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Originally Posted by Supercharged SS
This is my town. Lived in it for all 37 yrs of my life. I went to that school. I have friends with children in the school and know the teachers. It's unbelievable.
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Supercharged, our thoughts go out to you and your community. I too was almost in tears reading about this today, knowing all too well the absolute emptiness you feel when you learn of a family member taken too soon. I hope to never know the feeling of one of my children taken too soon.
As for the debates that are sure to come of this, it was not the guns, it was not god's will, it was not the media, it was not video games, it was not movies and it was not bad parenting. It was mental illness and cowardliness. It was possibly a combination of the other things but at the end of the day 26 innocent kids and educators are no longer with us, and it is because of a coward to afraid to just kill himself that he had to make a name for himself by killing small children and teachers.
Do not give him the title "killer" he only deserves the name coward. I hope that there is some form of afterlife where he will get what he deserves and the young ones taken will get much better than they were dealt.
My heart breaks for this community tonight. It has been ripped from tranquility into reality and reality is all too often an ugly place.
We need to teach everyone that this situation can happen anywhere at any time. No place on Earth is immune to insanity, our best defense is pro-activity as parents and aggressive responses by those who happen to find themselves in the middle of a situation like this.
I will probably get responses that say you never know how you will react when faced with a situation like this. That is true, you never do know, but the first step towards the correct reaction it to realize that you can find yourself in this type of situation. I have faced sudden attacks in combat and have found that after mental preparation, the next best thing you can do for yourself and others (like your children, spouse, etc) is to train them to be observant of what is going on around them, to always have a plan. Always look for ways out of every room/area you enter, make that plan in your head. Whether your first reaction is self-preservation (escape) or offensive aggression (counter-attack) at least you have a reaction.
Until we stop these before they happen, or severely limit the "success" of these attacks, and call these individuals cowards, vice killers, there will be more and more of these types of attacks.
I hope the people of Newtown, CT find some way to mourn, but I know they have a long, no, I take that back, a never-ending road ahead of them and it is for them that I shed tears.
Regards,
George