For a little over a week now the police have been chasing three people, kids really, all over the country for shooting at a Pasco County Deputy. All of them siblings...2 young men and their 29 year old sister. They had four or five fully automatic weapons with them as they ran up to Georgia and robbed a bank and then they headed out to Colorado where they were arrested yesterday.
When they were arrested after a chase with police the woman had an automatic pistol and was jacking one into the chamber when they shot her in the leg. One boy gave it up and they had a foot race with other one.
My question is...how and why did these people come to this point in their lives? Three young people so full of hate and violence...and there are so many more of them still out here somewhere just waiting to explode. Kids killing people in our schools, in the streets and committing heinous crimes that I would never have dreamed of when I was their age...and I got into more than my fair share of trouble.
Their Mother was interviewed on our local news and had to be hidden from view because of fears of retaliation from some other disturbed person. I could feel her pain and fear for her children. As a Mama of a young man who is an addict I could literally feel every ounce of pain that she was feeling. No Mother should ever have to feel that.
I'm sorry but I don't believe all of the "I'm this way because my Mother didn't do this or that". I believe that everyone should take charge of their lives and make themselves into the person that they want to be. I also believe that God and prayer can help anyone who asks for it...we just have to be aware that we might not like his way of gettin' us there but if we hang on for the ride we will come out better because of it.
What put such violence into these people? Some are going to say video games, violent cartoons and movies, some will say alcohol and drugs but the truth, as I see it, is that we have all contributed to the problem.
We have become such a "Me, me, me!" society that in our greed and selfishness we have neglected to look around us and help those that need it when they need it. We are afraid of each other! The violence has taken away our self-confidence, it has dulled our senses as we try to ignore it.
But we can't keep ignoring it! Try to imagine how our country will be if we continue to be blind to the fact that it is time to clean up our own house. We have to go back to showing our young people that they are our future. We must start treating our Seniors with respect and caring like we used to. We have to go back to the time when parents were teachers and set good examples for their families and those around us.
We have to stop labeling people and start allowing people to be themselves no matter how strange or quirky that we may thing that they are...it's time for us all to join one clique...the human race.
The Dougherty kids were fortunate that they didn't kill anyone. They did some bad stuff...yes they did. They will go to prison...but while they are in prison don't fool yourself into thinking they will "get help" or will be "rehabilitated". Prisons are nothing more than babysitters for those of us who can not control ourselves.
Don't you think that it's way past time for us to make some changes to strengthen ourselves as people and as a country? Tell your legislators that they need to concern themselves with bettering Americans and not with guarding their own paychecks...look at yourself in the mirror and be honest, after all you are only fooling yourself, do you like that person looking back at you?
That's the way that I see it anyway...
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