Snowflake Destruction

Fort Lauderdale's Sun Sentinel reported Saturday that the Broward school board is seriously considering tearing down the three-story building where Nikolas Cruz slaughtered 17 people and wounded scores more, actually fulfilling predictions made by students and families to the FBI concerning the troubled, expelled, medicated Cruz.

There is no way to quantify the emotions of thousands in the community affected by the dereliction of duty by those paid and prepared to serve and protect the innocent from just this kind of depravity. None of us should presume to judge the knee-jerk panicky reaction:

"Make it not SO !!! Make the fkashbacks go away !"

The view here is that brick and mortar and glass and metal have nothing to do with what happened at the hands of a sick madman.

We really ought to raze and dissolve the conditions under which an angry self-destructive and violently antisocial person was suckled at the breast of political correctness by local law enforcement which had visited Cruz' home 39 times in recent months and the FBI, which was alerted to the specific intentions of this man by sober and competent adult families.

Surely this "snowflake"  descent  into unreasonable flagellation is not unlike society's decision to never build another ocean liner after  the Titanic sank. On the way the nation sprang to action and outlawed railroad commerce after Casey Jones' ill-fated derailment of old number whatever.

Maybe I've got the history wrong, but the analogy stings, nevertheless.

Instead of tearing down things in a wastrel binmge of self absorption, why not build something new, something glistening... Something durable and uplifting. A hallowed  memorial to the coach who thrust his breast and heart between bullets from Cruz' weapon and the sobbing throats of his boys and girls behind him ?

I remember some doggerel- like  rhymes of  Vachel Lindsey in the roaring 20s...

"Someone's always breaking windows... Someone's always throwing bricks..
"Someone's always causing trouble... Playing nasty YAHOO tricks..."

Pray we all breathe deeply and task our souls with creating and building... NEVER answering the malady of madness with useless desecration.