Please Give Me Today

Wow.  Could I ask a favor to anyone reading this?  Whether you are a friend, family or a complete stranger, could I ask that should you ever wake up one day and have the uncontrollable urge to shoot a little kid, please shoot yourself in the face first? Yes, if I know you I will be saddened by this outcome.  But I will get over it a lot quicker than if you kill a little kid.

Forgive me, that was a little blunt. But I am more than a little pissed off about this whole thing.  And now I get to hear both sides dust off their same old arguments on how to solve this problem.  It is funny how the only answer is either more control on guns or less control on guns. I’m not going to pretend that I know what the answer is either, but I know it is not going to come from a knee-jerk reactionary social media status update.

Okay, maybe that was a little blunt too.  Forgive me, I just need time to process this and arguments on how to proceed after the Connecticut shootings just aren’t helping.

They were 6 and 7 . . . 6 and 7!

I keep picturing myself and everyone I have ever known when we were 6 and 7. I had barely begun to live.  Then I think of all the great things those same people have done since they were 6 and 7 and it breaks my heart that these 20 children won’t get that same chance.  On what planet is there a good enough reason to do that?

I know that actions need to be taken to keep this from happening again, but I don’t need to be drug into the same old argument about what those actions should be – not today. Today I need to remember those kids.  Today I need to pray for those kids, the teachers, and their families.  Today I need to pray for the children and teachers that are in my life.  I’ll sit through all your propaganda tomorrow; please just give me today.

Until next we meet.