News Another Shooting In The Us

[timid_flower]

Absolutely heartbreaking. Impossible to comprehend how anyone could do such a thing. :cry:

I hope that the children who survived, the school staff, their friends and families, and all law enforcement and medical personell who responded will get all the support they need.

Exactly what I kept thinking while watching the news.

 

[ISupportHer]

This last shooting is really upsetting to me. So many deaths and so many families affected. Almost like I can feel the sudden void in the universe, the sheer amount of suffering and loss. It is very hard to resist a rage response. Of course a helpless feeling also. For those suffering but also the dread that history repeats itself. Well already HAS. The other incident in China too. Man's inhumanity towards man. Just so, so sad.

 

[anni]

There's just zero balance here, it's the gun way all the way with no discussion of meeting somewhere safer. We'll never get rid of all of them- the country is just too huge, unfathomable amounts exist here, but something HUGE has to take place and now. These strident, unreasoning, unreasonable voices HAVE to now be finally NOT be the ones which speak for everyone- they thought they represented everyone down to the children who lie dead as we write these posts. No, that's not correct. They TOLD us they represented everyone. Obama told them yesterday guess what? We've cried and sobbed our way through Columbine, the body counts kept rising through Nickel Mines, gory landmarks in American History climbing year by year, CHILDREN'S graves marking our path through political resolve thinnly disguised as patriotism. Vomit. Obama said this has to be IT- tired of crying, losing babies, being shocked out of our collective minds.

I have mine, which I have zero hesitation in handing over. It's what the country has been brought to now, a bottom line.

God Bless, Love, and Keep them all in his arms.

 

[ms spock]

Shellbell I agree with you. My daughter wants to divorce her current husband and he has tons of guns. It makes me very nervous for her and the children. He is being verbally and emotionally abusive right now and she is stuck living there as she does not have a job.

A women's refuge could be a really good idea gizmo because they could help protect her and the children and help her get back on her feet with a job.

Gosh it is so tragic what happened today. Such an awful waste.

We are lucky here in Australia that we don't have those types of situations.

 

[Innordinate]

The other incident in China to

Everyone stabbed in China survived. Thankfully, the man didn't have a gun or it probably would have been 30 dead, instead of wounded. This world sickens me more and more each day.

 

[Grama-Herc]

I've only read the 1st 25 posts here BUT, can anyone stop arguing and possibly focus on the little children who lost their lives. Can anyone offer a prayer for their souls and OMG! their parents. Are we so numb to happenings like this that it only causes us to engage in heated cursing debates>

Personally, I am praying for the mothers and fathers to remain safe and that they will somehow find peace as time goes by. My heart is broken. My soul actually hurts. I just don't understand WHY. WHY WHY WHY

 

[Venusian]

Thank you Grama-Herc. The important part right now is for healing. The debates and arguments can wait for a few days. There will be enough vigilance for the time being. I am praying for the children and the ones who have to carry on and the ones on the front lines. I am praying that there are enough councilors to help everyone that is hurting and confused. Praying that none of them will one day be members of sites like this one.

 

[Innordinate]

1st 25 posts

I think you started at the very beginning of this thread. There was another thread specifically about the connecticut shooting merged into this one and there were many many prayers offered for parents and victims families and surviving children. :tup:

 

[DharmaGirl]

very sick about American society,

Amen! I was reading a news article about the shooting and the comments people made were sick. There was a shooting in the mall near where I live, and people were saying- kill him, blow him away etc...

 

[Deleted member 12723]

Thank you Shellbell and Ms. Spock for the kindness. I am really worried. I hopefully will see her today. I will try to talk her into going into a shelter.

 

[Innordinate]

I remember with the theatre shooting I said to my wife, the pathetic thing is some politician somewhere is going to say 'if someone in the audience had a gun, there wouldn't have been so many deaths' and sure enough....... people did say that.

This school shooting has prompted an investigation into school security here, and I imagine elsewhere. At least that's one positive thing that might come out of this. Still sad.

 

[Countrygent]

I can say prayers for the deceased victims, but my own experience facing death at the hands of a psychopath left me wishing many times since that I had died rather than survived, I'm ashamed to say. My thoughts are with the living, the parents, teachers, kids, first responders, family, community touched by this. So many suffering today unfathomable grief and shock, so many who now face a lifetime blighted by this one event. May they all find strength and peace for themselves, may they all be sent caring, support and love to ease their pain.