Thoughts on Shooting and Some Other Things

Ok, so the world seems to be descending into chaos. Let's kick things off with Paris. Paris suffered a terrorist attack in November. Bombings and shootings in three different areas across Paris. Emergency response and Paris Police were spread out to help and figure out if anything else was going to happen. If you live under a rock and have no idea what I'm talking about (or just want to refresh your mind about this event) here's a link... [link]. That was ISIS. Now let's go back further to a plane crash in Egypt. A Russian passenger jet exploded and was brought down on it's return trip from Egypt. The explosion was from a homemade bomb. ISIS has claimed that bombing as their work. Now let's go to the attack on Beirut, the one left unsung but still claimed by ISIS. The Beirut attack is one that media forgot about when the Paris attack happened [link to Beirut].

"A fiery double suicide bombing terrorized a mostly Shiite residential area of southern Beirut on Thursday, ripping through a busy shopping district at rush hour. The Lebanese Health Ministry said at least 43 people had been killed and more than 200 wounded in the worst attack to strike the city in years." - NY Times, ANNE BARNARD and HWAIDA SAAD

Now fast forward to the most recent event on US soil. Two gun people, a married couple, went on a shooting spree and killed 14 of the husband's co-workers and wounded many others in San Bernadino, California. ISIS is now claiming the shooters as supporters [link]. Before this threats were made against the US. A WWE event in Atlanta. The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. These events still went on as planned without anything going wrong. But the point is, things are happening and they are happening now. We read and learn about history in school, but we don't usually consider the events around us as becoming history. Sure we have little things like so and so has a new chart topper that's broken this record, or this new ruling is changing the country this way or that. At the time they are huge but in the grand scheme of things, they are small details to a bigger picture. BUT when small details start having a common detail, then they start creating large details and start forming big pictures. These events are leading up to something, I don't know what, but something is happening, like something's a brewing, about to begin... Mary Poppins reference to lighten the mood. This is history. It's happening now. What's going to happen now? Where do we go from here? Well, how about an inspiring speech from a movie president...

"Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in this history of mankind. 

Mankind -- that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps its fate that today is the 4th of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution -- but from annihilation. We're fighting for our right to live, to exist. And should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice:

"We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive!"

Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!" - Independence Day.

So yeah, keep moving forward. This post when in a different direction than I originally thought it would go, but hey I think I like it. So keep going, stay alert, don't let fear control you. Sanders out.