From the beginning, what little I read of her condition made me think she'd never be anything like the person she was.

I cannot imagine the pain her family is going through.

My heart breaks for her family.

All her future potential is now lost. Damn.

This shooting was breaking news when I turned on the TV on Tuesday. So much other news has eclipsed it since, but I've still been following the story - which I really hoped wouldn't end like this.

Even though it looked bad from what I'd read.

Just once I hoped for a happy ending in one of these horrific tragedies. But, the nature of these events stacks the deck against anything but heartbreak.

Once again we're left lost and hurting.

I don't do prayers, but I'm going to be thinking of Jaelynn and her family tonight.

She looked like she was from a far different dimension within herself, one who would have been more likely to bear her fear, suffering, anger, desperation on her own, looking for ways to overcome, without harming others.

The world needs far more people like her, not fewer.

I hope the family can someday be happy as well as sad when they remember happy memories of their beautiful child.

I would seriously think about beating the crap out of those reporters if it had been my daughter. Not to mention the dad who allowed him access to the gun.

I don't even know what to say. I wish the family all the best in their time of grief.

And this doesn't include the number of kids who lost fingers, toes, knees, arms, legs, ears, feet, facial features, the ability to walk again.
I don't know what the injuries were like, but I do know that all hear about are those who passed on. Not those whose lives will never be the same.
We don't hear about the extent of the injuries of those who survived.
It fucking SUCKS!!!!
I fucking HATE guns!

who had their daughter be deprived of 02 when they did surgery on her throat, and they kept insisting on keeping her on life support after her docs declared the girl brain dead. Don't remember the outcome of that one, is she still "alive"?

Violence against women and girls are at the heart of MANY, if not most, shootings.

That fact needs to be highlighted.