tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post6433787952596428156..comments2023-10-20T00:57:09.883-07:00Comments on Stupid Stork: TragedyStupid Storkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00161877442649107282noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-57301041716358370722012-12-17T18:31:10.928-08:002012-12-17T18:31:10.928-08:00I've worked with the nurse at Sandy Hook- talk...I've worked with the nurse at Sandy Hook- talking to her to help her with her software off an on for years. Software that she used to take care of 'her' kids. Some of those, that are no longer here. I think about having those kids medical records stop. As if in midair. I've got a distant link, but a link that brought me to my knees when the news broke. <br /><br />I hate this. I hate the evil, needless deaths, and all the despair. Tuttihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05892495385717172227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-54387365306131595902012-12-15T11:02:49.449-08:002012-12-15T11:02:49.449-08:00And I you.. it's unbelievable. They're ent...And I you.. it's unbelievable. They're entire world has to have just ended.. That's what I keep thinking about. This will eventually be a footnote for us down the road, and for them this will be everyday, forever.Stupid Storkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00161877442649107282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-60908500615098162112012-12-15T11:01:50.082-08:002012-12-15T11:01:50.082-08:00Do you really think he was feeling something? I j...Do you really think he was feeling something? I just think that he has to have gone to such a dark place that everything eventually just shut down and was replaced by nothing but anger.. I can't even begin to imagine what was going on in his head, really.<br /><br />Yeah, I grew up in a house with guns and even though in a perfect world I think there would be no use for them it's an imperfect world. and I can't say that I'll never have one, I can't. I just wouldn't mind it one bit if they made me jump through many more hoops to get one.<br /><br />I just think of what a pain in the ass it is for me to get a drivers license, and the main purpose of operating a car is to get places. It wouldn't stop things like this from happening entirely I just think if we could come up with a plan that would utterly fail 95% of the time that would be a huge improvement.<br /><br />But yeah, mental health is really a discussion that needs to happen and I think that's unfortunately an even grayer area to tackle.Stupid Storkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00161877442649107282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-30315945055141275012012-12-15T10:56:47.272-08:002012-12-15T10:56:47.272-08:00Omg Aramis - those were my exact, weird thoughts w...Omg Aramis - those were my exact, weird thoughts when it happened.... I started thinking about presents under the tree, and can't help but thinking about it from the perspective of an infertile. (I mean obviously it's HORRID either way, but that would be my lens to look at it through as you say). I worked my ass off to get pregnant, and it lasted about a week. I look at women who have lost further along pregnancies and absolute shock (and awe that they're able to even cope). Going through all that, and then having them for 5 years only to lose them? Unimaginable. Stupid Storkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00161877442649107282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-12639847673136432552012-12-15T10:54:26.700-08:002012-12-15T10:54:26.700-08:00Agreed.Agreed.Stupid Storkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00161877442649107282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-60106491601673730042012-12-15T10:54:17.063-08:002012-12-15T10:54:17.063-08:00It does feel like the world has gone coo coo. Som...It does feel like the world has gone coo coo. Someone put up a quote on facebook today that I loved - that we're living in "the most illuminated of dark ages".Stupid Storkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00161877442649107282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-50371856725590354852012-12-15T10:53:37.802-08:002012-12-15T10:53:37.802-08:00Totally agree you put it much more eloquently than...Totally agree you put it much more eloquently than I... I think gun control is certainly a conversation that needs to be had (if for no other reason than we can make it just a TINY, TINY bit more difficult to obtain I think it would be a huge difference) but mental health is really the key issue here and unfortunately I think that's even a harder issue to really tackle.Stupid Storkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00161877442649107282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-60653218540133102102012-12-15T10:42:25.125-08:002012-12-15T10:42:25.125-08:00I think I agree with you in the sense that mental ...I think I agree with you in the sense that mental health is the bigger issue here (I grew up in a house with guns, I don't like them but I don't want to take them away from everone).<br /><br />But the key difference between that article with a stabbing and this incident with a gun is that in the stabbing, no deaths were reported. Guns tend to be a bit more efficient.Stupid Storkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00161877442649107282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-60771975779288318342012-12-15T09:47:34.696-08:002012-12-15T09:47:34.696-08:00Love you. Well said. Such a sad day for these f...Love you. Well said. Such a sad day for these families. KayBeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08658373485056670950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-23854095267303210702012-12-15T09:35:26.980-08:002012-12-15T09:35:26.980-08:00http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-attac...http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-attacks-22-kids-knife-china-school-article-1.1220230<br /><br />The above link is to an article about a man in China wielding it on children. Guns aren't the problem, violence in general is the problem and it is world wide.Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06316511791499949824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-41711736565219032762012-12-15T09:27:42.532-08:002012-12-15T09:27:42.532-08:00I know. I cried too. There are days I'm afra...I know. I cried too. There are days I'm afraid to leave my house. It's just nuts lately.Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06316511791499949824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-31352876616638513262012-12-15T09:26:36.002-08:002012-12-15T09:26:36.002-08:00Anything can be used as weapon including my knitti...Anything can be used as weapon including my knitting needles. I sure hope we don't ban those.Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06316511791499949824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-50870217504159274242012-12-15T09:24:35.944-08:002012-12-15T09:24:35.944-08:00I really feel bad for the loss of human life. The...I really feel bad for the loss of human life. The ache I feel in my chest isn't soon to go away. So many, so young.<br /><br />No, I don't think the person was dead inside. He was obviously feeling some really negative thoughts towards his mother and the children she taught. He had to have felt something. I've seen people shut down and feel nothing. The ones that feel nothing curl up into the fetal position or just sit and stare out the window. Even if he had only a mild history of mental illness most mental health clinics won't let a patient go to a home where there are guns. The guns should have been removed to a safe place like the police station or to a friend that had a permit if that mentally ill man was to reside in that house with his mom.<br /><br />I have a permit to carry concealed. I keep all my firearms locked with the specified locks on them, in locked cases, stored in a locked special cabinet. The ammunition is stored far away in another room of the house from the fire arms again locked up. I don't have to take these precautions but I choose to do so. Though I've had my permit to carry for a few years I have yet to actually care a gun on my person. It is a choice.<br /><br />I really wish more folks that had fire arms would be smart about how they store them. Seriously the mom had a part in this for blame though I hate to think ill of the dead. She obviously didn't store the fire arms securely if her mentally ill son had access to them.<br /><br />Yes, he had to feel something to have done this. We won't know if this could have been avoided. We will never know for sure if he would have just gone out and stolen a weapon from a neighbor or friend if his mom didn't have them in the house either. <br /><br />Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06316511791499949824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-22769929658100206652012-12-15T06:23:33.304-08:002012-12-15T06:23:33.304-08:00I can't even begin to imagine the grief that t...I can't even begin to imagine the grief that these parents must be going through right now. And at Christmas? I keep thinking of these poor parents going home to Christmas gifts that won't ever be unwrapped and it hurts my heart. Little brothers and sisters who don't understand where their sibling is. I know we always end up looking at these kinds of things through our own lens, and I can't help but think about whether any of these parents struggled with infertility. How much crueler to lose a child that you never thought you'd be able to have, but then miraculously did. (I'm definitely not saying the grief is worse than a fertile parent, just that it's a horrible circumstance). I'm not American, but I can't help but feel that if this situation isn't enough to open the conversation about gun laws, then nothing ever will be.Aramishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12275274008426941898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-84845298731947214672012-12-15T05:06:26.501-08:002012-12-15T05:06:26.501-08:00:-( <3:-( <3Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-42037004497027352792012-12-15T00:00:43.432-08:002012-12-15T00:00:43.432-08:00Who kills 20 babies? I ccan stop crying when I thi...Who kills 20 babies? I ccan stop crying when I think about it. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16076233862135803049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-70248209043960784262012-12-14T21:22:03.632-08:002012-12-14T21:22:03.632-08:00So, so very sad. I'm sad for the children who ...So, so very sad. I'm sad for the children who died, and for every single one of their families and everyone who knew them.<br /><br />We have pretty strict gun control here in Australia, and a lot of that legislation came into effect after a single gunman killed 35 people at a tourist attraction (Port Arthur Prison Camp.) And yet we still insist on murdering each other with guns. Guns are already here, already available if you know where to look and the people who want them so they can do evil are the people who are going to find a gun, no matter what. gun control might fix the odd impulsive drunken shooting of one person, but mass shootings like this are not like that. They have some level of planning, and unless every single gun in the whole world is destroyed, they're going to be able to get their hands on one. I just think that advocating for better mental health care and awareness is a much more realistic and achievable way of reducing things like this happening. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-17776581339749869812012-12-14T18:59:36.119-08:002012-12-14T18:59:36.119-08:00I'm with you.I'm with you.Stupid Storkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00161877442649107282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-79852828783983986062012-12-14T18:59:26.893-08:002012-12-14T18:59:26.893-08:00It is unimaginable.
Yeah, if it were up to me I w...It is unimaginable.<br /><br />Yeah, if it were up to me I would ban guns except for people who need them for work... but the 'other side' is so hell bent on owning guns it'll never happen. I don't understand the concept of not at least meeting in the middle though, with some SERIOUS gun control. I mean, it's more difficult to get a drivers license and the purpose of cars isn't to kill.Stupid Storkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00161877442649107282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-16316119489064419842012-12-14T16:34:27.258-08:002012-12-14T16:34:27.258-08:00Violence is never an answer, it solves nothing. W...Violence is never an answer, it solves nothing. We need to learn to show more compassion, caring, communication, and peace. Peaceful resolution is the answer I can think of.Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04080529677449655463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470508210648484887.post-26969658352991833352012-12-14T16:27:41.682-08:002012-12-14T16:27:41.682-08:00You write beautifully and movingly even, maybe esp...You write beautifully and movingly even, maybe especially, when it just comes straight out. <br /><br />And because I know you value honesty, I can honestly say I have never once felt sorry for the absence of privately owned guns in England nor wished we had them. <br /><br />I have been thinking of those poor families all afternoon. Just just unimaginable.Lunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02655205298951083138noreply@blogger.com