Last week there was a horrific act committed by a young man. The nation was stunned in disbelief and grieved that someone could do a thing so horrible to little children and those watching over them at the school in Conneticut.
We wrestled to try and understand, why?
But regardless of the why, it is still heart wrenching, still devastating.
We turn still reeling from this blow, staggering beneath its weight to pause from questioning why, to ask how we can prevent anything like this from ever happening again.
We cry at the horror inflicted on the young children and mourn the loss.
The fact is that that existing laws prohibit someone of his age to own a gun didn't stop him. He didn't own it, it was legally owned by his mother. He was not legally allowed to have a gun in a school zone but he took it there anyway. Murder is illegal but he killed anyway. And the truth be known, if he had not had access to the guns at home he would have sought another way to kill and exact his vengeance.
He planned the horrible act, down to his bullet proof vest.
So we pray for the families of those killed and express our deepest sympathy for their lost.
AUTHORS NOTE - I wrote this as you may surmise the week of the mass murder of children in Connecticut and decided not to publish it at that time.
Enough grief was being expressed, however I too grieved for those murdered and the hurt of the family's left behind. Does that warrant taking the way rights of law abiding citizens, of changing our bill of rights ?
No, I think not. It will not solve the problem, or prevent a similar tragedy in the future.
It is only a process of making people THINK they have done something that will prevent a similar tragedy in truth it is a placebo. You will perhaps feel better for awhile but it won't cure the 'disease'. Truth is, you can't prevent every tragedy.
That's called Life.
We wrestled to try and understand, why?
But regardless of the why, it is still heart wrenching, still devastating.
We turn still reeling from this blow, staggering beneath its weight to pause from questioning why, to ask how we can prevent anything like this from ever happening again.
We cry at the horror inflicted on the young children and mourn the loss.
The fact is that that existing laws prohibit someone of his age to own a gun didn't stop him. He didn't own it, it was legally owned by his mother. He was not legally allowed to have a gun in a school zone but he took it there anyway. Murder is illegal but he killed anyway. And the truth be known, if he had not had access to the guns at home he would have sought another way to kill and exact his vengeance.
He planned the horrible act, down to his bullet proof vest.
So we pray for the families of those killed and express our deepest sympathy for their lost.
AUTHORS NOTE - I wrote this as you may surmise the week of the mass murder of children in Connecticut and decided not to publish it at that time.
Enough grief was being expressed, however I too grieved for those murdered and the hurt of the family's left behind. Does that warrant taking the way rights of law abiding citizens, of changing our bill of rights ?
No, I think not. It will not solve the problem, or prevent a similar tragedy in the future.
It is only a process of making people THINK they have done something that will prevent a similar tragedy in truth it is a placebo. You will perhaps feel better for awhile but it won't cure the 'disease'. Truth is, you can't prevent every tragedy.
That's called Life.
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