My Facebook post on the shootings

You know. I was sitting here thinking this morning about the tragic shooting in CT this past week. My heart goes out to all the families and friends who lost someone important to them like everybody else does.

My thing is how many children are killed around the world every day due to instruments of war? How many children were killed due to our invasion of Iraq (most CONSERVATIVE accounts say about 1200 children in Iraq as a direct result to our bombings and not counting IEDs and such)? How many children are dying from starvation, pestilence, AIDS, ethnic and tribal cleansing, etc? Where is the out pouring of emotions for these children?

I weep for our nation for sure. Not only because as a nation that can see the kind of violence we saw in CT this week (along with all the other mass shootings we witness every few months) and turn it into a pro or anti gun political discussion. But, I truly weep for our nation when we stop and take notice when a mass murder like CT, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, etc but turn a blind eye to the death of 1000's of children through out the world or supporting the very war machine that is directly responsible for the death of so many. A child is a child regardless of their religious, political or cultural beliefs.