No Mention of Right and Wrong

And of course no mention of Good and Evil. Boy, 15, shot dead in Holyoke

So this is the story of a tragedy. A completely predictable tragedy, but... A 15-year-old was shot and killed by 22-year-old.

Hernandez said the shootings could have been connected with the drug dealing that takes place in that area, and that for many young people in the city’s lower wards the lack of economic opportunity leaves them vulnerable to the drug trade.

The police have responded with more patrols, which the community is viewing with alarm. But they have no real answers.

“We need to figure out a way to work together. It’s not trying to pick on someone, it’s trying to make the community a safer, better place to live,” [City Councilor Terrence Murphy] said.

Figure out way. With no reference to good and evil. With no consequences for people who do commit crime. Keeping violent offenders in jail would be unfair.

For 70 years the governments of this country, local, state and federal, have worked to destroy the family. The people in Hollywood have worked to remove religion from our culture. No consequences in this life, or in the hereafter. And they are shocked and amazed to discover that with no consequences, things devolve into Hobbes' State of War.

Someone will say the schools need to be better. And they do, but you won't get there by throwing more money at the problem. That is what they have been doing for 50 years. They need to find some way to reintroduce discipline into the schools, or at least remove all the students who are disruptive. How many students will be left? I don't know, but it should be the only ones who want to learn. But that is unfair, I will be told.

Someone will say that more after school activities are required.

Anyone who brings up "economic opportunity" should have to account for all the damage done in all the riots this year.