How sad that it is for sale. Just a few weeks ago it was someone’s thriving business, a place where people worked and trained. Now it’s all gone. What was he thinking? Just sad for everyone.
Two things I find very funny re: the NYT article - her age is removed altogether and that people who criticize her are fans of MB. I never was a dressage rider and only know dressage through eventing. I can assure the author that I never heard the name Michael Barisone before this incident. And still all I know about him is a little of his cv and that he made the worst choice of action he possibly could have in August. C’est tout!
One thing the hand wringers here and the NYT author don’t seem to grok: having something bad happen to you doesn’t mean people can no longer turn a critical eye on your actions. I’ve had cancer but people can still think I’m a world-class jerk if my behaviour - especially very public behaviour I brag about - strikes them as that of a world-class jerk. My having been critically ill with cancer at one point does not inoculate me forevermore from the consequences of my words and actions, past, present and future. And, I might add, it would not have meant that if I was threatening and harassing people during my chemo that that was something no one could comment critically about. That article is nonsensical because it asks us to feel bad that she was “attacked” online as though she doesn’t have a rich and verifiable history of…attacking people on line. I think the author’s irony is broken and needs fixed.
In the article LK says something like seeing mean posts about her as she was recovering from her tragic shooting was something she just couldn’t imagine. Sure she could: when someone was dealing with the death of a child she told them to overdose and speculated they were - what was it - having sex in a bedroom as their child drowned? It was a lot more vulgar than that, but you get the point. She can imagine it b/c she has done it. Some of it is printed in that article with GJ’s tweet. That’s why the article is ridiculous and so beneath the level of the author and the paper.
And Lord, almighty, to the person who said gun shot victims are never blamed - spare me. Maybe you meant blonde caucasian gun shot victims aren’t often blamed but, the hell? Someone already made a good reply about how just reaching for your wallet when told to show your license and registration has gotten more than one person killed and the chorus of, “If they’d just complied, they be alive,” fills the comments section even if they were complying.
I watched a movie, The Fundamentals of Caring, the other day. The main character is often quite unkind and also has DMD. At one point he says to his caregiver, who is accusing him of being jerk and excusing it with his diagnosis, “You ever consider that maybe I’m just a prick, with or without the wheelchair?” That’s what’s going on here. Someone got shot and survived (yay!). But it turns out that that person was and continues to be a truly awful person, with or without the GSW. So, the people she has been truly awful to and those who have merely seen her self-posted evidence thereof, are all, “glad you lived but you’re an awful person. Oh, and even after the GSW you continue to harass and threaten people online and lie about what led to the GSW.”
