I have lived on this planet long enough to wonder whether there will ever be a day when we can be sure that such events will never happen again........
Of course at first, it starts out with the headline, and you don't really appreciate the enormity of it straight away....
In my life on this earth there have been too many mass shooting events to remember them all but the loss of lives so young cannot ever be forgotten in the minds of us, even though we are just remote strangers.....when you see the President of the USA visibly moved, trying his damnedest to hold in his tears.... you just have to hope and pray that pain that he feels, that we can all feel as fellow humans, will be the moment to truely make something good happen.....
I don't mean more legislation.... to tend to the symptoms....but somehow find the catalyst that cause these events..... I realise that in a world of 7 billion people, there will always be evil amongst us...... but we switch on our TV's and we are gilded with the images of shoot em up, fire em up, kill em up....... so called entertainment games.....I've heard all the nonsense about how porn movies don't make rapists and shooting games don't make killers..... but next time one of these adverts comes on the TV, just watch it...watch how it glorifies mass killing with no repercussions .... and ask yourself .... are our children really not affected by this ?......of course the pro-gun..... pro-shooting games lobbyist say that the vast majority of people are responsible and would never be affected by them.... in much the same way that driving games don't make us all speeding motorist when we hit the road.....
I am not saying that we should control matters by censorship of shooting games..... but there is no glory in the killing of cartoon characters under the banner of Black Ops behind enemy lines....... It is about how we see fellow humans and the misguided belief that somehow guns solve so much......he's got a gun so I need a gun, he's got a ballistic missile so I need a ballistic missile, he's got nuclear weapons so I must have nuclear weapons...... where does it all end ?......with the senseless killing of these children perhaps ?
I remember the sadness I felt over the Dunblane killings....my eldest daughter was 5 years old at the time and had just started her first school and my wife, a primary school teacher, had just returned to work full time, and I when I saw the killings at Dunblane primary school...... I thought....... there but for the grace of god go I........ and so when I saw the news unfold on Friday night..... I thought..... there but for the grace of god go I......
Even as I type this, the bodies of those Newtown children still lay where they fell..... and you ask your self..... why ? why ? why ?........
There are times when good honest people must ask of us all...........when will this madness stop ?...can this madness ever stop ?....... if nothing else in this world......[and no I wasn't impressed by the dismissal of Osama Bin Laden] .....if nothing else in this world, I hope the tears of Barack Obama are not wasted....and that he makes a difference.... for those children left behind in the wreckage of this mess.
Today is not a day for music.... today is a day for prayers.... I will say a prayer tonight....
These are the words taken from the stone memorial at Dunblane Cathedral..... I took a photograph of it, the picture sits on the wall of my study......
IF
THERE IS
ANYTHING
THAT WILL
ENDURE
THE EYE OF
GOD
because
it is pure
IT IS
THE SPIRIT
of
A LITTLE
CHILD
