Why?

I am still in a fog due to the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. I am someone who suffers from mental illness; I have done so since I was a teen-ager. Luckily my depression doesn't make me want to strike out at others, I spend most of my evil thoughts on myself. I simply cannot comprehend the need, or drive, to hurt other people, animals, or inanimate objects. What keeps me going on, facing each new day, are my cats and a few select friends. I am appalled that a human being could shoot and kill his mother at home, and, carrying another family member's identification card, go to an elementary school and start shooting teachers and young children indiscriminately. It is simply beyond the grasp of my comprehension. So much anger and rage to be pointed at the young and helpless... I am still bewildered.

 I like Morgan Freeman very much. What he had to say/write about this tragedy is, I'm afraid, true:
  "You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here's why.
    It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single victim of Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody. 
  CNN's article says that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next.
    You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by turning off the news."**
**Please note that today, Monday, 17 December 2012, Mr. Morgan Freeman and his publicist state that the above statement was NOT made by Mr. Freeman.  It is a hoax, which I believed...  I guess because it represented my own views, I was a gullible fool.**


If I seem to be posting more photos than usual, I am trying to distract myself, and give others something pleasant to look at, since the news will continue to cover this tragedy for a long time.