Nothing can be done for the 20 children at Sandy Hook Elemeentary School in Newtown, Conneticut.
They are dead, taken from this world too early by senseless violence. As President Obama said, “They had their entire lives ahead of them — birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own”, and now they’ll never have them. We cannot imagine how their parents must feel, or how friends and loved ones must feel. This day, the flags are at half-staff for a damn good reason. These children are now lost, and their parents will never hold them in their arms again. Just thinking about it, I want to tear up and cry. Up until this point, I thought nothing could hurt me more than Aurora and Wisconsin, but I was so wrong, and I wish I didn’t have to find that out the hard way.
I wish there was something I could say that could make this all better. I wish I could erase the pain we all are feeling now because we lost these, bright, innocent young lives. I wish I could cast a spell and bring them back to us like in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where the only worry about bringing back the dead may come from some odd side effects. I can’t. I wish I could, but I can’t.
I only hope now people stop bitching about second amendment rights vs. gun control and see we really do have a serious problem with gun violence in our country. I don’t know if that problem stems from just overabundance of firearms or from damaged psyches or both. I do know that what happened is horrible, and I don’t want anything like it to happen again in my lifetime, in my country.
Aren’t we tired of arguing while families bury loved ones that won’t grow up? Can’t we just sit down and talk and work something out? Is that too much to ask for? Is it too much.
Nothing can be done for those kids. Plenty can be done for those still alive. Let’s remember that as we proceed this week, and keeps these poor children in our thoughts and prayers. Thank you.
Rami Ungar The Writer 
I heard about this again this evening. I can’t believe it. Sickos getting their hands on guns and going out in a blaze of stupid hatred. I seriously can’t believe it! What’s to be done?
You tell me; Canadians have more hunting rifles per household than Americans, and yet you have a lower amount of gun violence every year. How do you guys do it?
Well, the weapons in question are just that, hunting rifles and shotguns. They are registered to rural areas, whereas the gun ownership of concern in the US is hand gun and assault weapons in urban/suburban areas, if I am not mistaken. But that’s all statistical really. The only other difference is a mentality from what I’ve ever been able to see.
Moore spoke about that at length in Bowling for Columbine and it came up quite a lot in my History of Pop Culture class. The ongoing critique of America by Americans always seemed to think that there was some kind of sociopathic impulse in America, this idea that if you don’t get your due or aren’t happy you have a right to do whatever you want.
Sondheim used that idea for his play “Assassins”, where every man who ever shot a US president was basically a loser looking to redress their grievances over their failed life and get attention. Worrisome though, since something like that is far harder to address…
yeah, i admit it, America has a spirit of independence and self-reliance that people feel allows them to have guns and do what they want with them. But when people do what they want with guns…well, you know what can result.
Yep, some people just aren’t to be trusted with that kind of freedom or power.
but if we try and change the laws, like doctor-patient confidentiality laws, to keep dangerous people from getting dangerous weapons, or if we try and ban assault weapons from civilian hands, everyone on the right side of the aisle will throw a fuss and nothing will get done.