Peace or a sick society?

Don't know if i mentioned that the Peace Pigeon flew the coop. A friend that rehabilitates birds had told me that once the three pigeons i originally had felt able to fly back home they would leave. Well the first one left within days, the second one stayed a few weeks and the Peace Pigeon who i really became attached to stayed for almost two months. She had gotten so accustomed to the feeding schedule that if i wasn't on time she would fly into the house and remind me.

i'd leave her food outside but some of the Zenaida Doves discovered it and she would have to battle them off. i've wondered if maybe she just got fed up with them and went home. i'm finding i miss her but not the bird poop all over the deck and railings.

i'm still musing on the massacre in Newtown...if your reaction to the killings was to go and buy a gun you are mentally impaired and that's just my opinion.

If you live in Florida the events yesterday when Mr. Jock pulled out his concealed carry gun to shoot Mr. White in a Little Ceasar's because the man was yelling that his order wasn't coming fast enough may make you decide to stay home and order in from now on. Florida's concealed carry law and stand your ground law is making what once could be handled by fisticuffs or yelling life threatening situations. Mr. Jock was lucky he didn't hit anyone else besides Mr. White when he pulled the trigger. i know i'd think twice before going into a crowded place in Florida with their gun laws.

And remember those gun carrier's in Florida don't view themselves as mentally imbalanced, only we do after they shoot.

This site has been focused on Peace since its inception and i'd just like to point out that the fear that pervades this country has gotten so out of hand that people are reacting to what once were considered slights with an overdose of violence. The fear factor needs to be dealt with as we become a country afraid of its own shadow. We are a sick society and maybe it is time to start treating the patient instead of adding more ways to kill each other. Why are so many afraid?

Is it marketing...making you afraid so you will go out and purchase guns and ammo to protect yourselves from the Bogey man? The gun and ammunition companies must love the fact that they have you so cowed and manipulated.

You do know we are the only country in the world that is perpetually at war. Right now we are killing people in nine different countries and as Jerry Kroth says :

“To finally address this problem is to begin a long and arduous process of cultivating a culture of peace. Such collective psychotherapy begins by treating the patient on many fronts and in a multidimensional way: To ration the sale of ammunition; to prohibit the sale of violent toys to children (Greece already does), to aggressively control the sale and access of violent video games to children (Australia, Venezuela, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and Brazil already do), and to prohibit the broadcast of violent scenes, explicit or implicit, on network television during family viewing hours, a practice already in effect in many European countries.

And, who knows, we might even take it one step further and retreat from our aspirations of empire and global hegemony, close down our military operations, and bring our vast armies and armadas home --over 400,000 Americans at last count stationed in almost 1,000 overseas military bases.
Russia has ten overseas military bases. China none.
So much room to grow!
Imagine our progressive President, instead of limiting his compassion to the shedding of a tear at a press conference, actually proposed comprehensive and revolutionary changes and legislation that focused not on the symptoms but, at long last, finally started to address the disease itself.”

See ya next week