When the well remembered shooting at Columbine High School occurred in April 1999, the suspects that fired shots at the Gilroy Garlic Festival one week ago today, in El Paso, Texas yesterday, and in the Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio, in recent hours, were either just about to be born, a newborn, or only a a few years old.
About 13 years after the Columbine incident, in December 2012, there was the Sandy Hook shooting.

One other similarity among many, to events in the last several days to events in the last several years, it was a Sunday evening at the Gilroy Garlic Festival when the shots were fired, and on October 1st 2017, at the Harvest Festival, shots were fired, same day of the week, Sunday, and near the same time, for fact, about a 5 hour difference in time, 10:30pm at Harvest, 5:15pm at Gilroy, the evening.  

We have come a long ways.  We have a long way to go.



This is what was written in the 'red box' reserved for extreme emergencies at the top of our HCN webpage on August 4th 2019, for records:

Written and published July 15th 2019 EST

Please be careful not to take what the President said, or 'tweeted' out of proportion nor out of context of what he said.
In today's climate, there may be a buildup of heat and resentment for stances Trump has taken on certain issues, and words used to make statements.
However, it is not advisable to try to take a hangnail, make mountain out of a mole hill, then go running for glory with it, off in some direction and some purpose that has nothing to do what he said. 

To a degree, this is for the purpose of intervening with some knowledge, 'refereeing' slightly.  Let us strive to mitigate inharmonious atmospheres.

So, what will be done here is set forth a few ground rules, and a few facts.

One, even some of the highest learned people that teach or have taught Islam, recently, as in post 1950, and who had African or Arabian or Native, summarily non-fair complexion European stock, in their ancestry, have said very clearly and very forthrightly, those that hate this country, those that work against this country, 'can leave'.  This comment has even been made to their closest of allegiances and students, and even other family members if it applies to them.The point is about hating the country, not the ancestry, not the heritage, not the belief system, not a combination of ethnicity and cultural beliefs.  


It may be that there were comments made whereas there was a coincidental fact that those the comments were reported to have been directed to were 'minorities', or of ethnicity that can for loose description in shortness of words, that is east of the Atlantic and south of Europe.

Concepts about undermining the country go back at least as far as Benedict Arnold.  If it was him, then the comment is applicable.

In the effort to salvage ethnic tensions, there is also a balance that need not be overlooked.  Some comments in terms of the verbiage themselves made about September the 11th, in 2001, horrific events referred to, by referent individuals it applies to, were sedition per se; whether it was actually intended or not.

Question that naturally presents itself, is what proof do you have the comments were racist, if the element of racism was not presented?  It may seem that masses of people swayed to have certain feelings may feel justified in their reaction.  Perhaps what can more safely be said, is that heartstrings may have been tugged a bit, the comment may have rubbed the wrong way a bit, as it may have caused memories of certain racial sayings from eras past to arise in the minds; historically on the hand, there are other sayings and other memories, and in this case, it appears that Trump is laying down the law with austerity, and with a fervor manner is driving home a point that has to do with protecting the country from vulnerabilities that may exist that are difficult to see because of constructs they came in, even, within the government.

Furthermore, the buildup of a collective effort of salvaging emotions hurt from caustic comments, is also concurrent the extreme amount of heat by those that wish to defend this country, especially after September 11th 2001, and do so with their lives they are willing sacrifice, this be no matter what their ancestry is.

It appears that around the closing bell of the business day, maybe just before or just after, not all details put here, an employee opened fire in the Municipal Building on Nimmo Parkway in Virginia Beach.  The result as of about 7:45pm EST, is that 6 persons were injured and about twice as many mortally wounded.  The shooter also a fatality.
The emotional injury to many more, once again as mass shootings have started to plague the US to varying degrees, is a major aspect of the entirety.

Update after 8pm EST, another fatality is added to the count.  This may often happen in mass shootings, as for instance injured persons die while in treatment.

Update June 8, 2019, referent employee/suspect status may be more accurately described as recent employee/suspect 


Initially written and published about 7:45pm EST

While many big news sites are relishing in the sick chaos of what they perceive as gains in perversive freedom, and maybe the money they earned while doing so too, the question automatically comes around, what about the important stories that did not get put where the headlines go?
The Arab tradition in this time of year on the lunar calendar, is that evils are locked away, while in the eye of some of the storms of news dissemination, referent evils are about as non-holded-by-bars as it can get, again according to them. -Let us be mindful.

