GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Thursday, May 26, 2022

UVALDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: MASS SHOOTING NOT EXCLUSIVELY A WHITE SCOURGE.

ICHEOKU says every too often white people are singled out and pilloried each time a white knucklehead loses his mind and murders people, branding such an incident as evidence of white supremacy hate-filled rage against the unfolding displacement of white people in "their" own America. Why does the media selectively deride white shooters and somewhat tepidly mention the color of the skin of other shooters who are none white. Why are these colored shooters, including Asians, Blacks and as in the case of the Uvalde elementary school mass shooter, Hispanics, usually given a near pass in media chastisement, while their white counterparts are repeatedly singled out for sledge hammering. 

An agenda driven media bent on pushing their "hate white people" narrative, thus pushing Americans further apart and into their respective corners and enclaves where they usually retreat for safety and succor. How can we continue to maintain the "United" in the United States of America when the media continuously polarizes us and pitches other races against just one other? To these anti white people biased media, ICHEOKU says white people are not the only mass shooters in America, so please stop demonizing them.   

The fact of the matter is that guns do not fire themselves to kill people, demented people pull the triggers of guns to kill people. Therefore, instead of always complaining about guns or the need to unravel our constitutional right to bear arms, we should refocus our anti mass shootings effort at finding these threats before they actually take place. Like Trevor Noah once said, Americans are angry people; but why are they so angry and why does some of them take their anger to such a despicable level of heartlessly committing mass murders? Why are these irate Americans not discovered before they put their evil machination into action; and are there subtle warning signs which are too often either ignored or not seen as actionable threats which would have otherwise led to preventing these hurtful acts.

ICHEOKU does not own a gun and never liked nor desired one, admitted having handled guns way back, many moons ago. But the right of those gun loving Americans to bear arms should never be compromised simply because of the devious acts of a very negligible few who chose to put guns into a wrong use. It is akin to attacking the messenger instead of the message as guns do not fire by themselves. The issue is not the guns but those who misuse guns; and we should refocus our attention on the fight against gun violence on this particular distinction. It is a more sensible path to follow if we sincerely and honestly hope to, some day, find a resolution to the never ending cycle of gory gifts from hell which nobody ever seeks nor welcomes; but which are frequently dumped on our laps, leaving a brooding nation which appears to be hopelessly without an answer to them.

Since the Buffalo Top's Grocery Store shooting by a demented 18 year old white guy, there has been several other shootings in America which were perpetrated by other races. There was the Southern California church shooting by a Chinese American lunatic; there was the New York subway shooting by a black American reprobate and of course the mother of all these latest shootings being by a Hispanic malcontent in Uvalde Texas which claimed the lives of 19 elementary school children and two of their teachers. 

But regardless of the number of casualties involved in each mass shooting or the prevalence of a certain race in committing these mass shootings, the unlawful taking of another person's life is callous and evil. It is condemnable and should be condemned by all, regardless of their politics or stand on gun availability in America and whether a revisit should be made to the 2nd amendment. ICHEOKU heretofore condemns gun violence in America and calls for a more meaningful approach towards ending it or at least curbing it. A wholesome and concerted focus should be placed on finding these animals before they unleash their mayhem on innocent American people, particularly kids sent to school to learn and grow. 

The media should also endeavor to curb their enthusiasm of sowing discord and chaos in America, and stop holding out only white people as the reason for the season of gun violence in America; or portraying white people as the people who use gun to kill other people in their rage against a threatening white displacement in America. People are angry, discontent, anxious and afraid; and many are walking gingerly on a hair-trigger, ready, willing and able to lash out at the slightest tip over and unleash heart-wrecking havoc on people. How we can find these people who are already dangling on the edge before they finally tip over should be our collective concern and responsibility, instead of needlessly stoking the already charged atmosphere of our competitive living together as Americans from diverse backgrounds, politics, race and religion. 

It is sad that another senseless mass shooting took place in America and sadder that innocent elementary school children and two of their teachers have now been another statistics to Americans who lost their lives to a fellow citizen through gun violence. May the souls of those killed, including that of the restless gun man, now rest; and to their families, the fortitude to cope with such a humongous tragic loss. ICHEOKU says cannot even imagine the gravity of the trauma of dropping one's kids off at school in the morning, only to be hit with such devastating news that one imbecilic monster came into the school and killed them. 

A country which is currently spending so much to stop Russia's mad Putin from killing Ukrainian children, cannot show the same urgency of now to help stop the carnage of gun violence killing their own people, particularly innocent school children. A misplaced priority indeed, thanks to the Military Industrial Complex which profits like bandits in a more elaborate oversea's enterprise of selling and supplying their weapons of death in foreign wars. But hey, it is America and it is all about the Benjamins, as we now wait and brace ourselves for another one of such incidents before too long. Buffalo just happened and now the Uvalde Texas, and there will be many more as those looking into the mystical glass telescope sees no end in sight. It is quite unfortunate indeed. 

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