Violence is not the answer.
Violence breeds violence which breeds more violence....which increases animosity and distrust which increase the likelihood that the types of situations that spawn protests will occur.
And the downward spiral continues.
Violence exacerbates the problems it purports to protest.
Anger at injustice is natural and right. injustice should upset us.
Violence is not the answer.
Peaceful protests have changed the world.
Gandhi.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus Christ.
There are non-violent solutions to the our nationś problems.
We are a civilized society. There are civil solutions.
Our laws are just. And, if they are not just, there are ways to change them.
Let us be ruled by laws, not mobs.
Give justice a chance to take her course.
Let us contribute to the solution, not to the problem.