One of the very hardest sights in the wake of the horrible tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary is the survivors with their steady, young voices, who have said, with confusion “It was a regular Friday”
I can barely stand to watch these children describe how the regular was yanked out of their lives forever.
Regular is without excitement, without incident, it is beautiful and simple routine that we often can curse for its normalcy. When tragedy hits we realize that is what we crave, it is what comforts us and makes us feel secure.
To imagine that these little ones will no longer feel the comfort of a regular day, no longer know that safety that a regular day gives to us, is unbearable.
Whatever you do, do not see this as just a gun control issue (although that alone is a disaster), it is also clearly a mental health issue.
I am guessing the mentally ill have never had the comfort and peace of a regular day.
Here is an interesting rebuttal to the article you linked:
http://thegirlwhowasthursday.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/you-are-not-adam-lanzas-mother/
to me, it seems it’s easier to buy and automatic weapon than it is to get help for someone with a mental illness which is the bigger picture here. emilie parker’s father is a wonderful man to embrace the family of the person who did this and spread love instead of hate. we need more of his attitude.
this is making me wonder if this will be a moment like in john grisham’s “a time to kill”…a father kills the men who brutally attacked his daughter and he’s about to go to the electric chair (the father and daughter in this case are black) the lawyer defending the father appeals to the jury to imagine a blonde haired, blue eyed little girl in the same situation and it was _that_ that changes the minds of the jury.
i hope that something changes in the states (both the gun laws and making it easier for people to get help) because of this. however, it makes me a little sick to think that because it was “white children” who died that a change will finally be made when it is children of all colours who are killed by guns everywhere, every day…deaths that could have been prevented a long time ago…could have been saved.