Even though I don't know anyone who was killed in that whole massacre I still feel a tremendous amount of sympathy for those families who are left holding the emotional bag. I guess I can't really feel THAT down about what happened because it's no one in my family that died out there but there's still a sense of security that died along with all those victims in this whole debacle.
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It pisses me off when I watch the Guatemalan news and see these reporters talking about this topic as if their Catholic ruler had just been assassinated when on a daily basis at least half of that amount die for no good reason in this city alone. Can you imagine the amount of deaths in some of these real shithole countries? And they're probbably just as senselessly wrapped up in this like the rest of the world.
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I guess that does make sense, but circumstances in each area you're describing are pretty much polar opposites. I know that when someone gets shot to death, per se, in Guatemala and it's described as a senseless killing I kind of have to realize that, hey... It's Guatemale: the country with the highest murder rate in all of Latin America. Senseless or not, deaths are just kind of a given down there; especially in large cities. You know what it's like, man. Shit, you LIVE there. You adapt or else...
When you think about that even though the U.S. has almost as large a murder rate, it's not as concentrated to one area and it's just NOT the kind of thing that goes down in a college campus as casually as, say, a drug deal gone bad in a third-world country. This kind of thing just shatters your perception of what safety REALLY IS in this country.
But hey, there's a reason why the words of Eazy-E still ring loud in some ears out here: "Never leave the pad wit'out packin' a gun".
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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