LATE NIGHT OUTRAGE!!!

I’d just like to state my position before going ahead with this outrage: I don’t approve of any violence in this world and it brings me no joy, either. You’ll see what I’m talking about.

How sad is it when we turn on the evening news or the nightly news before going to bed and hear a mother or a close family member mourning the child that was just gunned down? It’s one of the most horrifying experiences for any parent to go through. However, I do believe in looking at things from multiple points of view. The people that commit these crimes should rot in jail for the rest of their lives. The death sentence is stupid. It doesn’t bring back your dead loved ones. But lets analyze this from a different perspective. Most of these shootings occur in the wee hours of the night, while you and I are home sleeping soundly. So, the parents don’t exactly know where their children are. Why not? Seems to me that parents should be aware who their underage son or daughter are around. Don’t suffocate them, but try to know they’re associations. It’s easy to pin the blame on others, but never on ones self. Parents, want to avoid being that crying mom on TV? Keep a close relationship with your children. Or how about this, want to avoid being the parents of the 16 year-old schmuck convicted of murder? Spend time with your kids. No matter how much time and how many shifts you work, all parents should spend time with their children, regardless of age. Keep your eyes on your kids and you can avoid having to outlive them. And as for the cowards that are only big men when armed with a pistol, you’ll get yours. You can’t avoid justice. It’ll find you. Someday, it’ll find you.

3 STRIKES, YOU’RE OUTRAGED!!!

Today was what many would consider to be a dark day in baseball. The release of the fear inducing “Mitchell Report”. I heard the conference as it was going and it made a great point about how we have to focus on the future instead of living in the past. That’s a great perspective. So, if I agree, what can I be outraged about? It seems like people want to go on a massive witch hunt against all of the offenders. Yes, it is a crime to be taking performance inducing drugs as is the use of drugs like cocaine, marijuana and anything else you can find in your mom’s boyfriends back pocket. Here’s the kicker: IT HAPPENS! IT HAPPENS EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY!!! Instead of trying to hunt down these steroid using jocks, why not spend all that time and effort into looking for the people who deal the drugs in our own back yards? Doesn’t that make a little more sense. Let these athletes use all the steroids they want. They are adults and can make their own decisions. In the long run, they are punishing themselves due to the long term effects of the drugs they’re taking. But there are a lot of young people out there who aren’t smart enough to make their own decisions. I don’t have any kids, but I can at least be grateful my parents steered me away from anything that would damage my health. So, it’s great to see so much attention given to the drug deals happening between millionaire’s when the drug deals happening in our neighborhood are ignored. It fills me with joy to see my tax dollars used for the greater good.