Tragedy doesn’t even begin to describe what happened this morning in Connecticut. I don’t live in Connecticut. I have never been there. I don’t know one single person that was affected by this unconscionable act. Yet I am reeling from it. I swing between crying, I mean large, sobbing, UGLY crying and being so livid that I wish I could revive this psychopath and kill him myself with my bare hands.
Of course that won’t make any of what happened better. Nothing can. Nothing.
WHY is this happening EVER in our country? WHY are kids killing each other? WHY????
We must, as a society, take responsibility for our contribution to this trend of psychopathic behavior in our children. Yes guns are the problem, yes violent video games are the problem, yes a lack of discipline is the problem, yes the “everyone is a winner” philosophy is the problem. WE are the problem people.
Kids need love. They need to know that when they fall down you will be there to kiss their boo boo and to reassure them. Kids don’t need to be put in a bubble and never allowed to fall because that is too scary and NEVER know what failure is because everything they do is magic and never get ANY punishment for anything because they are just so precious and if you yell at your kid or discipline them you should just burn in hell and go to jail because you are evil. Kids have to know what life is. It is getting bumped around and figuring out how to NOT get bumped. Life is hard. Life is an adventure. But nowhere in that adventure of life should be included, running for your life from a crazed gunman.
We have to stop perpetuating this cycle. It ends here.
Of course all sides of the gun issue are shouting loudly about what would have made this a different outcome.
Here is the truth. NO ONE NEEDS A SEMI AUTOMATIC WEAPON.
Outside of military use it is UNNECESSARY. The end.
Jesus when ANIMALS are killed the whole world freaks out. When the show LUCK had horses die on set PETA got the whole show shut down because there is no way anyone is going to stand for a HORSE dying. That is just UNACCEPTABLE. But when people kill people with weapons, whether it is kids or adults, well then it is everyones right to own a gun and no one can take our guns. And it KEEPS HAPPENING. SO why the HELL aren’t we melting down all these guns for scrap and making playground slides with them or something.
How many kids need to die or god forbid KILL each other until we get the point? How many? There is no acceptable number. ZERO. That’s how many kids should have their lives ended by senseless gun violence in their classroom. A child goes to school to learn. That should be the only thing on their mind.
Mister Rogers sums up what we need to do here:
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.”
Let’s all try to be the helpers. Let’s help our children heal from this and let’s teach them to treat each other with love and respect and to help when it is needed.
