PLN 26

I read a pretty disturbing post by the Rocky Mountian News and was written by Sara Burnett. It was titled Gunman sent 'hate mail'. It talks about a man who went on a shooting rampage Sunday. He wanted to kill as many christians as he could. He wanted revenge for the Youth with a Mission kicking him out of thier group. He then posted on his blog that the christians desereved it. That he wanted to kill as many as he possibly could. This is scary how many shootings there have been.

What matters: 24 year old Mattew J. Murray killed many lives this sunday. And for what? To get back at christians. It was at New Life Church. But it didn't start at the Arvada Center when he went there and asked if he could stay there. They told him that it wasn' t a shelter and thats when he started shooting. Several were killed and a couple injured. Then we retreated. Then he went to New Life Church and started shooting people who were leaving 11 AM mass. After wounding and killing a couple people he set of a homemade bomb and went inside the church. He started shooting at random and then when the security guard told him to surrender he started a gunfight with her. Murray died from the shooting and also shot himself to make sure he died. Now to people who knew him this wasn't a surprise. His old roommate talked about how Murray would hear voices and talk to them. He had also been advised to see a counselor or someone to just help him but he refused to. He said in his blog between the hours of the shootings "You Christians brought this upon yourselves. Obviously he was mentally ill. The people who saw all the signs should have checked him into a mental hospital because that would have saved many lives.

What matters to me: This is a very upsetting pln to write about because not many people like Catholics either and I go to a Catholic church. I remember when I went to church on Sunday they had us take and minute and pray for all the people who had been killed in their own church. Church is supossed to be a place of peace and happiness. It is a the house of God. There shouldn't be death and destruction in your own church. What really upsets me is that not that many people know about it. People think that it shouldn't be published in the news paper because it might upset athiests of others but I fail to see how this would upset them. Actually it seems that it would make them happy instead of upset.

What matters to the world: When I hear about things like this all I can think is "What is this world coming to?" It upsets me when i hear about school shooting, bombing, and shootings elsewhere. These are attacks to the American poeple from the american people. Why are we shooting each other when we should be standing side by side. We are in the middle of a War and we are still against each other. Something more needs to be done and we are yet to figure out what it is.