As some of you may know, a friend of mine was killed this morning in the line of duty. Andrew Dunn was a Sandusky, OH police officer that loved his family and his country. I remember coming back from Iraq and getting into a debate with Andy about who is doing the greater good. Of course we both realized that it was a null point, because either way you look at it, we both put on a uniform and held the ideal that we want to protect and save others. We both knew and know that there are forces of evil and forces of good. We both wanted to be on the side of good.
Now here we are again in mourning of a family member and a friend. Which again has came too soon. This is where the thoughts of hate and revenge start to arise. We begin to rationalize and find a reason as to why Andy has been take from us so soon. We search for any reason to help ease our pain. Alas most of us will focus on Kevin Randelman for the source or our hatred and revenge. We will want to wish the worst on him. We will want him to suffer for what he has done to Andy and done to us.
Kevin is not the source though. Kevin is just a product of an uncontrolled system of violence and hate. I believe we should focus more of our hate and anger toward this system than too Kevin. We should come together and come up with a way to prevent this from ever happening again. We should start a movement, give police more power, take away some of the right of convicts, enforce stricter punishments, protect our officers better from violence by using city wide security cameras, and whatever else it takes.
How many of you are drawn back now? How many of you are developing a sence of hate toward me? I'm just throwing out options. Although the general public will not allow these types of enforcements. Why is that? Because we feel infringed upon or because we have something to hide ourselves? I don't understand honestly. How are we to prevent such violence and hate without being able to properly battle it? Isn't that same thing as grabbing an 18 year old graduate and thowing him in the middle of a war and telling him he is not allowed to do anything to anyone, but he is expected to stay safe and if he uses any type of violence, he better make sure that he is justified and ready to hold up in court too it. Now tell me that doesn't sound rediculous! But, that is what we are asking of our brave officers and soldiers every single day.
At what point is enough, enough and we start punishing and stopping these violent people? I'm tired of all the precautions that everyone has to take and how fearful people are to help one another, because they could get sued or they may lose their job. It is down right horrifying how such bad things can happen, and good people will refuse to help because of the fear of retaliation. I honestly and truely makes me sick! Hell, people aren't even nice enough to stop and help someone on the side of the road, or pick up a piece of trash that is in the middle of the road and is certain to eventually cause and accident. All of it spawns from the same inner fear.
We are becoming a weak and selfish nation and because of this the few strong and brave people that set out to protect us are becoming victims of this. I just hope that we start seeing the light before anyone else has to go through the lose that we just incurred with Andy.
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Rest in Peace dear friend. I know you are watching over us even still. We will always be with you and remember you.
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Chad L. Ries
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