Our world is so full of hate and I have a hard time understanding this. People killing innocent people just because they lost their job or kids killing classmates in school because someone picked on them. How can this be? Why has it become so easy to take a gun and take someone else’s life? Sure if someone is threatening to harm you or your family then you have to do what you have to do but these people are killing people that have done nothing to them. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about that just occurred in Alabama.
Ten people have been killed and several injured across two small towns of Samson and Geneva in Alabama after a shooting incident by a gunman. The victims include the gunman and the wife and child of a sheriff’s deputy.
The gunman started his killing spree in a gas station in Samson after 5 p.m. Eastern Time and his rampage ended 12 miles away at the Reliable Metal Products plant, a manufacturing plant in Geneva. According to a report by CNN from Alabama state Senator Harri Anne Smith, who represents Geneva County “he [the gunman] was shooting at just ordinary people going about their business”.
The gunman was identified as Michael McLendon, who once worked at the Reliable Metal Products plant. He took his life at the plant after an encounter with the police. The victims include six adults and a child. The investigators are not sure what caused this catastrophic event to take place. Samson and Geneva are two small rural towns with a population of less than 5000 in Alabama near the Florida border.
Life is precious. No one knows why this person when on the shooting spree that took the life of a small child in the rampage this man when on. Then he took the cowards way out and killed himself. If his life was so terrible, why didn’t he just take his own life and let the innocent people live their lives? No one can give an answer to that question unfortunately. Maybe we need to teach our children just how precious life really is because somewhere along the line, that seems to be a lesson not enough people learned.