An American Tragedy

The five-year-old, a recent Kindergarten graduate, was said to have asked her preacher, “What color are Jesus’s eyes?”

Today, a day after she was murdered at a cousin’s 10th birthday celebration (during which he also suffered gunshot wounds), her preacher told the world that she now knows firsthand what color those eyes are.

A mother of three young children was also killed, the victim of being in the right place at the wrong time, blocks away, in a rental car she was returning to Enterprise.

A 13 year-old and his 15 year old companion  have been arrested.  The 13 year-old was apprehended based on data from his ankle bracelet.  His frickin’ ankle bracelet!  His rap sheet is reported to be lengthy, but it can’t be released due to his age.  Of course.  Young relatives of the slain are reportedly not cooperating with investigators.  Ya think?  How much longer before we read about their untimely deaths?

What will it take to stop this senseless violence.  Apparently the young President doesn’t make this blight a priority.  Way to dodge your “mandate” there, President Obama.

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