Wit's End

 I can offer no new insight about how shocking the response to Thompson's murder has been, or how thin the threshold is between the politesse of acceptable average American decorum and an ecstatic celebration of violence. I, personally, wish every family be spared the fate of the Thompsons. I also wish every family be spared the fate to which the bone-grinding machine that Brian Thompson sat atop condemns millions of others. So long as we tolerate the existence of health insurance for profit, no one will be spared. (Timothy Faust/RollingStone)

 

Few “thoughts and prayers,’ had been offered by the Republicans, who always use that phrase as an excuse for denying any responsibility for aiding and abetting the Murder Cartel of Gun manufacturers.  Outrage, however, indignation, of course, and blaming the LEFT for this murder were the new “thoughts and prayers.”          

 

Murder. How exactly should I condemn it? Is it worse if there is a weapon used to end another person’s life?  Is it premeditated when someone uses a weapon, makes a plan, and executes that plan to end the lives of others? Is there a difference in murder when a gun is not used but a spreadsheet, a profit and loss printout, or a bonus package is dangled? 

 

If a person or persons decides that eventually, someone else’s life is not a priority, and they plot and plan a way to not help that life remain healthy or alive, is that not as bad as murdering them a weapon? 

 

I am at my wit’s end with so many current event phenomena, and now this… a question of murder, as in shooting someone with a gun versus denying them healthcare via pen and paper?