And Again

The mass murder of nineteen children and two adults by an eighteen-year-old man (sic) in the latest interpretation of the Second Amendment has brought forth the usual emissions of thought and prayer, matched by the usual forthright denunciations of the perpetrator, whose Latino background has presumably helped to eliminate any diagnosis of mental instability in favour of Pure Evil. Paradoxically, the same devout persons who judge so freely and without fear of judgement appear somewhat lacking in faith that their martyred fellow citizens are in Heaven. Even the Pope, whose God raised about as many fingers to prevent the atrocity as He usually does, seems not to have rebuked the bereaved for their inexplicable failure to rejoice. Nevertheless, in a reassuring point of moral consistency for these unstable times, the most intrusive thoughts and the least closeted prayers are emanating from those same appointed voices of God and People who have worked so hard to place unlimited firepower at the disposal of raging teenage hormones.