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Just another day

On the way to a birthday party for an 11-year-old we learned of the synagogue shooting. The event went on in the noise of a funhouse, go-carts and batting cages, foosball and arcade machines.

It was all surreal, all under the cloud of mass murder and age-old hatred and resentment. Some sick and twisted mind whipped up to a froth by the political games of creating a “national emergency” and a terror of Central American immigrants. The “man in charge” behind the frenzied vision says, well if there’d been a “good guy” with a gun at the door this wouldn’t have happened.

More correct to say, if there hadn’t been a sick mind with lots of guns and a gun permit, and if that sick mind hadn’t been fed with the politically driven anxiety of the moment, it might not have happened. But we are so used to these things now, that instead of a national “day of mourning,” we will go on with our parties and ball games and trick or treat and have just another Day in the Life …

Bill Kostelec

Spokane



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