I was talking with someone yesterday who was out of town during last week’s deadly shootings in Kirkwood. She said that she knew a friend of a friend that knew the shooter, Charles Thornton.
You may have noticed that I don’t refer to his nickname that has been plastered everywhere by the media. In my opinion, if you gun down people in cold blood, you should only be known to the public by your legal name.
Anyway, we were discussing the killings, and I mentioned that the City of Kirkwood had offered to remove the 150 parking tickets from the murderer’s record. “Post-shooting! Post-shooting!” she shouted.
“WTF are you talking about?” I asked.
“They offered to remove the tickets after the shootings,” she said.
I abruptly ended the conversation.
This person actually believes that after losing their fellow police officers and city officials, and a mayor fighting for his life in critical condition, someone from the City of Kirkwood contacted the killer’s widow and offered to remove the parking tickets from his record.
And that, my friends, is ignorance.
The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload.