This Tragedy Has Hit Me So Hard

The world has always been a horror show, but somehow I am unable to get past this particular horror.

and we are so close to Christmas and these were babies this time who should be opening Christmas presents, not being put in the ground I am so angry and deeply saddened by the inevitability of it all we had plenty of warning signals we had so many missed opportunities Still we did nothing

Sick of people claiming to be right-to-life when they have no respect for life. Sick of them crying about their rights when they have no concern for others.

Here's a hug for you

...and I can't wrap my mind around someone killing children."

That's where I'm hung up. And you're not alone in your grief. This has to be the final straw and the worse thing about that is that to get to this point 27 more people died. Something must be done so that this never happens again.

dancing with depression right now. The staff in the lab were standing around talking about it. This is going to hang over us for a long time. And as I looked around at the rest of the patients I realized I was not alone.

What happened was truly hideous.

Many, especially parents with children in school, are hurting and frightened.

Let's hope the coming days show a new and powerful resolve to ban these weapons of mass killing in our county.

I hope the coming days bring peace and healing to all of us

the tragedy. So far I am at a loss.

I taught elementary school for nine years.....I see all of their faces even though it's been 30 years ago .

This is really hitting home.

after you blow away your own mother's face, all bets are off. Still 20 little children is hard to comprehend.

Talk about mixed messages...

who can't see the irony in that

their little one, their bundle of joy back ..

You stay up nights, feeding the baby at the first hint of crying, changing diapers when it is barely dirty ...rock the baby to sleep ... and as the baby drifts off to sleep on your shoulder - you think you have rediscovered the meaning of living ....and are thankful for each moment that you have ...

and then you wake up into a nightmare that will NEVER EVER end for you .... people will feel sorry for a while and then - they will move on ..... and you will alone to wake up to every single day knowing that your son/daughter will not come running to you ...screaming 'Mummy/ Daddy' with the purest joy ever known to man.... all those things will just be memories...

I can't imagine being one of the parents it's horrible and so senseless it wasn't illness, or accident, that took these babies they were senselessly slaughtered by a madman

I have kids in school, and while I'm in Canada, I've participated in message boards for parents since my oldest was born (she's 15, my youngest is 5, I have 4 kids total) and have many friends all over the US who have 6&7 year olds. I can't let my mind go there too much either. I had the hardest time saying bye to my 2 littlest ones this morning as they got on the bus. I wanted to gather them up and bring them back home to snuggle in bed all day. My kids are the absolute lights of my life, and I can't imagine being in that nightmare where you can't wake up.
I've been crying off and on for the last few days...feeling hopeless and powerless and angry this had to happen...fuck guns for creating this nightmare. Gun owners are terrorizing your country - what good is this brand of freedom if the NRA controls everyone's lives? How is that freedom? How is it 'freedom' to post armed guards at the entrance of a public school where kids are exercising their right to an education. What about their right to live through that education? By the way, the armed guard thing has to be the most ridiculous thing I've heard (well, except for the teachers should be armed ) as my mom said, "then they'll just shoot the guard first." My family got together last night, all of them are staunch conservatives except for me, and all of them think Americans are fucking loony toons for their love of guns. My SIL, a cop, and someone who has a handgun permit thinks your laws are insane.

ugh. Those poor babies - I can't stop thinking about them.

I have no words. None.

What kind of individual could do that?

I read some of their obituaries in their local paper...and some of the stories posted there. The girl who played dead and was the only survivor of that room--covered in the blood of her friends...The boy who died in the arms of his teacher...One of the kids has a surviving twin sister...on and on. So many stories, so many lives cut short. We will never make sense of this.
Just can't understand this at all much less 11 times.