Living Life More Fully After Newtown Shootings
The Sandy Hook school shootings had a profound effect on columnist Elizabeth Fish. The New Year offers the opportunity for change.
The Newtown shootings have affected me even more so than Columbine, the movie theatre shootings in Colorado, or any of the dozens of other shootings that have been in the news this year. Newtown really hit me very hard. The fact that a person went to a local elementary school, shot his way in and killed every adult and child in his way, for little, if any, apparent reason is devastating. Maybe it is because I have a first grade child at a local elementary school. And there was little that could have been done at Sandy Hook or any other elementary school to prevent such a tragedy. I still get teary thinking about the shooting and cannot fathom how President Barack Obama named each victim in his speech at Newtown days after the shooting. …
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Jessy C
3:25 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
The Newtown tragedy left us all very profoundly affected...more so than the previous mass shootings. I certainly can't speak for everyone, but I think one reason is because the victims were just so young and innocent...Children that age don't even understand the concept of meaningless violence, and yet they were on the receiving end...That hurts so much to think about that. And as a parent, I … more ›