Well, perhaps they were frustrated

WARNING: RANT

Even someone who lives under a rock like me knows that the Chiefs won the Superbowl February 11th. And that the following Wednesday, (February 14) they had a big rally in Downtown Kansas City, where an unfortunate shooting took place.

Police: 1 dead, 22 wounded in shooting at Union Station after Chiefs parade, 3 in custody

https://www.kctv5.com/2024/02/15/police-1-dead-22-wounded-shooting-union-station-after-chiefs-parade-3-custody/

One person died, perhaps 20 to 30 people wounded.

The ladies’ group I had been meeting with, both in a Zoom Bible study on Tuesday nights, and in person on Wednesday mornings spent quite a bit of talking about how horrifying it was, and rightly so.

But these same women, when I was so upset by all the attacks on October 7 poopooed my concern, my anger, my sorrow at those events.

One woman even went so far as to say, “Well, you gotta understand how frustrated they are (meaning the Hamas Palestinians).”

So when the same woman started going off on how horrible last week’s shootings were, and how horrible it is that people are allowed to have guns, which just leads to people shooting every time they have a little disagreement, I couldn’t help thinking (not saying, alas), “Well, maybe they were frustrated.”

Really, not looking at what was happening in the rest of Israel that day, there were 3000 people at that concert. 300 of them were killed. Not counting all the rapes, torture, kidnappings, etc. There were about 1 million people at the Chief’s rally. In order for the tragedies to be comparable, over 100,000 people would have had to be killed.

They were concerned about all the kids who will get PTSD from the rally. What about all the children who will never live long enough to have PTSD? What about all the children who watched their parents being killed? All the parents who watched their children being killed? You could not understand why I was so furious for their sake.

You even denied that I was furious.

And it goes further. Every other shooting that made the news was included in Sunday morning prayers. Israel was not. I even requested that they be included. They were not. Because the attack happened on a Saturday, not everyone was aware of it on the first Sunday, so I took that into account. But then next Sunday, and the following ones . . . nothing.

I had to stop taking the Lord’s Supper, for how could I commune with people who refuse to condemn rape, torture, murder, beheading babies, kidnapping?

I thought I had let this all go, but the vastly different reactions to these two tragedies is bringing it all back up again.

Edited to add:

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/02/hamas-rapes-israel-and-related-atrocities.php