Steven Douglas Maloney

Posts Tagged ‘violence’

I want to say something very, very simple about the man who allegedly shot up a Unitarian church in Knoxville because of his hatred for “liberals.” First of all, two people lost their lives in this terrible crime. Second, this man does not represent Christians, Conservatives, Southerners, or Tennesseeans (most of whom are liberals in the most common understanding of the term) in the slightest. This man (presuming he is guilty) is a CRIMINAL. Turning the murder of two people into a metaphor for something larger is unacceptable. I sincerely expect that most sane people will agree with me that this ma deserves a fair trial and probably a mental examination. Beyond that, it is dangerous to hypothesize about his motives and their meaning, for we are more likely to fill in our own biases.  If I had the power, I would ask for all liberals to not convict Christian Consrvatives of a crime the did not commit, and I would suspect a great many of them would have put their own life in peril to restrain such a person. If I had the power, I would also ask for all Christian Conservatives not embrace the acts of a criminal simply because you will have to swallow the odd leftist comment about “you people.” We all agree that we don’t want to start shooting each other,” (especially those of us who don’t have an ideology who are int he crossfire) can we please own up to that?