One hundred twenty three and counting

Homicides In Orange County Set New Record

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The Orange County Sheriff's Office reports that three separate fatal shootings over the weekend put the city over the top, bringing the death toll for 2008 to 123.

Many of the young men who were murdered this year were in their early twenties. Some of them had children that were left fatherless due to these senseless acts. With every decade that passes in our lives, we learn new things which change our perspectives and the way we make decisions and consequently how we live. I can't help but wondering what the outcome would have been, if the shooter as well as the person who lost their life had lived for another decade where they may have been exposed to a new way of thinking.