In the end, twenty children and six adults were killed by the shooter. He also ended up taking his own life.
It breaks my heart......
There has been a lot of controversy over the years about the current gun laws in the U.S. The ownership and use of guns in the U.S. is so entrenched into the culture, it would be impossible to remove them....especially from the criminals. It is my belief that if the U.S. government tried to outlaw ownership of guns only the criminals would have and use guns, and crime rates against innocent citizens would go up. I don't know what the answers are for avoiding this kind of horrible travesty. Better screening of people before selling them guns? Mental health issues that aren't diagnosed...or are ignored? Gun safety education? Changes definitely do need to be made......
After "googling" the attack at Sandy Hook, I got this return from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attacks_related_to_primary_schools
Very sad to say that over the centuries horrible acts upon children have occurred, with and without guns. There are horrible, crazy people everywhere.
After spending 33 years speaking with the public over the phone I know that there are a lot of people walking amongst us who should be in a supervised and controlled environment...and aren't for one reason or another. It seems to have gotten worse over the years...probably due to budgetary cuts to programs that used to help the mentally ill. Could that be one of the problems?!? Sorry to say I don't know the answer to that.
Does any of this have to do with taking "God" out of our schools?!? The moral decay of our society?
This article in examiner.com:
On Friday, Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, attributed the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School to restrictions on religion in the classroom.
"We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools," Huckabee said on Fox News on Friday. "Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?"
He later tried to clarify his comments.
Huckabee said he never meant to claim prayer in school would have prevented the tragedy in Newtown.
According to the Inquisitr:
"It’s far more than taking prayer or bible reading out of the school … we’re asked where was God [in this tragedy] … we’ve escorted [God] right out of our culture and marched him off the public square … and then we express our surprise that a culture without him actually reflects what it has become.”
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December 15th the U.S. sent 400 troops along with Patriot missiles to the Turkey-Syria border. When is the "War on Terror" ever going to end?!?!? The Netherlands is also sending troops to Turkey to protect against Syria. When I read about this it made me cry......
It seems there is so much going on in our world that is out of our control. Maybe I should stop watching the news. Most of what happens in the world is out of my control.
Right now I feel all I can do is pray.......
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Tuesday, December 18th
Last night I couldn't get the horror of the shootings and all the violence in our world out of my mind. I kept thinking about how much the media has contributed to the terror and fear of all of the violence in our society. They keep playing it over and over. With the school shooting they shoved cameras in the faces of the parents as they got word that their children had been killed, they interviewed children, they interviewed friends and family.....WHAT?!?! After dealing with the media for decades during my career I can tell you that most of them are tyrannical in their pursuit of fame and notoriety. They never let down and will publish anything they can get their hands on...no matter who it hurts. I have chosen to TURN IT OFF and STOP WATCHING IT!
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Another quote by Mike Huckabee found on Facebook (today, December 18th):
My Fox show monologue:
I’ve said some controversial things from time to time, but none which prompted such a backlash as when I stated that the horrific shooting in CT of school children and teachers couldn’t be blamed on God because we’ve systematically marginalized God out of our culture by removing Him from all aspects of the public square. The vicious attacks that have resulted, most of all of which are based on total ignorance of what I actually said have actually validated my point, but I’m quite certain that was not the intent of both the professional and amateur critics who have demanded everything from my being banned from ever speaking in public again, or wished me a slow and painful death. On that alone, I wish to acknowledge that the left has again shown that it defines tolerance and diversity as being tolerant only of that with which it agrees, and diverse only to include slight shades of the orthodoxy of liberalism to which they adhere. They abhor censorship of their own profanity, obscenities, or graphic violence, but are the first to demand that a voice that invokes the name of God to be silenced. A specific act of violence is rarely the result of a specific single act of a culture that prompts it. In other words, I would never say that simply taking prayer and Bible reading from our institutions or silencing Christmas carols is the direct cause of a mass murder. That would be ludicrous and simplistic. But the cause and effect we see in the dramatic changes of what our children are capable of is a part of a cultural shift from a God-centered culture to a self-centered culture. We have glorified uninhibited self-expression and individualism and are shocked that we have a generation of loners. We have insisted on a society where everyone gets a trophy and no one loses and act surprised that so many kids lack self-esteem and feel like losers. We dismiss the notion of natural law and the notion that there are moral absolutes and seemed amazed when some kids make it their own morality to kill innocent children. We diminish and even hold in contempt the natural family of a father and mother creating and then responsibly raising the next generation and then express dismay that kids feel no real connection to their families or even the concept of a family. We scoff at the need for mothers and fathers to make it their priority to train their children to be strong in spirit and soul and responsible for right and wrong and exalt instead the virtue of having things and providing expensive toys, games, and electronics that substitute for parenting and then don’t understand why our kids would rather have ear buds dangling from their ears, fingers attaching to a smart phone, and face attached to a computer screen than to have an extended conversation with their family at dinner. And we don’t teach them there is a Creator God who sets immutable rules, a God who is knowable, and to whom we are ultimately responsible. Instead we teach that God was not involved in our origins, that our very lives are biological happenstances and in fact are disposable should they be inconvenient to us, and that any outrageous behaviors are not sin, but disorders for which we should be excused and accommodated. I realize my viewpoint sounds out-dated and archaic, but when that world view was the foundation of our nation’s social contract, we got in trouble at school for talking in class, chewing gum, pulling a girl’s pigtails, or slouching in our school desks. We took guns to school, to be sure, but they were in the gun racks of our trucks and we used them to hunt before and after school. It never occurred to us to use them to murder our teachers and fellow students. So yes, I can stand the contempt and criticism of the left. I’ll gladly accept their scorn as they substitute creative language with a steady stream of profanity-laced tirades that I’m an idiot, a throwback to the past, and a person who should be forever silenced. But when we as a nation feared God, we didn’t fear that a 20 year old with a high powered rifle would gun down our children in their schoolrooms.
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