Another Sad Day In Our Country

Today another school was attacked. 26 victims. 18 of them children. It was not a high school or college. This was an elementary school. The dead children are kindergarten children! Babies!

When did it become open season on our children?!

I cannot even imagine the anguish the parents are going through right now. How do you explain to children their friends, brothers, and sisters are dead because "bad" people just one day decided to open fire on helpless children? How do you explain to parents your child is dead and it happened in a place where they were suppose to be safe? A place you trusted to send them too.

How do you explain to a nation that our children are no longer safe in school? That we have pushed God out of our schools and our country and now no one, not even babies are safe to leave their homes. 

Are we going to have to lock down all our schools now and place armed guards or police in them? So our children feel more like they are being sent to prison every day instead of a place of learning and a place to be with friends and feel safe? Do we home school our children and do away with public schools completely? 

I may not know all the facts of what took place this morning but I do know this: An entire Kindergarten class was wiped out by someone who planned this and someone who strolled right in with guns. I know there are 18 babies dead. I know there are 8 adults dead. I know there are  brothers, sisters, spouses, mothers and fathers who will never find peace again in their lives. And I know that today..in this country...even our schools are not safe.

I am pro-gun ownership. I know that some will now lobby for stricter gun control but that will not help. It was not the guns who killed all these people. It was a man who just happen to use guns as the means. How did this obviously disturbed or maybe even evil person manage to go through life and someone not notice he would some day do this evil act? How could anyone who knew this was going to happen not call the police? Surely he had to mention his plans to someone. Maybe that person did not take him seriously but they still could have  told someone!

How could God have let this happen? Perhaps because we have pushed him out of our schools and country because of a minority of people who find him offensive. Maybe because the majority of us who are Christians let them. We did not have the backbone to tell them we do not want to hear your blasphemy so instead, we kept quiet. Because we did not want to "offend" them. 

I, for one, have a firm and unshakable belief in God. I have never seen him but I have seen the miracles he has performed in my family. I do not need to see him to know he is real and I do not need to see proof of his existence. I see it every day I wake up in the morning and walk outside my home. I see him every day in the faces of my children. And I read his word every day in my Bible.

What happened today is not God's fault. It is not a gun's fault. It is the fault of the individual who decided he was going to walk into that school and perform his evil act. He alone is responsible for the massacre in that school. Him and his accomplices. The shooter took the easy way out. He is dead. In my opinion, everyone involved should have done the same thing. 

I will pray and ask God to open his arms for all the innocent people who have died today. I will ask him to comfort the parents and relatives and let them find peace and justice.  I will ask him to show mercy on this country.  And I will ask him to forgive me for being glad the shooter is dead and wanting his accomplices to die a horrible death.