sad testimony on msnbc right now. a grandmother

[mopinko]

who only knows that her daughter in law was taken to the hospital, but doesnt know which one.
her 7 yo granddaughter, she says, will not make it. (read, on life support until family decides to pull the plug)

her 5 yo grandson is in surgery.

not sure of where others are.

[teach1st]

1. I'm watching

I'm crying.

Kids. I've spent my life helping kids. And now some asshole wipes some out like they were nothing. I'm sick of our violent culture and the NRA. I'm sick of the people who support the NRA.

I'm crying. I feel so bad for everybody involved.

[questionseverything]

2. seems like more than a person should be asked to shoulder

[mopinko]

4. no kidding.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Maybe we should start picketing gun shops like they picket abortion centers. nt

[mopinko]

5. yeah, w a moving billboard of shot up little kids.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Every American should be made to look at the carnage. Like Eisenhower made Germans look at the

concentration camps.

[dhol82]

13. That is an excellent idea!

[Irish_Dem]

14. I have a lot of them. Obama said to start taking concrete steps. I'm thinking of some.

-Picketing gun shops.
-Making all Americans view the carnage, like Eisenhower did with the Germans.
-National strike of some sort. Lysistrata for example.
-Boycott of any business attached to the NRA.

[dhol82]

17. Yup, if the pro life people can picket with signs of aborted fetuses we should be able to

picket with signs of six year olds with their brains blown out.

I think that’s fair.

[Irish_Dem]

18. Yes. And all Americans have to see pictures of the carnage. nt

[Barack_America]

15. Too dangerous.

Might as well wear a bullseye.

[Irish_Dem]

16. I am trying to come up with ideas. But don't want anyone in harm's way.

There has to be something we can do.

Congress is useless.

[hlthe2b]

7. Yup, a big "frog" in my throat, choking back tears...

My heavens... Having kids among the dead is just the worst.

[beveeheart]

8. It's just been a few hours. How are relatives this close to tragedy

able to go on TV and answer these sometimes insensitive questions? I'd be a blubbering mess in a similar situation and certainly wouldn't want to talk to a reporter.

[mopinko]

9. most people want to talk in these circumstances.

as a hospice volunteer, i have many such conversations.
her talking about how the little girl was born premature, and raised by her other grandparents (there is likely a lot more to that story) and what a sweet and helpful little girl is just heartbreakingly familiar to me.

[beveeheart]

12. Thank you for this explanation and your service in Hospice.

[LisaM]

10. This makes me feel ill.

Those poor, poor families.

[defacto7]

11. I just have no words..

no words...