I don’t blame the YouTuber who recorded parts of this video, as he may have warned others not to go there. However, the police were aware of his Livestream and they behaved in a most unprofessional manner.

It’s still hard to believe that these things happen, but last fall, the shooter was finally sentenced to consecutive life terms plus more than one thousand years in prison. I know that will not make sense to anyone outside of the United States, but please believe that the sentence is significant in a country where a man who raped a 16 year-old girl was sentenced to two years. A young lady must now bear the trauma of that attack with her for the rest of her life. Where is her justice?

“Justice” in the U.S. is transient and therefore undefined. What is it, and in which counties and states will it appear as it should? Why should there be a good place to rape or murder because judges are easily bribed or, perhaps, mentally ill themselves?

I hope that this video makes you think about many things: the value, fragility and fleeting nature of human life, the sickening way we fail to treat people with medical care in psychological and somatic fields, and the ease with which people here can arm themselves with enough hardware to kill a dozen or more people in a single location. Mass shootings, indeed, any shooting, is a national crisis and something the world can’t understand about us.

Hell. I don’t understand it.