The Charleston SC Shootings: About the Shooter at the Emanuel AME Church, About America's Abandonment of It's Children and of the Common Weal

About Dylann Roof, the shooter at the Charleston Church on June 17. Everyone is calling for various kinds of punishment to Dylann for those 9 people murdered.

To This writer, Dylann Roof is just as much a victim as the 9 people he shot and killed. And the bottom cause of it all is American greed and an obsession with profit, and the modern American inability to find a national ethic and direction, and substituting 'is it profitable' as the fix-it-all answer to these questions and moral dilemmas.

Looking at Dylann and reading his life story to date, I see a confused, barely-out-of-adolescence, kid ...an American youth...a product of American focus on profit and not public services, of America's obsession with defunding public education in favor of floating bonds for bigger stadiums, of being so afraid of providing services to racial minorities that services are cut for all citizens. Dylann was one of the victims of these wrong and un-American policies.

Before I see Dylann (as a co-called 'adult') confined for the next 20 years ...or executed (for God's sake), I want to see some of the major media hate mongers and truth distorters on trial - Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, the KKK leaders, and the rest. It hurts bad that their spew was successful in killing 10 people (yes, 10) on June 17, 2015, at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.