tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post7166152306539855598..comments2024-03-26T17:55:50.539-04:00Comments on Cranky old man: The Death of Innocencejoehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520161706680568508noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-1844900250427496302012-12-16T01:07:38.236-05:002012-12-16T01:07:38.236-05:00Sadly, evil will always be with us. What we can do...Sadly, evil will always be with us. What we can do is be the ones who shine light and love in the world, it is the most powerful weapon that we have. Josie Two Shoeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18388032819905416258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-74798210160394982252012-12-15T22:24:01.846-05:002012-12-15T22:24:01.846-05:00I am still reeling - and then I think of the paren...I am still reeling - and then I think of the parents and I realize that my 'distant' grief is but a scratch to the flesh wound felt deep and unrepairable to their loss and their sense of emptiness.<br /><br />I can not come to grips. I am still struggling to make sense, and I know that I never will in this case.CLRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01207164054349835246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-80415612690823930612012-12-15T19:26:17.228-05:002012-12-15T19:26:17.228-05:00There are always going to be people whose heads ar...There are always going to be people whose heads are in a wrong place, who will go out and do horrific things, using their freedom to remove other people's freedom... freedom to live, to breathe, to make their own life choices.<br />No one is safe, anywhere. <br /><br />The best you can do is be observant of what is going on around you, taking care not to put yourself at risk and hope. Hope that the bad thing that happens today doesn't happen to anyone you love. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Eccentricesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15350166822047688150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-79596974853556192222012-12-15T18:45:43.996-05:002012-12-15T18:45:43.996-05:00I have a Kindergartener. Every Tuesday I work in ...I have a Kindergartener. Every Tuesday I work in his classroom and help with "center time". I have come to know each of the kids in his class. They all call me "Andrew's Mom" and they are all so sweet, so full of energy and so eager to learn and make friends... I just love them all. The thought of my son and his sweet classmates getting gunned down by some deranged crazy man... well, I just can't even imagine it without tearing up. I just can't. I couldn't ever recover from something like that. I don't know how those parents in Connecticut will go on with this forever on their hearts. <br /><br />I don't know what the answer is. Tougher gun laws don't seem to be the answer. The bad guys out there won't follow the rules; if they want guns and ammo, they will get them somehow. Do we need to have security at every single school in America? That doesn't seem to be the answer, either. Because the ones who really want to do harm will find a way, will find a place without security: an open park with kids playing on the playground... a soccer field with many kids' soccer games going on.. there really is no way to prevent such evil. We can be frisked at every mall, movie theater, every restaurant. But people will still gather in open areas. There will still be many other opportunities for evil to strike, places where we cannot possibly be frisked or walk through metal detectors. Evil will find a way. I'm not as optimistic as you that we will eventually "defeat evil" -- it's really just getting worse and worse as the years go on. <br /><br />How are these psychopaths created in the first place? Maybe THAT is where we go to fix this. What are we doing wrong, as a society, where kids grow up to do such evil? WHAT could have gone so terribly wrong during this guy's upbringing? And I don't mean to blame the parents. But there must have been SOMETHING! Good, healthy-minded people usually do not just SNAP like that and become mass-murderers.Katrinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446770591516588794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-15667205897263809092012-12-15T14:43:01.347-05:002012-12-15T14:43:01.347-05:00I'm not sure anyone can explain to me in suffi...I'm not sure anyone can explain to me in sufficient terms how the perpetrator ever came to act out in such a manner.<br />But I am so tired of the major media outlets working so hard to one-up each other.<br />All they are actually doing is giving so much attention that the next one, <i>God forbid</i>, will try to top it.