Can We Please Stop Trying Find Someone to Blame?

This past weekend, Tucson, Arizona became the center of attention when a lone gunman, apparently seeking out a Congresswoman from the state, shot and killed 6 people and wounded 14 at a shopping center. A horrible event, to say the least. In its aftermath, I heard, not only the country sheriff, but various news agency talk hosts blame the conservative media and the Tea Party movement for being one of the causes for this sad day. You have GOT to be kidding me! When a tragedy like this occurs, we all want someone to take responsibility. But - for anyone to lay some of that on the media makes the whole thing a bit far-fetched. Why then should we not indict Hollywood for producing films highlighting deranged individuals? How many times have we heard of a tragedy that is linked in that way? For some reason, Hollywood appears to be exempt.
Bottom-line, this was one deranged individual who committed a heinous act. He wasn't provoked by the media, Hollywood or any particular organization. He had one target and he was obsessed with that. He was not a conservative. He was not a liberal. He was just one sick human being. Let's just leave it at that and not get carried away.

One Example of What We All Can Do

By now, you are pretty much aware of the story of Ted Williams. No, not the Hall of fame baseball star. I'm referring to the homeless man who stood on a street corner in Columbus, Ohio asking for help with his God-given talent of a good voice. Millions of YouTube views later, this guy found himself on network news shows, morning radio shows and mulling over several job offers including one very lucrative one with Pro Basketball's Cleveland Cavaliers which included a mortgage paid on a house. No one knew this man two days ago. Now, he is probably the biggest story of this young year, thus far. Here was a man down on his luck, homeless, suddenly seeing his life make an unexpected, enormously successful turn. Why? Because hundreds of people came up with job possibilities for this man. Hundreds of thousands wanted to help in some way. So - my question is this: Why can't we do this for other folks down on their luck as Mr. Williams has been? I'm not just talking about out of work radio DJ's. I'm talking about that 9.8% who are unemployed in our country. What if we joined together for those folks as we did for this man? That 9.8% would be considerably less, wouldn't it? Various organizations seemed to be able to find an opening for this man so maybe there are others who can do the same for the rest of the out-of-work population. Think about the possibilities. No need for government intervention.....we do it OURSELVES (thank you, Bob McNeill). Don't know any better reason as to why we are here, do you?