All across our country and the world for that matter, moms and dads sent
their little ones off to school. For many this was the last school day before
Christmas vacation. Now is a time for rejoicing and celebration and also time
away from the daily grind of school and homework. But for twenty little innocent
souls and eight grownups it would simply be their last day.
In the quaint little town of Newtown Conn. a deranged gunman would alter
the lives of so many in a matter of minutes. Adam Lanza walked into an
elementary school and committed the most horrible crime imaginable; he gunned
down school teachers and an entire classroom full of kindergarten children. At
the time of this writing no motive is known for what spurred this maniac into
such madness. Not that it would matter, the terrible damage and devastation to
these victims, their families, the community and even our country has already
been done.
As Newtown searches for answers as to why such an atrocity took place in
their town, I only hope the rest of the nation searches for a real way to
prevent such events from happening. There has to be a solution for keeping the
people that don't belong in school out of the school. This trend in school
shootings is on the rise, we need to quickly send that trend in the other
direction. Schools don't have to be patrolled by our military but they do need
to be secure. Courthouses across our nation are becoming more secure every day.
Why can't our schools where our most precious children go to learn and play
adopt the same policy.
God bless you Newtown, Conn., the victims and their parents and the whole
Sandy Hook Elementary School.