In Syria, there are reports of 'rebels attacking the airport'.  The article does not say though, who the rebels are, in terms of a name of a group.
Refer to: https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/militants-attack-hama-airport-in-retaliation-for-russian-syrian-strikes-video/

What is going on in Venezuela?  Barely anything seen on big news stories today.  However, if something 'snaps', and America is plunged into pouring finances in to help the situation, news giants paying attention to what is going on might make a drastic increase.

The reality is, in the last half day thereabout, almost 2 dozen people have killed in clash at a prison in the Acarigua area, (reports BBC). Armed resistance supporting Maduro has reports saying they are paramilitary, and based off the photos, they look like they have no reservations about engaging in gang-like beatdown violence.

In the historically holy site of Falestine, Palestine, land of the long-running family comprised of many Prophets from ancient times, and many other names well known to scholars, but almost never before said in political spheres out in public in recent decades, pertinent the region, there has been a story that has come out in recent hours about the POTUS and a 'severance package' of some sort.

Najran Airport in Saudi Arabia, evidently attacked by Houthis within about the last day.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-saudi-drone/yemens-houthis-say-they-attacked-saudis-najran-airport-by-drone-idUSKCN1ST1HJ

Meanwhile, the standing rule of taking care of our own backyard here in the USA, central areas of the US have been ravaged by tornadoes.  Oklahoma, Missouri, among them.

Ravaging, ravishing, and relishing, 3 words to round-out this workweek, what appears ravishing can be made to appear so, remember that what is made to appear ravishing might not actually be so, before relishing in it; areas that have been ravaged, such as by tornadoes, in the purview order of priority, is among the real priorities.


Written and published the late night of May 24, 2019

There has been a spate, a sudden surge, of attacks, at, near, in, or around religious sites, many or possibly all of which involved the use of firearms.

This past weekend was marked by violence on the East and West Coasts of the USA.


In Baltimore, western area, near the City portion of a road that turns or runs into Baltimore National Pike, also known as Route 40, reports say a gunman fired indiscriminately into a crowd at gathering for at least one cookout near where a few churches are located.  One person was killed, at least seven were injured.

In the region around San Diego, California, Poway, a gunman using an 'AR' type assault rifle, inherent is the acronym, fired shots at a synagogue.  One person was killed, several injured.

In some ways the above two incidents mirror each other.

In other ways, they could be seen as worlds apart.  The incident at the synagogue perhaps targeted those of the Jewish or Yehudi religion.  The incident in Baltimore took place in an area where the residents are predominantly described as African American, whereat however, ancestral routes in a few lines may have others besides that.

Meanwhile, in Sri Lanka, an exchange of gunfire, from the church killing within the past few weeks, to the attacker being killed, may have been another in a series of attacks that goes back beyond decades.

Baltimore, Maryland in the past few weeks has been in heightened difficulty in the area of shootings especially affecting African American neighborhoods.

In regard the synagogue shooting, there are immediate reflections on the synagogue shooting that occurred in the Squirrel Hill area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania about a half a year ago.

At this time, as readers and viewers of the news are able to assess the totality, they can see the contrast where synagogue shootings are receiving comparably more empathy than the incidents in the African American areas of Baltimore, and a few other cities, especially on a National level, such as in the amount of news stories discussing the events.  This while, the violence among African Americans, in both victims and perpetrators, far exceeds what is in the synagogues.

The reason why might be almost self explanatory; the African American perpetrators of violence do not cease despite being asked, the situation is hackneyed to the extent it may be a story of boy crying wolf too much. However, one family at a time.  Each family of each victim does not feel they are a number in the statistics of cry of wolf.

Situation needs to be addressed.

Very importantly, in cases like this, where religious sites are being targeted, there needs to be an awareness that the targets may be religious sites in general and not a particular religion.
Update 2:25pm EST, "The man accused of killing one person and wounding three more with an assault rifle at a synagogue near San Diego also may have set fire to a nearby mosque." Confer https://abcnews.go.com/US/start-here-synagogue-attacked-san-diego-nra-investigated-york/story?id=62652153