Semper Fi

The same day some crazy young man named Mohammd Youssuf Abdulazeez reportedly killed 4 Marines in the Chattanooga, Tenn. area, the State of Colorado convicts James Holmes, another young man of the shooting deaths of 12 people at the Aurora, Colo. movie theater.
Two young men with a violent nature decided that human life, especially the lives of people they had never before met, were not as valuable as their owns and killed them. Two people destroyed 12 people's lives directly and probably dozens if not hundreds indirectly.
I've not hear to argue gun control or gun violence, which I have issues with. I've hear to say there is no difference between what has happened. Holmes targeted moviegoers. Abdulazeez targeted Marines. Why? Because they wanted to kill someone.
These weren't crimes of passions. There were no prior arguments that got out of hand.
But I feel that public opinion is going to view the Marine murders as terrorist attacks, while we will still contemplate why Holmes did what he did.
He did what he did because he didn't care about the lives of strangers, same as Abdulazeez.
And neither did Dylann Roof, another young man charged with the deaths of nine people at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church. So, now, we have 25 people, who have died because someone didn't care about what their family would think having to identify the bodies.
It's outrageous that some people don't want to discuss that Roof's alleged accidents were racially motivated even though he reportedly said they word. No, they say. It's an attack on Christianity. Well, what about the Christians at the movie theater. Seventy other people were injured at the theater. Surely, at least one of them went to church.
Channel this anger and hate that we have today and especially tomorrow and the day after that for the murders and do something for the family and friends. Donate blood. Donate money to the families. I'm sure there's something already set up.
But don't be a Pamela Gellar. Don't want to start a holy war. It's ironic that Gellar and Fox News would actually use a fake Twitter post linking the shootings with ISIS when being in the news business, they have chased many wild goose chases I'm sure. But it doesn't matter. They have an anti-Islamic agenda.
But there are Marines who are Muslims, as well as atheists, agnostics, as well as Christians.
Peace, love and prayers be with the families and friends of those Marines.