The Connecticut shooting

          There are no jokes this time, I am not that insensitive and all I want to do is talk about what happened and its effect on our society. As most of you have heard, there was a shooting in a elementary school at Newtown, Connecticut. For those who don't know or are wondering what happened, I still fully don't understand, a man named Adam Lanza shot his mother and after that went to a elementary school. He then went on a murdering rampage,in which 20 children died and 6 adults were killed. Now some of you may have not felt the full impact of this, which is understandable because I have only given you numbers and the fact that our society has become so shell shocked from SO many murders that now we tend to not feel a thing at something so trivial and in a state that is so far away. The children were at the age of 6, meaning they are only in kindergarten or the first grade. Most people who read this might not see little children very often, but let me give you a image. There is a little person, who is no taller than up your thigh or hip, and pressed up against your leg, as a child would do, and is looking you straight in the eye. Now tell me, can you even imagine the horror of seeing that child dying? I am now going to tell you what happened based on what I heard from a teacher and I want to try to give you a image.  Now imagine that some man walks into your classroom and locks the door. You're not expecting anything really so you treat this casually of course, but then suddenly you hear a big bang. Everyone in the class looks simultaneously and you look and see that your teacher has a look of shock and a red stain begins to spread throughout your teachers chest. If you want to know more look it up because as I said, I don't have the complete knowledge of what happened.

          In my European history class, my teacher, Mr. Gonzalez began to talk other countries roads and later about the shooting. He told us that in a country like Mexico the roads are terrible and you can easily bribe the police to ignore something minor, like speeding. When our discussion went on to the shootings, he told us that in Europe the country with the highest deaths by shooting was Spain, with 35 killed per year. After which he said, in America we have 35,000 killed per year by shooting and what does that tell us about our gun policy? Then with bitter humor he said, but who cares we still have the best roads...Later in my day I was in my sophomore literature class and my teacher, Ms. Camacho, told us about a book storage room in her room and if anything were to happen we could go into that room turn off the lights and make it seem like the classroom was empty. Ms. Camacho said she could lock the door from the outside and if we needed to escape there was a window we could bust. What pointed out about that is the fact that she said that the door could be locked from the outside and made me wonder if there was a deeper meaning to what she had said. I am already beginning to wonder if that now there has been a massacre of children maybe some kind of reforms will finally be made...

          Our own president was in tears over the shooting and here is the transcript of what he said

This afternoon, I spoke with Governor Malloy and FBI Director Mueller. I offered Governor Malloy my condolences on behalf of the nation, and made it clear he will have every single resource that he needs to investigate this heinous crime, care for the victims, counsel their families.

We've endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would—as a parent. And that was especially true today. I know there’s not a parent in America who doesn’t feel the same overwhelming grief that I do.

The majority of those who died today were children—beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. They had their entire lives ahead of them—birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own. Among the fallen were also teachers—men and women who devoted their lives to helping our children fulfill their dreams.

So our hearts are broken today—for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these little children, and for the families of the adults who were lost. Our hearts are broken for the parents of the survivors as well, for as blessed as they are to have their children home tonight, they know that their children's innocence has been torn away from them too early, and there are no words that will ease their pain.

As a country, we have been through this too many times. Whether it's an elementary school in Newtown, or a shopping mall in Oregon, or a temple in Wisconsin, or a movie theater in Aurora, or a street corner in Chicago—these neighborhoods are our neighborhoods, and these children are our children. And we're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.

This evening, Michelle and I will do what I know every parent in America will do, which is hug our children a little tighter and we'll tell them that we love them, and we'll remind each other how deeply we love one another. But there are families in Connecticut who cannot do that tonight. And they need all of us right now. In the hard days to come, that community needs us to be at our best as Americans. And I will do everything in my power as President to help.

Because while nothing can fill the space of a lost child or loved one, all of us can extend a hand to those in need—to remind them that we are there for them, that we are praying for them, that the love they felt for those they lost endures not just in their memories but also in ours.

May God bless the memory of the victims and, in the words of Scripture, heal the broken-hearted and bind up their wounds.