Saturday, December 15, 2012

Suffer The Little Children …

 

Words are insufficient to describe one’s feelings surrounding yesterday’s massacre of little children at the Sandy Hill Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut, so I won’t even attempt to do so.

I cannot though stop thinking of the terror those little folks felt during their slaughter.

What I want to focus on this morning is the message the President gave which I found to be very moving:

  • “Our hearts are broken today”, he said with tears in his eyes and then went on to say, “the majority of those who died were children – beautiful little kids between the ages of five and 10 years old”.
  • In regard to America’s corrosive gun culture, he called for “meaningful action” to prevent such shootings from occurring in the future; and regarding the young victims, he had this to say,  
  • “They had their entire lives ahead of them – birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own”.

Profound words all.

Regarding his pledge to “take meaningful action” against their corrosive gun culture, I wish him luck but doubt that too much of significance can be done given that the ‘right to bear arms’ is protected in their Constitution. A constitution that was written well over 200 years ago with things changing a little bit since then.

But that said, the time has long past when the average citizen needs to be ‘packing’. Guns should only be available to farmers and to legitimate hunters – i.e.  those who have taken gun possession courses, and hunter safety courses, and have a valid annual hunting licence.  And only then as it relates to hunting rifles and not to handguns nor automatic weapons on any kind.

If any good can come out of this terrible event, serious gun control would be it and I wish the President success on this.

I take a somewhat different view on his statement about what these tiny victims losing out on – birthdays, weddings and the like. Not because I take exception to his statement – not at all – it is a very moving commentary and all of it too true.  But it causes me to focus on the millions of Americans each year that are subject to this self same statement – that is to say, those poor souls who are needlessly aborted for convenience purposes.  Why does the President fail to speak for them as well?

I can tell you why – he is a big proponent of unrestricted abortion.

Yesterday some 20 young children died needlessly at the hands of a pistol carrying madman.  They are truly deserving of our thoughts, prayers and tears.

But so are the countless numbers of healthy aborted babies around the world who also will not be around to celebrate their “birthdays, graduations, weddings, (or) have kids of their own”. 

It is all a great tragedy and one that each of us must live with until the youngest and most defenseless are save to survive.

As I see it…

‘K.D. Galagher’