Monday marked the first day of Passover for practicing Jews the world over. It also served as a painful reminder that the scourge of Anti-Semitism didn’t fade away with an Allied victory in Europe.
Racism, perhaps the ugliest form of collectivism the world has ever known, is anathema to individual liberty and a crime against humanity. But if the state of Kansas sentences the synagogue shooter to capital punishment, they will risk making someone who should be a Neo-Nazi nobody into a martyr overnight to radical extremists everywhere. Proponents of the death penalty, who often rightly sympathize with the families and loved ones of the victims whenever such tragedy strikes, must ask themselves what burden they’re willing to bare should one sick and twisted individual’s death radicalize hundreds more.
On May 2, 2011, the terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden was shot and killed by a Navy SEAL Team. How has the loss of Al Qaeda’s figurehead curbed the activities of his followers in the last three years since?
Death, as opposed to life behind bars, is an easy way out for the shooter, who in no way deserves the mass media spotlight mass murderers too often receive. In times like these, it is the late Dr. William Lewis Corporon, and his 14-year old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, an Eagle Scout, whose wonderful lives we should be celebrating; the ones a monster chose to cut short.
