No one likes to think about it, but try imagining what it must be like for the families of the 26 killed to have one day — December 14 — be infinitely worse than every other day of the year. To have to tuck away somewhere in a dark corner of their consciousness, the knowledge that a member of their family was tracked down and slaughtered in an elementary school by a maniac armed with high-powered weapons that serve no purpose other than to kill humans.

Then try imagining what those people must think of the rest of the country that — after a suitable period of mourning and dithering about what to do — did absolutely nothing because, in many ways, that is what we do best when confronted with tough decisions.

We have let a collection of kooks and armed sociopaths bully us into accepting that the watering the Tree of Liberty with blood of first graders is the price of freedom and vigilance.

Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook shooter, was the end product of our country’s toxic gun culture; his mother proudly collected and boasted about her guns and taught her emotionally disturbed son how to shoot. And he repaid her by shooting her in her bed with one of her own guns.

Lanza then walked into Sandy Hook Elementary armed with two handguns and a Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle, along with 10 magazines carrying 30 rounds apiece. And then he began slaughtering screaming children. It’s just that simple.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/three-years-ago-all-of-these-kids-were-slaughtered-and-america-decided-to-look-the-other-way/