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i started weeping in the middle of a
methodist service
after the preacher called what happened inΒ
Connecticut "senseless killing"
and all i could think was "i'm sorry
i'm so sorry" because they blame him
for something he shouldn't be blamed for
he is nothing but a product of our society
of pills and hopes and dreams and suppressed not expressed
and i am so sorry, adam, i am so so sorry
it's not your fault, adam, you are not inherently evil like they think
and i'll remember that you were a victim too
because someone has to remember the truth
someone has to remember that
you're a mother's son like all the other bodies we're burying
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nope, one more thing haha,
i forgot to mention the poem:
those last two lines are absolutely brilliant and exactly how i feel.
thank you for writing this. seriously.
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Haha, why thank you! I'm glad I did, really. I needed to get my opinion out into a forum of my peers and it's been a good experience.
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oh and one more thing: we need to help mentally ill people. where i live, a psychiatric hospital shut down, there wasn't enough funding, and literally, what they did was open their doors and let their patients out. there was an exponential increase in homelessness. a lot of them died or got themselves in trouble and were sent to prisons.
there is no place for the mentally ill. there is either death, prison, or poorly funded hospitals that can't help them the best way they can. we need to help the mentally ill.
i now volunteer at a state hospital and they are threatening to shut down. and again, if they do, their patients will just be released. and they will be homeless, sent to prison, or die.
okay, im done. this is a serious issue for me. im sorry to keep rattling on.
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It is a serious issue though. In my Intro to Criminal Justice Systems class, we were talking about the different criminal perspectives and how one perspective is basically that pretty much close to all crimes are committed because the criminals don't have feasible opportunities (and how psychological illness plays into this turn to crime) and that if we essentially 'rehab' them, at least 90% of them are never repeat offenders. We touched on how psychiatric facilities are closing and how more unstable people are getting thrown into a society that cannot correctly "deal" with them and they do end up getting in trouble with the law or dying in the streets. To be honest, I think we should stop worrying about countries across the Great Pond and worry about our own issues until we get that under control. Then we can talk the talk, because right now we are definitely not walking the walk. Aha, seems we're both rattling on about these important topics. YAY!
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wow. thank you for writing this. everyone i know refuses to talk to me about this because this is how i feel. he was someone's child. dylan kleboid and eric harris were someone's children. they were victims too. as terrible and as haunting as these tragedies were, they were victims too. i was watching a documentary on columbine and a student said she thought eric was cute and she smiled, and i started to cry. she wasn't ashamed to admit this, she wasn't afraid to admit he was a human, and not just a murderer. he was a child, a student, someone she used to know, and she didn't abhor him. and i hope there are more people, like us, who can remember these were children and victims too. and their families are suffering too.
i recommend the movie, We Need To Talk About Kevin. it's also a book, but i never read it. and the book, Columbine, made me cry almost every page.
and i know this is completely unrelated, but the book/movie (i read and saw the movie, i liked both, very different endings), Little Children, expresses the cruelty of people toward the parent of a sex offender. and lots of other stuff. this one is fictional. but i think what that mother goes through is really tangible.
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Ugh, it's sad how quick people lose sight of the fact that we're all human and we all fuck up and they just want to focus on our transgressions. And most of them try to back it up with religion or with laws but really it's just the unspoken laws of humanity that we should be talking about. UGHHHHHH THIS IS WHY I'M GONNA BE A SOCIOLOGIST SO I CAN TELL PEOPLE TO SHUT UP AND HAVE THE CREDENTIALS FOR THEM TO LISTEN. *coughsorryboutthatcough*
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wow this is really powerful and I love the message. I agree so much <3
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Thank you. I don't often try to write about controversial topics because I often don't know how I feel on the subject, but this time I do know.
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you're very welcome <3
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i second this. second this so much.
once almost hit a boy in RE, cuz he was insisting that there are Good People and there are Bad People and Bad People only deserve to be locked up in prison and forgotten about, if not stuck on death row. and that is not how it works.
i get a lot of shit for saying stuff like this. 'i wonder why they did it', 'i bet someone could have stopped it if they'd just talked to them', 'i bet you wouldn't be so quick to turn them into a monster if they were your child, your sibling, would you?'
/rant. apologies for hijacking your pretty pretty poem. i have opinions and trouble containing them, especially when people insist on being so very stupid.
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Oh, girlfriend, I'd be the one holding him down and silently egging you on. Sometimes my anger gets the better of me, and this would be a sometimes.
It's okay, I don't consider it a hijack but rather a passionate response. And we need passionate responses in a world of apathy not empathy.
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I cant say I agree with you but its a good poem nonetheless with great flow and its very emotionally powerful.
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You don't have to agree with me and that's a-okay. Thanks for the compliment and comment though, it really does mean a lot. (:
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