A Little Too Close to Home...

http://www.kctv5.com/news/22635163/detail.html

Stuff like this is so dis-heartening to read especially when it is an area that I am very familiar with. The place that I sometimes volunteer at is at 31st and Troost and if you read the article the building in the background of the picture, at 39th and Troost, is the YMCA Headstart Center connected to the small bus stop. The Headstart Center was a place I applied to work back at the end of January and just declined a position with them a couple Friday's back. This not only makes me sick to my stomach being so familiar with the area, but it also infuriates me beyond belief knowing that this happened next to a building full of small kiddos.

Now having been to this area numerous times, I know that it is a pretty poverty-stricken area. In no way can I even begin to comprehend the daily struggles that some of these people have; however, in no way does any type of argument make it okay to kill another human being ESPECIALLY when children are around. I hope that this absolutely ridiculous and selfish crap can stop so the kids inside that building don't grow up being foolish and dumb like the adults around them. Let's start to be the role models that our kiddos deserve...