horrible

usually my blog is giggles and criticism, but today I had to post something different cause I can't stop thinking about it.
I read a news story today...This 4 month old baby is dead because some gang members got in an argument. Some petty fight over ridiculous gang crap has lead to an innocent life being taken away. This is horrific. This makes me sick to my stomach. Thinking about this brings up an anger from my core. I hope that these 2 murderers that committed this crime don't sleep tonight. I hope that they have seen this picture on the news. I hope that it haunts them. I wish they would walk into a police station with their hands in the air and tears in their eyes because every other scenario I think about involves retaliatory evil.

This week I broke up a little scuffle among a couple middle schoolers. They're good kids, and just got on each others nerves. We talked it out, and how it didn't need to get to the point where it's a fight. It was just pettiness and they didn't handle it like human beings. They were selfish and just escalated the situation by not bending. We can't all get our way all the time. We have to let little things go. This murder of a child is a product of the same thing that these two students dealt with. Unwilling to yield, having to prove your status, all of it has to stop. It has to stop at the start. We have to get in the habit as kids, and if we are grown then we need to see how we're acting like kids.

Sorry for babbling, but I am just so disgusted. I have compassion for the family that has lost this child, but my sense of justice is through the roof right now. Today is Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. I long for a price to be paid here. I hold to hope for a day when these kinds of things will pass.

I hurt.