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Oh, what the hell. We'll just keep doing what we always do, right? Pay our respects to the family, talk about what a monster this guy is, and then in a couple of days we'll all move on with our lives and it'll be business as usual. Until it happens again. And it will.

It always does.

I'm probably in the minority on this one, in fact, I know I'm in the minority but, anytime we want to start tweaking the system a little bit in order to prevent stuff like this from happening again, I'm all in. Any time. I say we start yesterday.

I know we like to hide behind religion, and show people mercy, and talk about compassion, the meaning of "God", etc. All that sounds great, but it only sounds great until they pull YOUR kid out of a canal. Until it's your kid they stuff in a suitcase. Then what?

You still want to hold hands and light candles? Attend Sunday mass and hum a few songs about peace, pretend we're all riding "It's A Small World" at Disneyland...

Because I gotta be honest. I'd rather feed people to the alligators and broadcast it on live television.

"Well, how does that make you any better?"

Well, because for starters, I'm offering up solutions to problems, that's what makes me better. I'm not sitting around waiting for the next kid to die. Somebody just drove a 4 year old little boy named Juliani Cardenas into a canal, no less than a year after someone stuffed little Sandra Cantu in a suitcase and dumped her in a drainage ditch. Yeah I know ALL the names. I don't forget them. Kevin Collins is still missing and Mark Klaas hasn't gotten any justice in the death of his daughter Polly.

You see the pattern here?

I'm not exactly sure what people are waiting for. If we're gonna sit in a room and stare at each other, waiting for one of these little kids to stand up and offer up a suggestion on how to protect themselves, that's not gonna happen. As an adult, as a parent, it's our responsibility to protect these children, by any means necessary. And WE just failed. Again.

There's a problem. When we encounter problems in life, aren't we supposed to look for solutions? This is getting ridiculous.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of our self serving little world would much rather put emphasis on what makes them feel better about themselves, things like peace, love, compassion, and "understanding". Yeah, sure, that makes you feel better about yourself but what about the victims? What about the mother of this child? What about the grandmother? What about the sexually abused child who has to live with the pain?

I'm glad you think you're a better person for preaching peace, God, and love but I'm not interested in your little pipe dreams. I'm interested in feeding the animals.

We tried "peace", we protect these child abusers/ molesters in jail, we slap them on the wrist and promote their existence in society through websites like "Megan's Law," then wonder why parents won't let their kids outside anymore. We allow them in and out of our criminal justice system as if they were found guilty of spilling paint on the rug.

Trying to get me to understand what drives someone to kill a 4 year old child is a total waste of my time.

Peace doesn't work. The polar bears are starving.

Speaking of bears, maybe we can learn something here. If you were to encounter a grizzly bear and her cub while hiking the beautiful trails of Alaska, it doesn't matter if you intended to harm the cub or not, she will annihilate you. I've seen grizzly bears kill people in 8 seconds flat. So then, why do we accept a grizzly bear protecting her cub by any means necessary but we can't protect our own damn children?

Because we are more civilized?

Are we? Are we really? Are we really more civilized? A grown ass man just drove a 4 year old little boy into a canal. Don't talk to me about being civilized. I'm not interested.