He walked into a church and shot and killed 9 people because they were black. He is a 21 year old unemployed white man who had delusions of grandeur in his hate filled little mind. He thought his cowardly act would make him somehow important.
As he stood before the judge who was charging him with murder, he looked like a skinny kid and no-one you would look at twice. He didn't look like a murderer...but he is now.
The families of the people he killed stood up to give an impact statement. They cried but they forgive him and his immortal soul. They refused to respond to their incredible loss with more hatred. They are better people than I would ever be.
I think it's their religious training that opened their hearts and allowed them to forgive the skinny young man before them, the one who murdered their loved ones because of the color of their skin. I admire them. I wish I could be more like them. They have no idea their words of forgiveness have settled in this old Canadian's mind and is giving her food for thought.
He'll never pose a threat to anyone ever again because he'll spend the rest of his life in prison. He might have thought his life was miserable before but he will find out what misery is when the other prisoners get their hands on him...and they will.
If this scrawny boy/man had not had access to a gun he would have limited his hatred to words and 9 innocent people would still be alive and their families wouldn't be mourning their loss. If he had any self respect, he would have known that an armed man attacking innocent unarmed people is a supreme act of cowardice.
Brave people don't commit despicable acts like this...only the cowardly do it. He was a coward with a gun and a heart filled with hate. If only he hadn't had a gun. If only...
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