The breaking news broke about two shootings Wednesday within hours of each incident.
The two shootings were very different and they happened in two very different places.
The first shooting happened in the biggest city in America, in New York, in mid-Manhattan, as a gunman lying in wait opened fire in a targeted killing of the 50-year-old CEO of the largest health insurance company in the country. The shooter is on the loose. The motive is unknown.
The second shooting Wednesday happened just a few hours later in one of the smallest towns in the country in a rural area of Northern California at a small religious school of 35 students where two kindergarten kids were shot and critically wounded by a gunman who then killed himself. The motive is unknown.
While different, these two shootings on the same day, one on the East Coast and the other on the West Coast, are generating the same kind of question from many people after they first heard the news about each of them....“What is going on?”
What’s going on of course are just too many tragic shootings in our country. The blame is always placed on guns, or weak anti-crime laws or mental health breakdowns or the break-up of families.
Political leaders argue about it. Sociologists debate it. Mental health experts analyze it. And faith leaders pray about it.
But the answer to what’s going on, is only going to come until enough people in America decide to actually do something about it.
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