Newtown Connecticut

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TAZorek

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It is as difficult to put into words as it is to process in the mind and heart. There were significant losses suffered today by persons that are unknown to most of us. Yet as we watch or read about the horrific deaths in Connecticut it is not possible to withhold feelings of sadness and Love.
Prayers, vigilant candles, heart filled comments, flags at half mast and many other means are being used to express a nations grief on such a fateful day.
All too often in this life many of us have been social witness to crimes and terror, aggression and senselessness that resulted in the loss of many lives. All sad, all felt, all remembered. This day holds a particular kind of sadness. First and foremost are the families that must now endure such an atrocity. I can not begin to understand how they feel. Any words of intended comfort at this time, no matter how eloquent, would seem empty and void.
Throughout our day there was no doubt a strange difficulty to not think, at least in back of the mind, about this days event. Tears as showers must be falling ever relentlessly among the families, friends and residents.
This thought of lamenting brings about an even greater sadness and words more void. I tear as these words are written.
I tear because I cannot change anything, yet the wish is there, ever burdening me to say something. Something that will release, if not the victims, then perhaps my own sorrow, at least a little.
I can offer no more with any honesty than any other person.
A moment of silence.
A moment that spans the time it takes for a tear to roll past the cheek and fall to the earth.
To the families, friends and residents of Newtown, Connecticut I regret I have no other words to say except these:
“I am sorry. Through the hazing tears of your own on this dreadful day -- I hope my silent moment is enough.”

Love always, Everyone.
 
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zone

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i too am heartbroken and weeping. and praying.
Lord God, in your Mercy, hear our prayers.
 
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Indubitably

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I'm heartbroken and tears have been falling throughout the day. It's incomprehensible! God bless that little town and all it's citizens. FGatyher, Place your love and tender care on all those who lost loved ones today in this senseless act. Comfort them , Jesus, comfort them!

Beautiful post, TAZorek!
 
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simplyme_bekah

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I am afraid we will be seeing more and more of this stuff because we are I think at the end of times and didn't it say that at the end times will get really really dark? :( My prayers go out to all of the broken hearts that hurt so badly right now. So many babies went home to heaven today.
 
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TAZorek

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Matthew 2:18 ; “A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be comforted, because they are no more.”


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TAZorek

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Indubitably said:
I'm heartbroken and tears have been falling throughout the day. It's incomprehensible! God bless that little town and all it's citizens. FGatyher, Place your love and tender care on all those who lost loved ones today in this senseless act. Comfort them , Jesus, comfort them!
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If I could 'like' this post twice, I would.

'LIKE'

:) :(
 
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unclefester

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It is heartbreaking beyond words Taz. God help us all.
 
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TAZorek

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simplyme_bekah said:
I am afraid we will be seeing more and more of this stuff because we are I think at the end of times and didn't it say that at the end times will get really really dark? :( My prayers go out to all of the broken hearts that hurt so badly right now. So many babies went home to heaven today.
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The End times indeed...

:( :)
 
pickles

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Sometimes a sorrow is too great, it presses down so with so much weight, it keeps us from breathing fully.
So much sorrow for those broken and our hearts breaking with them.
Why is a question we all will ask, and long to be removed if we do learn why.
The one comfort, the one hope, and the one joy we see by faith, is hope in His care, and draw comfort in His perfect love.
Is , Jesus, God Our Father, His holy Spirit!
For we know these children are trully safe in His arms. ( Thankyou unclefester, for the pick.)
May we lift up all in our prayers in Jesus's name , the parents, the families, the children who lived through this, and all in this nation and all on this earth.

For even though we walk through the vally of the shadow of death, the Lord is with us.
For God will wipe every tear from their eyes, there will be no more sorrow or pain.

Praying for all in Jesus Christ is Lord come in the flesh.

God bless, and God's comfort given.
pickles
 
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TAZorek

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pickles said:
...The one comfort, the one hope, and the one joy we see by faith, is hope in His care, and draw comfort in His perfect love.
Is , Jesus, God Our Father, His holy Spirit!
For we know these children are trully safe in His arms. ( Thankyou unclefester, for the pick.)
May we lift up all in our prayers in Jesus's name , the parents, the families, the children who lived through this,

For even though we walk through the vally of the shadow of death, the Lord is with us.
For God will wipe every tear from their eyes, there will be no more sorrow or pain.

Praying for all in Jesus Christ is Lord come in the flesh.

God bless, and God's comfort given.
pickles
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... "We see by faith" -- until all is well for those who don't, we will see for them

:) :) :(
 
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psychomom

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If we weep...how must they feel.......:(

Christmas lights and decorations everywhere you turn
But all you feel inside is dark and gray
There may be joy for all the world but is there any joy for you
Hold on, Love is looking for a way
Hold on, I believe it’s why love came. (Steven Curtis Chapman)

Abba...please...by Your great mercy,
make them know...
they are loved.
 
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shirley

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as i am so heartbroken i will pray for these parents who lost there precious little children and all the families of conneticut ;my heart is sadened and i feel so upset this happened ; please god please dry the tears of this community be near these parents comfort them ; as i light my candle today let me remember your love is never so close to their heart i pray ;
 
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Soteria

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I am so sorry for all the families, I pray that they persevere in their faith this must be the hardest time in alll their lives.
Why?
:'-(
 
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simplyme_bekah

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Schools and students are targets worldwide

BEIJING (AP) — A half-day before a young gunman committed one of the deadliest school attacks in U.S. history, a Chinese farmer took a kitchen knife and hacked at more than 20 children as they entered their rural elementary school.

