Blame game
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The day's worst media over-reach: ABC News' Brian Ross suggested the shooter, Jim Holmes, might be affiliated with the Colorado Tea Party, based on a mention on that group's website of an Aurora man by the same name. "Now we don't know if this is the same Jim Holmes," Ross said, "but it is a Jim Holmes of Aurora, CO." ABC News later issued a clarification. Different Jim Holmes.Comment: Once again the tragic news of senseless violence. And the blamers point to "the Tea Party", student loan crisis, guns, movies, etc. I'm sure some Dems will blame Republicans and vice versa.
Missing is the real root of the human condition .... sin. And real evil.
Mohler comments on this here:
Christians know that the human heart is capable of great evil. Human history includes a catalog of human horrors. The twentieth century, described by historian Eric Hobsbawm as the century of “megadeath,” included a list of names such as Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, and Charles Manson. But those murderers did their killing from a distance, at least usually. Those who carry out the murders themselves are even more haunting to us. The young man arrested in this case, 24-year-old James Holmes, looks disarmingly normal.
The Fall released human moral evil into the cosmos, and every single human being is a sinner, tempted by a full range of sinfulness. When someone does something as seemingly unthinkable as this, we often question how anyone could do such a thing. The prophet Jeremiah spoke to this when he lamented, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick, who can understand it?” [Jeremiah 17:9]
Human beings are capable of unspeakable moral evil. We are shocked by such atrocities, but only because we have some distance from the last one. We cannot afford to be shocked when humans commit grotesque moral evil. It tells us the truth about unbridled human sin.
When in doubt, blame the Tea Party!
ReplyDeleteBlame the NRA (anyone surprised?!) and gun lovers: Blood on hands of Obama, Mitt and NRA!
ReplyDeleteStanding at Holmes’ side as he unleashed an AR-15 assault rifle and a shotgun and a handgun was Wayne LaPierre, political enforcer of the National Rifle Association.
Standing at Holmes’ side as he sprayed bullets and buckshot into a crowded movie theater were Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, a President and a would-be President, who have bowed to the NRA’s dictates and who responded to the slaughter Friday with revolting, useless treacle.
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Such is the conscienceless extremism of America’s gun lovers that they accept wholesale slaughter as akin to a fatal highway pileup. Accidents happen, in their grotesque view, and so do mass killings by firearms.
Blame unemployment: Colorado shooting suspect struggled to find work, neighbor says
ReplyDeleteThe alleged gunman in the deadly "Dark Knight" movie theater shooting had trouble finding work before he returned to school to study neuroscience in Colorado, a San Diego neighbor said Friday.
James Holmes, 24, who graduated from Westview High School in San Diego in 2006, could not find work after graduating from UC Riverside in 2010 with a bachelor's in neuroscience, said Tom Mai, a retired electrical engineer who lives in the Rancho Penasquitos neighborhood where Holmes grew up.