We have abolished respect for life

When tragically, 17 people from a wealthy, white suburb in Florida are gunned down, people react with anger and horror as they should. A few busloads of children protest and demand that the president find alternatives to this often repeated slaughter of the innocent, and we are collectively outraged.

And when thousands of poor, black children are slaughtered annually in our inner-city neighborhoods, their mothers look for the outrage and wonder where it might be found. Is there silence because they are poor or because they are black? Is this what is meant by Black lives Matter?

And when 500,000 young pro-lifers descend on Washington each January as they have since 1973 to protest the 60 million slaughtered through abortion, the media ignores them as they have since the Supreme Court of our land found a clause to justify that taking of human life.

This has nothing to do with the Second Amendment or the Fifth Commandment. It has everything to do with hypocrisy and a society that operates only on "feelings" and relativism. We have abolished standards of right and wrong and along with that, a moral compass that once directed our children and provided them the security of knowing they are loved and respected and that all life is precious.

Gerald Wester

Mount Prospect