I Have Mixed Feelings About The Amy Bishop Shooting

What I don’t have mixed feelings about is the fact that she killed three people and injured several others. For that she should be punished. I am not a believer in corporal punishment. I don’t believe in anyone taking someone else’s life unless they are a danger to me at this particular point in time. If they attack me or my family, I will do what needs to be done to protect them and myself.

What I do have a problem with is trying to figure out why she would do such a thing. Why would she take such permanent action against other people. The news says she was upset because she was denied tenure. I admit, I don’t know what a tenure it. So I looked it up.

Google’s definition is: “give life-time employment to; ‘She was tenured after she published her book’”

So apparently she was supposed to be given her job for life. She was counting on her position at the school to be permanent ‘till she retired. They denied her that, so she felt she had no other choice.

This doesn’t make sense. She shot multiple people in the heat of the moment. She obviously was not thinking strait. If she was thinking, she would have realized that her job was not something that is supposed to be permanent. If it was, she would be doing the same thing for the rest of her life.

Not only that, but she took someone else’s life for her own failures. Even if it wasn’t her own mistakes of lack of excellence that kept her for receiving the tenure, maybe it was the economy and the school’s lack of funding that kept them for offering that privilege.

Now that she has done this, her life will go a completely different direction. She will now live the rest of her life in a prison. She may not have that long of a life left to live if the courts decide to sentence her to death.

This whole thing makes me wonder about people. It makes me think that it is extremely dangerous to go to work. What if people just decide enough is enough and I was to pay for their suffering. It doesn’t matter if I caused them any stress or not. If I am there or just in their path when they decide to go ballistic, I could just lose my life.

I guess it is no different than an act of God. There is one chance in several million that I will be struck by lightening. The chances are probably as much that I will be shot by some angry employee. I don’t know. I am just rambling. Tell me your thoughts.

The President had a Beer with Citizens on the Lawn of the Whitehouse… A Beer Summit… How Cool is That?!

I couldn’t believe it when I heard that the president was trying to settle a major conflict between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley on the lawn of his presidential home; a conflict that should never have been major. It is awesome. I have never heard of a president going out of his way to settle the problems of the citizens personally. Usually it is done through legislation or the court system or something other than getting personally involved.

This is one of the things that I really like about President Obama. He gets in there and spends time with the people he leads. The other big thing is he drinks in public. He has a beer socially. I can’t remember any other president ever doing that. Right after he was elected, he was observed going to a basketball game and drinking a beer. He is real. He is American. I just have to say I am impressed.

What do you think?