Though the outcomes are different — 28 dead in Connecticut, and 23 injured in China — the Friday attacks show how disturbingly frequent rampages against children and schools are. Attackers often seek out the vulnerable, hoping to amplify their outrage before they themselves often commit suicide. News of one mass killing often serves as inspiration and blueprint to other potential mass killers.

"It's these disaffected people who are angry at the world, who plan to take out as many people as they can, and there's some element there of notoriety," said forensic psychologist James Ogloff of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. "It's a way of becoming infamous."

Mass killings, when an individual tries to kill as many people at one time as possible, have occurred in places as far away as Switzerland, where 14 people died in a shooting spree by an unemployed man who then killed himself in 2001, to South Korea, where a police officer killed 56 people before he blew himself up in 1982. Distinct from acts of terror that have political or collective aims, other mass killers act out of personal grievances.

Attacks against schools are a bleak subset, offering easy targets for taking down large numbers of victims. Shootings at schools have periodically occurred in Finland and Germany as well as the U.S., though the American attacks have been more frequent.

China has seen more than a half-dozen school attacks in less than three years, though the death tolls have been mostly in single digits, largely because knives have been the most-used weapon. China largely prohibits private ownership of guns.

"They choose to attack school students who are weak in defending themselves and are easily assaulted," said Zhu Zhuohong, an associate researcher in psychology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Ogloff, the forensic psychologist who has studied both spree and serial killers in the U.S., Canada and Australia, said that a break-down in a relationship or a humiliating experience often acts as a triggering event for mass shooters. After Thomas Hamilton killed 16 kindergarteners and a teacher at an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996, reports said that he had been suspected of inappropriate behavior with boys he oversaw in a youth group and that letters he wrote talked of persecution by police and authorities for forcing him from taking part in boys clubs and for causing a business he ran to fail.

While police in Connecticut and in China have so far not given motives for Friday's attacks, both began with single assaults. Twenty-year-old Adam Lanza first shot his mother in their home in the New England town of Newtown before driving to the nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School; armed with two handguns, he shot into two classrooms, killing 20 people and six adults and then apparently shooting himself.

Min Yingjun, a 36-year-old resident of Guangshan, an area of tea and rice farms in central China, burst into the home of an elderly woman and stabbed her with a kitchen knife, the government's Xinhua News Agency reported. Min then went to the Chenpeng Village Primary School, slashing at 22 students, ages 6 to 12, as they arrived for class. Seven of the students, some with severed fingers and ears, required hospitalization, Xinhua said.

Though Min did not die — he was grabbed by police at the scene and is under arrest — Zhu, the psychologist, said many mass attacks should be seen as "expanded suicide." The attackers, often in a state of depression, believe society is malicious or unsafe and wants others to die with them, said Zhu.

Police described Min as possibly being "mentally ill," Xinhua said, and a law enforcement official briefed on the Connecticut shooting told The Associated Press that Lanza was believed to suffer from a personality disorder. But overall, said Ogloff, very few mass shooters are mentally ill.

Most perpetrators are young men, and their common traits — an interest in the military or violence — are so widespread as to make it impossible to identify potential killers, said Ogloff. Spree shootings, he said, are increasing and becoming deadlier because each killing leaves a blueprint for others to follow.

"Imagine you're a kid and you're 20 years old, and you're angry at the world and you're fascinated with the military and you're in a situation where you want to end your life. ... You're influenced by all the ones who've gone before you," said Ogloff, who has overseen the treatment of Martin Bryant, who shot 35 people at Port Arthur, a former penal colony and tourist site, in Tasmania in 1996.

The spate of school attacks in China — six in a seven-month period in 2010 — have raised concerns about copycats. News media in China, all of which are state-controlled, gave wide coverage to the Connecticut attack. But they ran the same brief Xinhua report about Friday's knifings in Guangshan, and local officials refused to provide more information, signs that authorities want to restrict the news either to prevent encouraging others or to play down the crime to keep blame off the government.

If identifying possible perpetrators is difficult, providing better access to mental health services and restricting the availability of firearms are key to reducing the numbers of victims, experts said.

"It's interesting that you have two individuals entering schools but because of the means of their attacks — one with firearms, one with a knife — there's an extreme disparity in the casualties," said Christian Chan, a professor of psychology at Hong Kong University. "It's the means that we can control, not necessarily the psychology of people. Throughout history there will always be people who might lose it."

Tight controls mean that gun crimes are rare in China and make knives and sometimes explosives the weapons used in mass attacks in China. Even so, violence is on the rise as people grow frustrated with a corrupt and often indifferent officialdom and seek other means to address grievances.

"The social environment is a factor behind attacks in China," said Ku Jianhui, a lawyer with the Beijing Xindong law firm. "A person who chooses extreme acts to voice his or her grievances usually believes that his or her cases were unable to be handled fairly through normal channels or legal procedures."
 
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shekaniah

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I have been sending up liquid prayers...
 
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Halo

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As tragic as we all are are aware that this event was when it took place, at the same time we are are also aware of the fact that GOD had HIS motives for allowing it to occur in the frist place though I'm not at all anticipating anyone to understand me on this perspective for I have not just lost a great loved character of my life to a disipcable accident like this, but when the moving on stage takes place here's something to consider, but still my heart FULLY goes out to those who lost their kids to this deplorable incident. All things possible through GOD who strengthens me. May GOD be with you all.
 
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