This is the first time in the seven year history of this blog that it has taken me two days to compose an entry.
Mainly because I, like most of the United States at this hour, are still reeling from what took place in Orlando on Sunday morning. I won't rehash the details because you'd have to be living under a rock to NOT know what happened.
It doesn't matter anyway.
I just want something done about it.
A simple request, to be sure, but way too hard for people to grasp in the aftermath of this horrific event.
It seems like everything other than what actually ended lives in the nightclub is being debated by the ignorant masses on social media and in the political world right now and that is that what happened the other night in Orlando was evil.
It's really as simple as that, my friends. It was evilness in its most vicious and cowardly form. It doesn't matter one bit what the person was using as his reasoning, the animal doing the killing was working off an engine of pure unadulterated evil.
Evil, through hate, ended the lives of 50 people.
You can call it hate. You can even call it focused hate based on the lifestyle preferences of the victims. But no matter how you decide to "call" this, what happened in was evil incarnate.
And again, I want something done about it.
I have been alive when other, paradigm-shifting horrible things have happened. The Murrah Building bomb, 9/11, Sandy Hook, Columbine...too many to list. I'm not so naive to think that we can eliminate evil entirely in the human race, but we need to come together and let those who choose to bring evil deeds that they won't go unpunished.
Let's get this done.
