Two Americans slain Wednesday and few noticed

A disgruntled man aimed his gun at two young Americans Wednesday, pulled the trigger, and blew them away. But very few noticed because America's sensationalized, reality based media saw no ratings potential from their deaths. So the senseless killing of Capt. Matt Roland, 27 and Staff Sgt. Forrest Sibley, 31, in Afghanistan, were largely ignored by our war weary media. Instead, we get 24/7 coverage of the senseless killing of two ...young TV reporters in the grotesque daily slaughter made possible by our insane gun culture and lack of national mental health care. But the killings of Roland and Sibley are arguably more senseless and worthy of national debate and outrage because they occur with numbing regularity by a militarized and war obsessed government putting tens of thousands in harms way to promote empire and war profiteering. Until we unite to defeat war monger Senators like John McCain, Mark Kirk, Lindsay Graham, Bob Menendez, Tom Cotton and their band of war loving brothers in the House, the revenge killings of American soldiers defiling war torn lands far away will continue apace. Even worse, we meekly condone the governmental slaughter of untold thousands of innocent civilians abroad under the false claim of national security. 
 

That is The Shining City on the Hill in 2015: trillions for weapons of mass killing overseas; hundreds of millions of domestic guns to weed out the innocent at home.