House of Eratosthenes

Regarding the post earlier today, I’m reminded of something someone pointed out about Columbine. It’s impossible to give credit because this was nine years ago…but think back with me, if you will, to what was going on at the time; who was being blamed. The parents were being blamed, bowling was being blamed, trench coats and goth culture were being blamed, video games were being blamed. And you know guns were being blamed. The person I have in mind, was simply pointing this out. The tragedy appears to have become a convenient soapbox for…whatever.

Some whack-jobs were even blaming the kids who actually pulled the triggers on those guns! Ha, ha! Is that crazy, or what? Oh wait, actually, I was in that crowd. Still am.

Well, fast forward to today. This wrinkly man-hating old buzzard got caught indulging in nonsensical twaddle because, like the activists of nine years ago, she couldn’t resist that ambrosia of Fuel For Whatever Social Activist Mission Your Little Heart Has In Mind, in the form of a school shooting. And so she screeched away about how it was high time that we realized…boys are idiots.

Teenage boys are idiots…Teenage boys are more impulsive and aggressive than any other group. WItness their penchant for crashing cars, diving headfirst into rock quarries, experimenting with drugs, and deciding to “play chicken” by draping themselves across dark country roads in an attempt to prove something to their similarly stupid peers.They are driven by sexual curiosity to the point of insanity, and they hold a misguided sense of immortality.

Yes, I’m generalizing. Many teenage boys are polite, respectful, accomplished individuals, but those of them who are are pulling this off are doing so by fighting the natural impulses to be idiots that threaten to overtake them every day.

There is, perhaps, no other single group in American life less suited to have access to handguns than teenage boys.

Well don’t worry Katie Allison Granju, because while a teenage boy fired the gun, it was also another teenage boy that got taken down. One less idiot.

Well the trouble is, in this case, 15-year-old shooter Jamar P. Siler’s adopted sister is also a murderer as of the first day of this month. Normally a detail not worth including. Except it is the solvent, to Ms. Granju’s hypothesis, much as salt is to a slug. Those boys are real dangers to society, huh Katie?

Knoxville police say the 15-year-old accused in today’s shooting at Central High School was adopted into a family that includes a 22-year-old woman wanted for allegedly shooting another woman Aug. 1 at Walter P. Taylor Homes.

Ciara S. Siler is wanted on a first-degree murder warrant and is thought to be hiding in public housing projects in Nashville, Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk said.

Siler allegedly shot and killed Jerri Lynn Goodman, 31.

Her adopted brother, Jamar B. Siler, is charged with killing 15-year-old Ryan McDonald this morning at Central High.

The temptation is to pile on the mother, and it’s understandable. But there may very well be other forces at work. I say that because of the highly ignorant comments of someone who identified herself as a ninth-grader and classmate of the troubled Jamar, who, in my opinion, shouldn’t be allowed to comment on publicly accessible Internet forums — and damn well shouldn’t be doing so with her real name. She needs to be protected from her own stupidity, and as a child I think she’s entitled to that protection.

But I have my own Columbine agenda coming out of this one. There’s something in the water in that little hamlet in Tennessee:

Who are you to judge..??? Dont you understand that people make mistakes?? Only one person can judge and that is GOD…On judgement day he will be the judge….No one but close friends really know what JaMar went through…. He was a great friend to everyone at Vine Middle Performing Arts and Sciences Magnet School in East Knoxville,….. He was a typical teen and he was very smart and intelligent.. Who just didnt want to live up to his potential… I know Ryan also by being a student at Vine.. Just understand that no one is perfect and that you as well make mistakes and that you really cant put the blame on one person for the simply fact that people have their own issues and their struggles in life.. And his life was not full of gold.. That he had a hard life and that he needs someone to love and care for him because no one really did that when he was younger.. Go through what he went through 15 years of his life and tell me how you feel?? and if you come out of that experience like everything is peaches and cream than something is not right about that at all!!!!
To you JaMar B. Siler just understand that we love you regardless of the accident that you did… Dont worry because all you have to do is pray to God and confess to him that what you did was wrong… You are very handsome and unique. And that you are loved by everyone.. You may be gone for a long time but you are not forgotten..You will be constantly in our prays and thoughts..Through Christ all things are possible… Keep Yah Head Up Kid.. RIP RYAN

Idiot, idiot, idiot, idiot, idiot. And probably every bit as much a dangerous hooligan as anybody who’s ever aroused the ire from Katie Allison Granju. Can’t really put the blame on one person. We love you. Accident that you did. Idiot.

I’m reminded of my own words from last week:

…I see we have a variation here that is newer than that other ancient one, and perhaps more dangerous: That is complete agnosticism about where evil is.

This is different from the guy who calls evil good, and good evil. He, at least, must make the concession that there is such a thing as evil. And much of the time, he’ll either place some value on human life, or pretend to do that much. Capital punishment is a great example. I say “Hey, admit it or not, there are some guys who will kill again if they’re allowed to live; you can’t hold them in the prisons, especially when you have liberal hippies running around, unleashed, struggling to come up with new excuses every year for releasing criminals from prison.” You come back at me and say “Waitaminnit, how can you say killing is wrong, and then prove it by killing someone?” And we debate back and forth. Me with the law-and-order argument, you with the Sean Penn Susan Sarandon argument.

At least we are both placing some value on human life; or pretending to.

Not so with the moral relativist who crusades on “weeeeelllllll…ya just gotta keep an open mind.” That is a new level of ignorance.

And it must, inevitably, metastasize into the darkest, purest form of evil. For it doesn’t place a value on human life, nor does it pretend to.

The idiot ninth-grader talks about God. What if we could talk directly to God about this? What if we could ask Him, why don’t these apathetic monsters show some value of human life? To my way of thinking, God would surely answer back with some derivative of…from where, exactly, are they supposed to have learned such a value? Individuals mature in a society that places no value on it — students shoot each other, and it’s an “accident that you did.” Such a climate of social mores & customs does far more than merely suggest that human life is devoid of value; it all but proves it.

With every year I see come and go, I’m more and more saddened when I see people asking for greater quantities of what inspires their complaints, as they so complain. When they don’t even realize they’re doing it.

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