Connecticut
12 years ago
There"s a special place in hell for people who murder children. I heard the news this morning and I still can"t properly process it. All I know is that I have this deep, disgusting pit in my stomach everytime I think about the kid that did this and the bickering its caused between gun control enthusiasts and mental health doubters.
And it makes me sick. It makes me sick that this happened. Believe me when I say I think gun control is important and that mental health needs more attention, but to argue such topics over the deaths of CHILDREN is just throwing salt in the wound.
I posted this to Facebook today:
"You guys could do more than just post on Facebook about how awful the Connecticut shootings or how gun control needs to be tighter or how attitudes towards mental health need to change. They"re all right in their own way, but really, if you want atrocities like this to never happen again, it has to start with everyone. So for once today, go out and be nice to someone for a change. If it takes the murder of children to change the attitudes of a nation, we"re truly backwards as a people, but we can change. But if we don"t change in the face of something so horrific, we as a people are truly doomed. My 2 cents.
Keep Connecticut in your heart."
And it makes me sick. It makes me sick that this happened. Believe me when I say I think gun control is important and that mental health needs more attention, but to argue such topics over the deaths of CHILDREN is just throwing salt in the wound.
I posted this to Facebook today:
"You guys could do more than just post on Facebook about how awful the Connecticut shootings or how gun control needs to be tighter or how attitudes towards mental health need to change. They"re all right in their own way, but really, if you want atrocities like this to never happen again, it has to start with everyone. So for once today, go out and be nice to someone for a change. If it takes the murder of children to change the attitudes of a nation, we"re truly backwards as a people, but we can change. But if we don"t change in the face of something so horrific, we as a people are truly doomed. My 2 cents.
Keep Connecticut in your heart."
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IF people really want to know how to avoid this sort of shit, heres a hint: STOP PLASTERING THE FACES AND NAMES OF THE PSYCHOPATHS ON THE NEWS. thats exactly what they want. within hours of the shooting, everyone knew this man by name. which is what he wanted. Why did he shoot up a grade school? cause its way more horrible than shooting up a mall filled with adults, or even a highschool. hes going to live in infamy now, just like Pearl harbor and 9/11. and thats JUST what he wanted.
I'm not gonna lie though...there's been HUGE sentiment to not even give the killer any recognition. Forget his name, forget his face. That's what I've been doing, or trying to anyway. Accidentally Wiki'd the massacre, his name was right there. And his face is on The Enquirer, which we sell at my place of employment. But! Attended a vigil the other day for the victims, we had their names read off, the killer's name was never even mentioned, we were even TOLD to forget his name. People magazine put the kid's faces on the cover of their latest mag, so I think we have the right idea focusing on the victims instead of the killer.
Honestly, just forget he existed.