? This will surely get the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton involved but its not about race. I'm tired of the race thing. Clearly this guy had something wrong mentally and like several recent shootings, those with mental issues are the cause. Not the guns.


Super Bowl Shooting
Luckily this did not occur, but recent news has come out that another "troubled" individual wanted to cause mass chaos at the Super Bowl. It has come out that the indivual had 200 rounds of ammo and a AR-15 rifle (see picture). He drove within sight of the stadium but decided at the last second to change his mind...thankgoodness. And why did he want to cause death and destruction? He was denied a liqour license for his resturant. A BOOZE license! Holy cow, what is this country coming too? Luckily he'll be locked away for awhile! Lets have a good weekend!

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