It is imperative that what must be admitted to, is that this problem is a spiritual problem. If the problem was merely, physical and mechanical it could be solved with human actions.
But as of this date, no human action has caused any resultive action that resolves the issue.
On the surface, the issue appears to be about the actions of individuals, singularly depraved, for one reason or the other. It is not accurate to claim this as 'black on black'; for which I must withdraw from its use, excepting only as a reference to our desire to rise and be above, the indiscriminate "killings of ourselves as a People".
The factual research indicates murder and killing of any racial background is generally by its own race, percentage-ly. So, this is not about race, if, more than lifestyle.
CommonWealth for a Free Moral Society, has a piece on this issue concerning Bastrop's adjacent city Monroe, Louisiana. In one week there has been enough killing and death for a lifetime. A man was shot dead in a residential driveway on the way to work. A child of 5 years of age, was found sitting in a chair dead, Saturday morning at 6am.
As the undercurrents rip through the communities, the death spiral continues. In preparing for Service Sunday Morning, 5 sirens passed the Church before 9:30. Another human was shot & killed, we came to know the following day.
Furtherly, in other aspects of the death spiral a permissive environment has engrafted itself into society, beginning specifically with the Trayvon Martin killing. Now in 2017 the Sutherland Springs, Texas church shootings, and the subsequent killing of the murderous perpetrator will further desensitize the death spiral.
A new open season. No place is safe. No one has been arrested in the 5 year-old girls murder on Saturday morning November 3rd, or the Demontrail Lollie murder. There has been no adjudication in other killings in Bastrop.
On August 23, 2017 18-year old Roderick Adams was arrested in the August 2016 murder of Raymerio Lee.
There is no cessation in adjacent towns and cities.
I surely Pray that the Lord would give intelligent strength to do what must be done, Amen.
As an addendum, A 2014 Bastrop Case is still ongoing.
