A Picture in Perspective

    Nineteen-year-old local Pittsford teen Charlie Tan was accused of shooting his father. Charlie Tan and his family were victims of domestic violence, but is this an explanation? While watching the news and Charlie’s friends and classmates were crying and talking about how nice of a person he was, and how he doesn’t deserve this. A fund raiser was made to donate money for Tan for defense. This website has raised $45,000 and the numbers are growing by the day. Lisa Donlon killed her husband in his sleep Oct 7 2012. After being held against her will and tortured for three days.

          Yes, these are both tragic situations but that is not what the news is reporting. The story that is being reported is the story of the promising kid who is graduating from Cornell who was saving his family. Lisa Donlon was a killer who was explained as an emotionally unstable housewife. Her situation being more extreme than Tans Donlon's story was focused on the act of murder. Little information about Charlie murdering his father was given and more about how good of a person he was.
       Though I hope, all goes well for Charlie Tan. I wish we would also look closer at the picture of the situation. Instead of the sometimes-misleading picture, we see of the person behind the gun. Yes, abuse is abuse, but murder is murder if no one remembers it’s also wrong.

                                                         



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https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/5mp7/the-charlie-tan-support-fund?utm_source=facebook