Field Negro: America the violent

It has been another violent day in America. Not the violence in urban areas that we have become so used to, where gang bangers and drug dealers go at each other on a daily basis. But the occasional shootings that bring with it headlines and raised eyebrows.

“A student recently crowned freshman class Homecoming prince walked into his Seattle-area high school cafeteria Friday and opened fire, killing one person and shooting several others in the head before turning the gun on himself, officials and witnesses said.

Students said the gunman was staring at students as he shot them inside the cafeteria at Marysville–Pilchuck High School. The shootings set off a chaotic scene as students ran from the cafeteria and building in a frantic dash to safety, while others were told to stay put inside classrooms at the school 30 miles north of Seattle.” [Source]

But it’s how children act out now whenever they have problems that they can’t deal with: Grab a gun and shoot up your school, home, or whatever.
And it’s not only violence by gun. In New York City some dude thought that it would be cool to go around chopping up cops with a hatchet in broad daylight.
“A brazen daylight hatchet attack against a group of police officers on a busy New York street was a terrorist act by a reclusive Muslim convert who ranted online against America but had no clear ties to international extremists, the police commissioner said Friday.

Police were examining Zale Thompson’s computer for clues about a motive for the Thursday assault that left one of the officers seriously injured and ended with Thompson being killed by police. Police Commissioner William Bratton said Thompson’s browsing history included organized terror groups, beheadings and the shooting in Canada earlier this week that officials there have called a terrorist attack. [Source]