Thread:4paws/@comment-27643406-20160612172852/@comment-32738051-20160612184853

OMG, 4paws! I just happened to see your comment but hadn't checked out the news yet. I have now. This is awful. I suppose I should feel just as bad if it hadn't been a gay club but so many of my friends are gay and I live near Atlanta, which has a very large and prominent gay community, and somehow it being a gay club just makes this attack worse. In a way, I'm glad it appears to have been an individual acting alone and he was killed...he can never do such harm to anyone else now. But there's a side of me that would have both wanted to tear him apart piece by little piece while at the same time berate him to death with just how wrong his actions were. Not that it would likely have done any good but still I think somehow this person missed out on a good spanking or his family, friends and teachers missed or let pass something that they shouldn't have and this guy got off way too easy. And this right after Grimmie was killed after her own concert! A sad day for Orlando and indeed for all the civilized world. Between crazy individuals who should be locked up (and/or lobotomized) and individuals and groups who are either so jealous they just won't do the hard work to better themselves and the world the right way or who are so ignorant and fearful and intolerant they just can't let everyone be who and what they are, there is way too much violence in the world and no place is safe anymore. But if there was ever a sign that we have all become way too desensitized and indifferent and complacent in general, it is when something like this occurs.

One of the reasons I love this Wiki so much is we don't let things just pass by unnoticed. If someone goes without posting for awhile and is absent in game, we reach out to connect with them and make sure they're OK, if possible. And if someone here is going through some difficult times or just having a bad day, we let them know we care and are there for them. If for every time someone in the world was questioning their life philosophies and needed some direction or was hurting and needed someone to help there was at least one person who paid attention and did something to help them, I truly believe there would be no more events like this because the signs would be noticed and something would be done to stop such people before they committed such atrocities. There is a difference between letting everyone be who they are and do what they want, which is a good thing as long as it hurts no one else and doesn't trample another's rights to the same, and someone whose circumstances and actions lead them to do something like this. We should embrace and encourage the former but not to the extent that we permit the latter.

Sorry, I just had to vent. I feel this way every time something like this happens and there have been so many, especially, it seems, over the last 25 years. Amazingly, I think so far I have only known one person who was ever hurt or killed in such an event and that was a business contact in one of companies in one of the WTC towers. I think she was the only one. I doubt I knew anyone hurt or killed in this event. And I myself have been fortunate never to be in the crossfire. But I've been in places where threats or attacks have occurred, twice I know of when there was a threat in progress, and I think I have just been exceedingly lucky and you know what they say about the law of averages.

4paws, I do hope no one you know was hurt or killed but, if so, you have my deepest sympathies. I hope Orlando returns to normal soon but also that everyone is vigilant and lucky enough to prevent something like this from ever happening again. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