I am sitting here trying to make sense of the senseless shooting at the naval yard in our nations capital. I have listened to the profilers, all the experts that have talked on the news shows, and the news people themselves, nothing. In hindsight as always everybody seems to be of the opinion that Aaron Alexis the shooter has been a menace to society for a long time and it’s lunacy that he was allowed into the naval yard. This doesn’t soothe my tortured soul in any way. One so called expert seized on the aspect that the shooter played violent video games, aha. That is poppycock, millions of people play these games and don’t kill people.

Some say he sought mental health help and that alone should have labeled him as one in need of watching and isolating. That in and of itself is a dangerous proposition as it would discourage those in need of such help to seek it. The answer has to be much deeper and much more complicated. I hear that since 2009, there has been a mass shooting every month in this country. Why?

For some it’s a matter of gun control or a matter that there are too few guns available to civilians who could have aborted this outcome. Neither side convinces me, I feel the solution is much more complicated.

When I began this blog I thought that most of my posts would be humorous, so far that has not been the case. Maybe that’s the problem. As a boy I loved cowboy movies and gangster movies each of which had a lot of violence in them, maybe not as graphic as today’s movies but violence just the same. I think the difference is that we knew these were movies for enjoyment and not guideposts for living our lives. Maybe we need to return to this  mindset as it applies to movies and video games. I pray for all affected by the needless violence in the naval yard my heart goes out to them.