What We Lost For Easter

Most people in most cities are finishing up a normal week. They’ll soon knock off for the holiday weekend, Good Friday through Easter. Many folks will be blitzed by incoming relatives or maybe just blitzed for happy hour. Those people in those cities aren’t thinking like Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania or Oakland, California or even New York.

Those three cities shared traumatic experiences over the past week as violent murderers decided that some police officers or regular citizens or even immigrants should die.  The victims had no chance because that’s how cowards kill.  They hide their pathetic fear behind body armor and rambling notes before dealing deadly sucker punches against people who do something with their lives–public guardians, hard workers, husbands, and wives, and parents.

The shootings in Oakland that took the lives of three police officers a couple weeks back constituted the deadliest day for American law enforcement since September 11, 2001, the ultimate act of cowardly failures whose entire existence was based on hate. 

If you are out there today feeling disraught or so far gone that you would take lives, I would like to tell you that there is hope.  I would like to tell you that maybe Easter weekend is the perfect time to find the answers and to make peace with your maker.  But mostly, if you want to commit such violence and treachery, I want to tell you to just keep your cowardice to yourself.  Just lock your door and kill yourself in private so no one else has to suffer.

I do not want people to hurt themselves or feel so alone that they have no options.  Most people suffering through depression can be helped if we would just see or hear them.  But I see innocent humans dying at the hands of these monsters who should have just put a gun in their mouth weeks ago and eaten a bullet.