It is extremely frustrating to me to see people politicizing Mollie's death. The fact of the matter is that this is not an illegal immigration issue. It is a human issue. "Had he not been in the United States, Mollie wouldn't be dead." If this is your initial reaction, then you are missing the bigger picture. What if Cristhian Rivera had never made it to the U.S. or had been deported? Then somebody capable of brutally murdering a teenage girl is living in Mexico instead of the U.S. If a Mexican girl gets murdered in a similar fashion and it never makes American media, is that better than it happening in our country? My opinion is that it is not, because if all lives matter, then all lives absolutely matter.
Let's say that there ends up being ~15,000 homicides in the United States this year. (In 2015, there were 17,793 according to the CDC which was the basis for my number) It's borderline laughable to me how every time one or two of these 15,000 is reported in the media, there is a new policy that needs to be instilled, or a current one changed.
Do you want to see change in the United States? The answer does not lie in policy. I am socially liberal, but the "It's not the gun, it's the person using it" line frequently used by conservatives to defend gun rights rings true to me (this shouldn't spark a gun debate, because I certainly agree with strong regulation/restrictions on guns). If you want to play a role in the effort to drop that 15,000 number, then educate your kids, your family, and your peers and teach them to value and respect human life. If you do this, then you are doing your part to keep your community safe, and certainly doing more than posting policy BS on social media. Those who choose not to demonstrate this respect, such as Rivera, should face swift and severe punishment. However, I have yet to see suggested policy on HROT or Twitter or Facebook ever actually accomplish anything. Instead, it makes the poster look self-centered and intent on using a tragedy to push their political agenda.
Again, irritating. How about we mourn for Mollie and her family, hope that Rivera faces the punishment that he deserves, and shove it with the politics?
Let's say that there ends up being ~15,000 homicides in the United States this year. (In 2015, there were 17,793 according to the CDC which was the basis for my number) It's borderline laughable to me how every time one or two of these 15,000 is reported in the media, there is a new policy that needs to be instilled, or a current one changed.
Do you want to see change in the United States? The answer does not lie in policy. I am socially liberal, but the "It's not the gun, it's the person using it" line frequently used by conservatives to defend gun rights rings true to me (this shouldn't spark a gun debate, because I certainly agree with strong regulation/restrictions on guns). If you want to play a role in the effort to drop that 15,000 number, then educate your kids, your family, and your peers and teach them to value and respect human life. If you do this, then you are doing your part to keep your community safe, and certainly doing more than posting policy BS on social media. Those who choose not to demonstrate this respect, such as Rivera, should face swift and severe punishment. However, I have yet to see suggested policy on HROT or Twitter or Facebook ever actually accomplish anything. Instead, it makes the poster look self-centered and intent on using a tragedy to push their political agenda.
Again, irritating. How about we mourn for Mollie and her family, hope that Rivera faces the punishment that he deserves, and shove it with the politics?
