More kids dead in Texas...

[TreasonousBastard]

I've never really cared much for kids, and don't have any of my own. I do admire them a lot, though, for the innocence with which they greet each day. They haven't yet learned the horrible lessons they will soon enough learn. I have nothing but contempt for those who abuse them and cut off their potential.

Which brings me to the "right-to-life" dimwits. I fully understand if you have a problem with abortion, but I don't understand why you insist on pushing you beliefs on others.

I also don't understand how they can talk of ending a "life" while they watch and excuse the lives that were lost this week. The young girls that were killed had their lives stolen from them, and they had the children they could have had stolen from all of us. Where is the outcry over all of those lives lost?

But, that's speculative. Of course it is. Life itself is speculative and when you throw in war and murder it gets even worse.

It gets to the point where you almost have to believe in a God, because this can't be all there is.

[kentuck]

1. We are all one.

When one dies, we all die.

[634-5789]

2. Well written. my EXACT thoughts.

[wnylib]

3. Among the heartbreaking stories I have heard

was an interview with a 9 year old survivor. He described how his teacher locked the door and told the kids they were in lockdown. The kids got quiet and backed against a wall, away from the door.

Then Ramos shot the lock, entered the room and said, "Today you die." The kid told two friends to hide. They crawled under a table that had a tablecloth that hid them. He and his friends survived as they heard their teacher and classmates being shot.

He will live with that terror for the rest of his life. Probably also will have survivor guilt. And grief over the deaths of people he knew.

Just 9 years old.

Good that he and his friends had the presence of mind to hide and were not discovered by Ramos. But so awful that they heard people dying all around them and had to have seen the carnage when they came out of hiding.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. No good stories come out of these things. None.

[hlthe2b]

5. Waking up each morning with that lump in my throat that prefaces tears...

I don't know how parents can bear dropping off their children at school (or anywhere) now. Hell, not to diminish it in any way--quite the opposite, but I remember dropping my beloved pup off at doggy daycare a couple of times a week when I was working far too much and seeing newbie owners become almost frantic if the staff were not able to reassure them that no, a bigger dog would not cause harm to their own. That--a very speculative risk... And a really low risk for trained staff who know when to intervene.

But in schools--when their own, their current or former students are the danger... How does one reconcile that source of potential danger? How, when we know that even under the best of circumstances police/SWAT can not possibly get there in time to stop at least the initial carnage? And I think of those fearful "pet parents" and wonder how one translates that to parents of children whose fear is very real--based on so many documented incidents--and exponentially more intense?

This is wrenching. Some days I really hate my country for what the RW has been allowed to make it.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

6. K&R. Rethugs seem to be a cold and emotion-free subset of our populace....

perhaps inheriting this trait genetically from our most brutal ancestors.

I just hope Democrat's continued good examples demonstrating love, compassion, unselfishness and empathy will someday drag them into the modern world.

RIP to those precious little ones......


KY.......

[Irish_Dem]

7. Humans are evolving into two distinct subspecies?

Or the ancient battle between good and evil writ large.