11 year old shot in Liverpool

[Samurai Waki]

I can see the stances from where both parties look at this. An 11 year old dies, its awful and horrible, yes...yes it is. I wish it was me who could have taken the bullet instead and spared the young boy his life. However... having that said, this argument is at an impasse simply because ignorance of life is an undeniable element of the human psyche. Horrible. Horrible things happen all the time all over the world. What of them? Do you really spend your time lamenting them? Because if you do, you are one hell of a depressing person and I wouldn't want to be around you. Do you who mourn the loss of this child, fear at every wake what could happen to you (and possibly your children) at any moment? Or do you take life's individualistic challenges one day at a time and deal with them as they come? I know for a fact that if my daughters or my wife were killed irregardless of the circumstances I would be a broken soul, I would die with them. But I don't expect the rest of the world to care, or to mourn that loss, that is my loss and I don't want one else but me or my immediate friends to share the burdon because **** happens all the time (I mean honestly how many of you are going to take this personal or for that matter remember it in a month from now?). The world is cold, hard, and cruel; and Life's woes shouldn't have to happen to anyone but it does and it always will. But, if you can look past all the bad; The simple rewards that happen to you on a day to day basis from scoring an A on a test, or getting a "that' a boy" at your job, or seeing your six month walk for the first time reinforces the opinion that you should love every little good thing that happens to you, because you never know what might happen eventually... like somebody you hold dear could die from a someone that didn't care enough.

For being such a Mean Bastard; Stalin did say something that rings true in this case.

"A Single Death is a Tragedy; a Million Deaths is a statistic"