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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