Can't imagine what it's like for them. How do you get those images out of your memory?

And my heart absolutely breaks for the entire town of Newtown.

It was an English course about literature which struggled to convey things and concepts which words could not truly describe.

This had to be the epitome of The Unspeakable.

Those images will never leave them.

So tragic. So horrible.

those of us who are not in that position can never imagine. And they see it again and again. Hopefully, these particular people will never have to see anything this horrific ever again (and I would give anything if no one else would either), but every day they go out, there is no telling what they will be faced with.

Though for me stuff like sids is the worse as its young infants and the peacefullness of the scene.

makes my heart stop.

Their honesty about how they were affected, about how even "tough guys" break down in tears, about PTSD, will help others.

I wish them, and all affected, love and healing.

How can you see those innocent poor babies blown to bits and not have PTSD?

Rare thing, but nice to see nonetheless.

How so? Do you have evidence of this?

What DU does not appreciate is authoritarians who shoot first and get absolved second. You are trying too hard to slander DU. I wonder why.

K&R

may they become warriors for peace.

It did. Assault rifles are going away. Get over it.

that it sickens me as well to see gun-control proponents exploit this tragedy to push a political agenda, and has from the beginning. It's being used to manipulate the emotions of the public to achieve a long-held political goal. Don't like it.

But when you see things like "Father Of Kid Killed in Newtown Shooting Heckled At State Senate Hearing", how fucked up is that and what does it say about our society?

I mean, THAT is what you find "sickening" about this?! That it is being used to support gun control?! Wow. Just wow.

But then the Great God Gun must always come first.

Always.

Dang. Who knew?

Yeah we shouldn't point out that had we done something long ago this wouldn't have happened. Gun control advocates should just not say anything. Your comment literally makes me ill.

same thing as those pushing for stronger gun laws in the wake of the tragedy.

eom

I'm all for it.

the first responders, and the rest of the majority of the country would feel if gun-control proponents just sat quietly and did nothing.

I have to say...that it sickens me to see comments like yours posted here.

And if this wasn't DU, I wouldn't use the word screw. We're not exploiting anything. We're tired of seeing this. That means ridding our nation of the pestilence that is assault rifles.

You have your opinion on the matter, I have mine.

If you have something to say to me that you are too afraid to post, you can always pm me.

Really. Wtf are you talking about?

You have lost all credibility and legitimacy. You did it to yourself.

I like cjeekdog.

happening again? Seriously?

If it's too much for you to handle, maybe you should make use of the ignore feature.

Just sayn'.

D'oh! Forgot who I was talking to...

I'll have to find more of your posts next time I have trouble sleeping.

Read them all!

Sleep well.

Shock and horror aren't aberrations in this case, nor are they manufactured.

The status quo serves particular moneyed interests who insist on absolute power and absolute fealty. Gun control advocates represent law enforcement survivors, victims, communities.

I wish you'd just left your comment off, especially considering the OP.

You find it inappropriate to use the Newtown massacre as an impetus for gun reform. Please, tell me more, Skip.

with legally obtained assault weapons is something we shouldn't talk about because it's exploiting a tragedy? Our emotions are being manipulated? Really? Do you have any emotions? If you own these weapons, I'm afraid of you.

in 2010 - a woman named Martha Dean. She ended up losing by about 10%, but it's scary that she was that close to a statewide office even though she was the state teabagger's dream candidate. When going through a divorce, her now ex-husband had gotten their son into some prestigious science program for the summer, however Dean took the son out of the science program and had him go to some shooting camp for teens that summer instead.

These guns have got to go!

I sure hope you're right, Initech.

Congress is already trying to jump off to the next big thing (immigration reform). Seems like an odd distraction to me. Hope they don't lose memory of the horrors of Newtown... I hope I'm wrong - but I'm feeling more and more pessimistic lately. The pain of that day will live on, but Washington seems to be putting it on the backburner/ignoring it/letting it "go away".

Rooms full of dead babies. I can't imagine.

All first responders deserve our praise and support, and they ought to get paid a heckuva lot more. First responders should be making millions of dollars, not CEOs.

The pay structure of our entire society is disgusting. There are many people who gnash their teeth and lament our society's ultimate downfall...not me...I am rooting for the next group to get it right where we have gone so irretrievably wrong.

I feel that our pay scale is flipped the wrong way. People who enjoy power should be willing to do those jobs with fairly low pay. After all, they get a lot of perks. In contrast, people who do the essential work that keeps us alive and healthy - first responders, nurses and doctors (especially primary care doctors), fire fighters, police officers, garbage collectors, plumbers, public works employees, ditch diggers, and others who do difficult, essential work should get paid millions.

Please don't forget teachers. We are -- sadly -- counted as victims of school shootings like this one. I cannot imagine the horror of a deranged gun wielder threatening my precious students. I cannot imagine the horror of witnessing the aftermath of such insane violence.

You see lots of horrible things. I worked the ER and critical care. School bus accidents, child abuse cases, motorcycle and auto accidents, all manner of trauma came in. All were bad.

I appreciate what you did. I'm sorry for what you had to see.

One day when my kids were little we saw an ambulance parked in a strip mall near our house. The paramedics seemed to be on their lunch break. Thinking that they wouldn't mind if I showed my kids the ambulance, I approached them and asked if my kids could look at the inside of the ambulance. The paramedics looked so sad when they saw my kids. They said something about all the little kids they'd had to care for in that ambulance. I realized how deadly serious this was.

This one gets to me.

The horror of this incident is just too much to bear.

Giving out details just to make people have "feelings".

You aren't supposed to have "feelings".

That's for wimps.

We're AMERICANS damn it!

We're supposed to be cold, dead in the center assholes only concerned with the intrusive government taking away our freedom to sit in homes with bars on the windows giving us a view like we are in prison as we point a $2,500 AR-15 at the door to protect our $40 Walmart DVD player.

Of soldiers in Afghanistan who have to see such things on regular basis.

I mean, seriously, he should get some serious mental health treatment.

part of their job?

They will never fully recover, though I think they can go on to live successful lives.

This is so wrong.

Before each House of Congress.

Anytime I slip into thinking what that scene must have looked like I just have to turn it off.

May the victims of this atrocity rest in peace. Here's hoping more sensible gun laws will be enacted in the near future.

Maybe it'll give us the strength to overcome the hate and deal with reality.