This wasn't supposed to happen again. Evil monsters attacking innocent people in an act of mass terror. Massacring them as they go about their every day lives, for the simple reason that they don't believe the same things.

I wasn't supposed to have to feel this way again. Mourning the deaths of countless strangers cut down for political or religious reasons. There is no reason that can justify this. No god would condone these heinous acts, not true man or woman of the people would sanction these deeds.

I shouldn't have to be afraid like this. If it can happen there, it can happen here, it can happen anywhere. Maybe when I go to lunch on monday? Go to the movies next week? What's next? Where will it all end? I don't wan't to have to look at those around me with suspicion and fear, but I'm losing the ability to do so.

I don't want to hear any more about how they're just misunderstood, how they just want to be left alone, that we're no better than them, that we started the war. I'm sick of the apologists who try to justify the actions of monsters by blaming the victims. If it's a religion of peace, why does it tolerate these wicked deeds. You can tell what a tree is by the fruit it bears, and this tree bears fruit of intolerance, hate, and violence, far more than anything else. The same can be said of many trees, and it doesn't matter if the tree calls itself christian, muslim, or anything else, what it really IS is evil. If you're truly a part of what's good and right, truly a person of peace and love, you stand up against these things, and I know plenty on all sides who do, but is it enough?

Don't ask me for an answer, because I don't have one. It's not enough to sit back and hope some grand pooh-bah does something about it, that some treaty or agreement will make things better. I have no solutions, only sadness, no false hopes, only fear. I pray for the comfort of those who've lost somebody in this heinous act or been a victim themselves, and I pray for an end to the violence. But it's not enough...

This wasn't supposed to happen again...