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Originally Posted by emptypepsi
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It's horrible. My thoughts and prayers are with the loved ones of those lost and those who are in the hospital. I live only an hour away from Omaha in Lincoln Nebraska and I have family in Omaha. It makes me think of what would be going through my mind if I was there.
I'm so sick of all this senseless violence. Our culture doesn't even suffer as much as others, but I still detest hearing about things like this. Sometimes, I wish people in situations like that in Omaha, and would take a stand, and other times, I just feel hopeless for the loss. I understand it's easier said than done, but one needs but to overcome the instinct of fear and to understand the lives that can be saved by fighting back rather than fleeing in a chaotic frenzy. In my mind, to overcome that instinct of fear, it's a matter of convincing myself of the greater good around me. In my mind, as crazy as it sounds, the sound of gunfire = drop and roll, isolate the source, and work towards the assailant.
I'm just going to throw this out there, and it's something for discussion, but is it wrong to want to make people like that--the gunman--suffer for the pain they cause others? I've been trying to accept the philosophy of Gandhi lately, but with constant shit like this just filling the world around us, it's awfully hard for me to do...
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