I've been remiss in calling out prayers for the victims of the Canadian school shooting. I didn't even hear about it until I saw it over on The American Catholic. Usually my news consumption, unless I'm pointed to stories through various webpages, consists of watching the local morning news, and then the first half hour or so of the national morning news, usually, but not always, ABC. Later on, if things aren't crazy, I'll try to catch an evening broadcast. Every couple days, if I've not seen anything major on the few pages I still visit, I'll Google News and see what's up.
But in this case, the press has dragged its feet for obvious reasons. I've not seen it mentioned in any of the Top Stories round-ups on the morning broadcasts. Perhaps they have covered it in the later hours, but let's face it. This is some MAGA type shooting up a gay bar or black church, do we really think that's left to the second hour of reporting? And naturally, the Left's own Reality of Babel that it's been trying to push has further muddled things:
Yeah. I weep. And in an unusual turn, most of the coverage has focused on the shooter and mental health, with only a side focus on the victims. Shockingly, several I know on the Catholic Left who are usually first in line to scream 'psycho gun culture' have been silent about this. And we All. Know. Why. But it is what it is. The Left continues to unravel like a madman getting boxed into a corner. Which can be dangerous of course.
Nonetheless, this shouldn't keep people of good will and common sense and decency from focusing on the tragedy, the senseless death and the victims and their families. I can't fathom what those parents and families are going through. So do the right and decent and Christian thing - pray for those victims, their families, and all impacted by this horrible act of evil, that God will cover their hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. And yes, pray for the victim of modern progressive madness who perpetrated this hellish act. I can't imagine what it is to grow up with this today, and those particularly vulnerable need our prayers and intervention as much as ever.
It is slightly shocking how little there is about this news-wise, but the hypocrisy is rather glaring from the usually loud subjects on the matter.
ReplyDeleteThe worst part is we all know why. Like the relatively restrained response to the October 7th massacre and subsequent anti-Israel protests and antisemitic rhetoric and attacks. Or for that matter, the lack of standing up against those transgender activists who have unloaded on JK Rowling, once the darling of the progressive Catholic blogosphere. The whole thing that the Left/Press has accomplished is training people not to care so much as to first ask if we should.
DeleteIMHO, anyone who has given the Trans movement any support has blood on their hands.
ReplyDeleteIt's easy to become outraged at the worst of the transgender movement - until you remember what their problems are, and how they have been played by the modern Mental Health Industry, and all on the Left who seemed more interested in tossing one more truth claim of the past out the window than considering the ramifications of treating a person who has a serious problem as if that problem is not a problem at all because in that regard, there is no reality.
Delete