(not necessarily your) Uncle Skiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02705753220273516841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-85523443876871522142012-12-15T13:37:22.841-05:002012-12-15T13:37:22.841-05:00There are no words. Keep Newtown in yuor heart.There are no words. Keep Newtown in yuor heart.Joanne Noragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09834682329952369721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-39126104460832833802012-12-15T13:15:59.770-05:002012-12-15T13:15:59.770-05:00I could not pull myself away from the tv yesterday...I could not pull myself away from the tv yesterday. I have grandchildren the age of those poor innocent children. So senselessDazee Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08323163539682131873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-61850177980091530352012-12-15T10:58:13.427-05:002012-12-15T10:58:13.427-05:00What happened in Connecticut is so sad and so horr...What happened in Connecticut is so sad and so horrible, it is hard to wrap my mind around it. And while I don't want to agree with you I know that the government will seek to find an answer. Here is my take on the answer. Teach your children well.......the sickness of our society is the children not being taught right from wrong, respect, responsibility, self control. We do not lead by example. We do not let them know that they are important. And I say we...the non parents. How many of us give our time to an at risk youth, a troubled youngster, a neighborhood kid who needs a friend. We don't for a miriade of reason but none of them make their lives better. We leave it to the "others" to do. The teachers, the social workers, the police, parole, the courts. <br />Tell me that we can't believe that we can make a difference. Show me that we will try and I will guarantee that even if it is with one child, a difference will be made and that will be multiplied expedentially.<br />I don't want to agree with the notion that it takes a village, but it does. We all need to show love, respect, and respond to teaching the children well.<br />So when people say all we can do is pray, they are right. Pray for the families that are in agony, pray for our country to get off our butts and do the human correct thing...take responsibility and give all children the gift we (olders) were given, freedom to be children that have been taught life lessons so that they can succeed in managing themselves.OmaLindasOldeBaggsandStuftShirtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09589622524456973822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-46442830917170349762012-12-15T10:41:58.185-05:002012-12-15T10:41:58.185-05:00Unfortunately you can't legislate against craz...Unfortunately you can't legislate against crazy. <br /><br />Some politician will use this as a platform to add new gun control legislation which will restrict rights and freedom as you said. This won't help. It didn't help 25 years ago, 16 years ago or 2 years ago when attacks like these occurred in the UK. The UK has strict gun laws.John Chapmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06575901336277340191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-65826396855159623552012-12-15T10:40:08.508-05:002012-12-15T10:40:08.508-05:00Excellent post Cranky. It is sadness beyond belie...Excellent post Cranky. It is sadness beyond belief. It's pure evil. It's senseless. And as you say,it's here to stay.<br /><br />Will our daily security measures eventually resemble Israel? Probably.<br /><br />S Lowandslowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08608734222483888884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-67812736194185366972012-12-15T10:35:59.437-05:002012-12-15T10:35:59.437-05:00Very lovely posting. My thoughts and prayers also ...Very lovely posting. My thoughts and prayers also go out to those children, their parents and families, to the school staff and this small town as well as the first responders.<br />Enjoyed reading your posting.Gossip_Grlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06603645371306284338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-30906860276680503702012-12-15T08:54:03.492-05:002012-12-15T08:54:03.492-05:00Very well said and, sadly, too true.Very well said and, sadly, too true.Jeaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04810126999695733332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-45615389616486626122012-12-15T06:23:49.815-05:002012-12-15T06:23:49.815-05:00I am still in shock. A very sad day for our countr...I am still in shock. A very sad day for our country. Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02076872647506475270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-46944479599862435872012-12-15T05:28:00.043-05:002012-12-15T05:28:00.043-05:00It's hard to find the words that express the h...It's hard to find the words that express the horror I feel at this. It's totally incomprehensible and tragic.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04402703967636964187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-85448230077461748862012-12-15T03:44:50.763-05:002012-12-15T03:44:50.763-05:00this is soooo sad. The children. Your countrys los...this is soooo sad. The children. Your countrys loss. Norway had a similar thing happening about two years ago with 70 kids killed by one deluted man.. and... gets to you, doesn´t it. It get´s to me..So unnessesary, so bad...<br />I too, like you, have what i consider to be a pretty normal relationship withe death, being a nurse I see it often, and most of the time it´s a welcome guest, but for those children.. no. That´s just wrong. I feel for you and your contry today. best regards, fellow blogger from norwayrenatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03910793168285598572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-24944087181045724972012-12-15T01:16:07.926-05:002012-12-15T01:16:07.926-05:00It sounds like it will cost us our freedom to keep...It sounds like it will cost us our freedom to keep our freedom...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com