RE: Active Shooter Situation at Ohio State
November 28, 2016 at 8:40 pm
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2016 at 8:47 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(November 28, 2016 at 8:03 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 28, 2016 at 7:55 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: That really makes me angry. Someone comes here as a refugee and we take him in (as we should), but then he turns around and tries to kill our people. I mean, really? What a complete idiot.
Why does it make you more angry than the Charleston attacker, who was a homegrown rightwing nutter? As so many before him. Among them the Bundy bunch, who got away with - not actually killing someone - but occupying government facilities while voicing death threats?
It doesn't make me more angry, per se. Innocent lives being taken is horrendous regardless. But yes, it does make me a particular kind of irritated when we take someone in and they turn around and try to kill us.
To use an analogy, it's like... what's worse: Someone breaks into your house and kill your family? Or someone you take into your home to give shelter to turns around and kills your family?
Both our awful and infuriating, but the latter arouses a particular type of anger.
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