The Importance of Context

I know I said I was going to review the Democratic primary contenders this week, but the tragic shooting in Charleston has brought up an issue that I strongly feel needs to be addressed.

    Not about race, or gun control, or even flags; but about context and how it gets lost in people's haste to be righteous.

    Such is the case of Kurtis Cook, now a former volunteer firefighter of Mabank, TX.

    On the Facebook page of a South Carolina newspaper's story on the Charleston shooting, Cook wrote, "He needs to be praised for the good deed he has done."

Read the full article in the July 2 edition of the papers.

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