Year-endings.

As the year ends there are two deaths that should make me sad, but don't. One is the death of Eddie Cahill of Portage, Indiana. He was mauled to death by his pet pit bull, Fat Boy, a dog who had a history of violent incidents, though his co-owner Blanca Rodriguez denied it. I don't feel sorry because I suspect that pit bulls are only as nasty as their paranoid owners. I do feel sorry for the death of Fat Boy however. He might have had a good life with wiser owners. The other death was in Hayden, Idaho, where  a 2-year-old boy shot and killed his mother. The woman was shopping at a Wal-Mart with four children. The young boy who was left in the shopping cart reached into the victim's purse and grabbed the small caliber handgun which discharged. How can I feel sorry for a gun-toting mother so careless that she goes shopping with four children and leaves a loaded weapon unattended near a toddler? Wouldn't it nice if there were far fewer of these kind of stories in 2015?  Don't count on it.