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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 318610" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>You make a good point, Star. I think your issue is about the importance of forgiveness (not forgetting) and letting go and coming to terms with oneself. As most know, forgiveness is as much for ourselves as for the other.</p><p></p><p>on the other hand, I can only imagine how I might handle things and feel if that 13yo boy had been my son or if my son had been in our front yard and been shot by the sniper driving thru the neighborhood. I would have had all the feelings of hatred, wanting an eye for an eye and wanting to be the one to carry it out, I'm sure. I might have wanted to witness the execution. But I would hope that at some point, I would be able to move past the anger by coming to terms with accepting that nothing would ever bring back my son and that if I am ever going to have a decent life again, I would have to let the hatred go and leave it in the hands of a Higher Power. That''s what I would like to think and some people have done that- whether or not I could be that big of a person if he'd done that to my child, I don't know. Honestly, I doubt it.</p><p></p><p>I think it has something to do with the fact that although murder is never justified, these weren't committed in the heat of the moment, they weren't getting back for something the victim did to him, they weren't for any real or imagined cause, ans frankly, it appears to be just the opposite- that he made a point to go after all ages, genderrs, races, of people who were doing normal things- they were all doing just what they should have been doing and there was no warning, second chance, nothing. It could strike at any place, any time, no matter who you were and there was not even a chance to say a 30 second final prayer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 318610, member: 3699"] You make a good point, Star. I think your issue is about the importance of forgiveness (not forgetting) and letting go and coming to terms with oneself. As most know, forgiveness is as much for ourselves as for the other. on the other hand, I can only imagine how I might handle things and feel if that 13yo boy had been my son or if my son had been in our front yard and been shot by the sniper driving thru the neighborhood. I would have had all the feelings of hatred, wanting an eye for an eye and wanting to be the one to carry it out, I'm sure. I might have wanted to witness the execution. But I would hope that at some point, I would be able to move past the anger by coming to terms with accepting that nothing would ever bring back my son and that if I am ever going to have a decent life again, I would have to let the hatred go and leave it in the hands of a Higher Power. That''s what I would like to think and some people have done that- whether or not I could be that big of a person if he'd done that to my child, I don't know. Honestly, I doubt it. I think it has something to do with the fact that although murder is never justified, these weren't committed in the heat of the moment, they weren't getting back for something the victim did to him, they weren't for any real or imagined cause, ans frankly, it appears to be just the opposite- that he made a point to go after all ages, genderrs, races, of people who were doing normal things- they were all doing just what they should have been doing and there was no warning, second chance, nothing. It could strike at any place, any time, no matter who you were and there was not even a chance to say a 30 second final prayer. [/QUOTE]
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