17 Mass Casuatlies, Shooting, Benton Community College, Oregon

17 humans were attacked killed by the man in Oregon.  It wasn't in the news. Dawn, aka New York wasn't in the news either, but it was her he attacked last and she fought back, after being stabbed 21 times with a screw driver she survived. She was a survivor until that took her with the force of all the worlds evil at her door until she went later. The man was put on death row. It never made the news, street girls is who he was killing, but we knew. I was Uncle Thor to the kids, and the street Mama's and Papa's were watching the kids. I made a rule no kid camped alone, either they stayed at my island or the butte. I would later point to a name, Dwwn while standing with the Mayor of Eugene and a few dedicated friends and a reporter  and tell a story a very simple and real one of a woman who I helped spend one Summer with her Daughter by getting her a car she could drive to New York and get the little lady or a summer, the last summer 2006.

"I took the gun from Kip Kinkle", (Thurston Oregon Shooting 5/21 98') "because I was scared" A friend said to me. "I figured if I had the gun he couldn't shoot me."  He wasn't in the news, the wrestler was.

Now for the 4th time in 20 years in Oregon a "Mass Causality Shooting".

I can't say more how the lives of hundreds of not thousands are effected directly by such actions of terror it is by far the most extreme example of a "Social Sickness" that has arisen in the last 30 years even more horrific than imaginable, tailor made in our psyche to run fear and loss and empathy, anger and the horror.

I as a writer have seen so much. I can't imagine this hit if such a tragedy  hit my Alumni Campus Lane Community College.

We can say Assault rifles, Semi Auto, not near what the Police have or homeland security.

Someone will dig up facts about the man, some will say look the least amount of Churches in U.S.A. lay in this area, others will blame the social system in place.

I think a line that a professor said to me as we indulged the corrupt or just plain needless, senseless suffering and deaths on so many levels.  

"Acceptable losses," and this was in reference the whole social breakdown that transforms its self into a monster before it is stopped.    

That made me really think.

What is acceptable losses and in what of the many forms I have seen could they come in?

I don't see humans as "Acceptable Losses"; furthermore, I feel we sit at  gate of social response.

That sheriff said I will not utter his name, "Respect."

I will not give an animal mad man attention, of course the media had just thrown it in our face, then they repeated his voice his words, then gave the name again.

"Acceptable for Ratings" ?

Unacceptable.

I pray for those in the many years to come to find peace.

Amen

THOR