[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by upsscott

Thank you for this. I think you illustrate my thoughts much better than I’ve been able to do. I don’t deny Jeff’s statistics I just feel like we are all part of the reason things are the way they are.

Agreed. What Mike has to say captures much of what I've been trying to say as well.

Originally Posted by upsscott

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/dallas-tx/jaderek-gray-10251666
To be honest this kid, and he was a kid, did not seem like a thug. He was a kid who made a horrible decision that cost him his life. I don’t hold anything against the man who defended himself and his family. The whole thing is a horrible tragedy.

Again, agreed. Young Mr. Gray may have been an otherwise great kid who simply did something really stupid in one very brief moment of his life. And, unfortunately, as divided and muddled as our "news" reporting has become these days, we will never know the truth of this either way.

My hope is that by discussing his tragic death, and others roughly paralleling his, we can come to an understanding of why these things keep happening. We are all in this together, and his loss is all of our losses. We need to come together and find a way to make this stop.