Dylan Roof, his Manifesto and treatment should re-define Today’s Top Story
The media is all a buzzed by the Charleston shooter and his ramblings about why he committed murder of those unarmed victims in the church. My first thought was where are the NRA members who claim that the best way to stop a bad man with a good is for good men to carry one? They are examining his writings and using his words to define the stance he took but think back to the photos of how he was treated in his capture. I do not recall military style weapons and equipment used to take him down and I do not recall anyone placing a bullet proof vest over the torso of anyone else that they captured. When you stop to dissect the differences between how one class of criminal is handled when compared to another class of criminal, you may began to see a disturbing pattern, or maybe it is just me. We classify something like this, the Newtown Shooting, the Colorado mass killings and others as breaking news and today’s top story when it really is not. We glorify ...