Campaign message 2:

Once we understand how 

big business and government are intertwined, 

we can begin realigning resources in order to 

better respond to the needs of more of our people. 

For example, we are all devastated 

when one of our mentally ill is killed 

in the process of protecting him; 

or, when a caring father shoots his wife and three children. 

These tragedies occur all too frequently 

and although we invest heavily in preventing them, 

the perpetrators and victims live isolated 

from the resources that might help them 

and there is little follow up within our social welfare community 

to help us understand why they happen in the first place. 

I suspect we could do better 

if we moved some of our resources currently invested 

at the federal level to our communities 

where we could rebuild our outreach 

and early intervention programs. 

At the very least, we should be experimenting 

with more effective ways to apply 

our social welfare resources. 

We now have the dubious distinction 

of killing twice as many of our children 

as any other industrialized country 

while at the same time investing heavily 

in protective services for children. 

I suspect that all violence is related to all other violence 

and suggest we take on the task 

of understanding this better so we can 

better achieve the goal of personal safety in our communities. Clearly we need better guidance 

from academia on this since there is 

much misinformation and denial 

driving violence at home.

                                                               m. rosenzweig 2010