Weak Sauce About Nothing

OK so everyone heard about that moron (Pedro Cortez) that shot his gun at a house killing 2 people on new years right? 9news interviewed his dumb ass brother. I’m pretty sure the person interviewing him made sure to document exactly what he said so that his pure genius can shine through:
“I know my brother’s innocent. It’s just a bad thing that happened on New Year’s, you know?”said Leo Aragon, Cortez’s brother. “Everyone has parties, you know? Everybody, New Year’s is a day to shoot their guns. That’s what happens.”

You know? You know? Well, we know it’s a crime you asshole that’s why he’s in jail and is going to pay for being completely irresponsible!

Dark, brooding, solitary and inconsolable, Hawkins was reportedly taking powerful anti-depressants - drugs that have been linked to violence and suicide. He had also been given drugs for attention deficit disorder.

A friend, Shawn Saunders, said Hawkins was not a social person, preferring to play video games while drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana.

So here it is, he is anti-social, on drugs, and plays video games.  Sounds like a recepie for disaster.  I wish that I could even begin to develop the words as to why this kind of statement makes me so upset.  How many years have gone through my life being the same person.  But I don’t shoot anyone, or myself.  I have some seriously self destructive behaviour, but my desire to play video games and dring alcohol doesn’t drive me to kill.

This young man had other issues.  His parents are divorced, he had broken up with his girfriend, lost his job and was living in someone’s basement.  You think maybe some of those things combined with a mixture of perscription drugs and alcohol may have had soemthing to do with it.  He felt like he had no one to turn to, he felt removed from humanity and alone.  There were very few people reaching out to him, and probably a lot of people reacting to him with anger.  He was troubled and disturbed, weed and video games didn’t make him kill, mental illness did.