I opened the newspaper today to read of the execution date for Russell Bucklew of May 21. He was a Cape Girardeau man who murdered his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend 16 years ago. The prosecutor said that "I've always said that Russell Bucklew was the most evil person I've ever prosecuted." Then two pages over, I read about a 16 year old boy, Alex Hribal, who attacked 22 people yesterday at Pittsburgh-area school. Someone said that the attacker "had the same expression on his face that he has every day, which was the freakiest part.".
Yes, evil abounds and you never know where it will show up next. So we live with it and try to spot it headon and we try to get people help. But we fail. We failed 16 years ago and we will fail 16 years from now. And we try to keep our own little world safe by adding alarms and locks and security of all sorts. But safety eludes us sometimes and sometimes keeps us from trying to do our part in making the world a better place to live. It creeps up into your mental processes!
See, my ADT sign!
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