People aren’t stupid……

….they just become stupid

Yes there may be people with higher IQs than others. There are people who are socially awkward and this can start at a very young age. Overall though people should be able to get along.

Think about it. Most cases kids get along just fine. Again you may have some social awkwardness but once kids start playing everybody pretty much gets along. Yet sooner or later it starts. We teach children to be stupid and they grow up to be stupid.

I am saying this because here we are 72 hours from the Orlando tragedy and the internet is full of everyone having an opinion as to what happened and whose to blame and who are the bad guys and all sorts of madness. When I first read all the postings I knew we were far from knowing the truth. I even had my own opinions. This could have been a true terrorist attack to the shooter having a bad night on too many mai-tais and fighting with a lover. Then I read one story where he actually was going to the club and getting on dating apps. So was he scoping it out? Or did he go through internal struggles and demons since he comes from a very strict religious background and he couldn’t resolve the matter in his head? And top it off his ex-wife says he had anger issues. So yeah, there is all sorts of possible triggers that could have set this guy off. Is the terrorist angle real? It could be. Or did he use the pledge to the terror group to justify in his head the demons within him that destroyed 50+ lives and left families and injured victims struggling to wonder what happened in their life.

He is dead so we will never know. The rest of us can only guess proving to the world that we still know no more about this person than we did 5 days ago. Maybe some semblance of an answer will emerge, but the full truth will be buried with the young man. And once again all this shows we are not as civilized or as smart as we think.

My prayers go out to the families of the victims, the injured and their families, all the first responders who had to deal with this tragedy. And hopefully for the victims’ sake we can take the time to better understand what is it that causes people to have this much anger, hate, and human disconnect that they feel this is the only action they can take in life.

….. and lead all souls to heaven especially those in most need of thy mercy.

And I will be continuing my story, I just wanted to get the above off my chest.