timeout for victims in CT

[Gary Majchrzak]

take a minute and pause to say a prayer for all of us.

Anybody... but especially anybody that's a parent... must have been horrified when they heard the news yesterday.

 

[Capt_Cully]

So senseless. Everyone's a hindsight expert. Mental illness is a disease. I don't know what could have prevented it, if anything. Gun control will ultimately get the blame I'm sure.

As a parent, I cannot fathom it. For the gunman to be dead, there is no one to focus their grief on or gain closure. Horrific from a healing standpoint. Those poor people.

 

[magdelan]

For the gunman to be dead, there is no one to focus their grief on or gain closure.

I was dissappointed (to say the least) when I heard that the gunman took his life. You don't get to do something so heinous and cop out like that. Weak.

As a parent, it makes me sick. I send my 5 year old to school every morning. I get him on the bus, give him several hugs and kisses and tell him that I'll see him when I get home from work. I don't know how I would heal from losing him.

Despite all my selfishness, what about the kids? They must have been so scared. I'm absolutely sure that not a single one of them had the ability to understand what was happening.

I've never been one to get emotional; Friday definately choked me up though.

I don't know how I existed without these guys...

Parker- One and a half years old

Spencer- Five years old

 

[tmz]

I have no worthy words.
I'm praying without them for the babies,the adults, the families and the grief stricken, as well as in thanks and fear for my children and grandchildren and all the rest of us so we can survive this without mortal damage to our souls.

 

[Gravesj1s]

I'll second the part about no words. Because there aren't any that will have any meaningful impact to anyone at this point.-And any conversation/discussion I think will only be fuel for the next pschopath towards a given reason; the attention they seek publicly.

-Steve

 

[Flanders]

Everyone's a hindsight expert.

yeah, the world is really driving me crazy after this. it's like everyone is trying to outstupid each other, and they're all winning by a lot.

I will third the part about having no words. I have known the parent of one of these kids my whole life, and I can't even fathom it.

 

[Capt_Cully]

My intent is NOT IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM, to turn this into a gun/anti-gun rant. I have one simple question that I can't seem to find the answer to. Perhaps it's not known.

How did the kid, Adam Lanza, get the guns. We're they properly secured in a safe, or left somewhere less than responsible?

Please respond only if you know, or have heard the answer to that.

Thanks

 

[Foody]

I was dissappointed (to say the least) when I heard that the gunman took his life. You don't get to do something so heinous and cop out like that. Weak.

Sadly we as a human species always want to see the perpetrator suffer as if somehow it will assuage our awkward and complex feelings. "Vengeance is Mine, says the LORD." The fact that this sad, sick individual took his own life brought about "closure" much quicker and much more economically than 2 years of adjudication and a lifetime of incarceration. Just this past year CT repealed their capital punishment laws, no longer executing those convicted of capital crimes (although those previously convicted will still face lethal injection.) Perhaps the only 'good' that would have come out of his survival would have been possibly learning his motivation behind the heinous act. Could it have perhaps prevented future tragedies? I doubt it.

 

[gandolf8]

On Christmas day when we go to open present take a minute of silent to say a prayer for the 20 kids and 6 adults.

 

[Gravesj1s]

The common denominator that continues to be ignored.

-Steve

 

[Jacwil]

Edited... leaving alone.

 

[mhurley]

We are done here.