Good gawd. Enough. When you get right down to it, there will always be a better more efficient way to kill. And a lunatic willing to put that better way into practice. No amount of gun control or psychiatric care is going to stop it. Although horrific, 26 kids and teachers is statistically insignificant. The same can be said for the 3000+ people who died in 9/11, when compared to metropolitan NYC. And the couple 100k who died in Hiroshima and Nagaski, when compared to the population of Japan or if expanded to the world population. The numbers are to great. If they stop 1000 nut jobs who want to die and take a crowd with them, there is still the one that will be successful.

I do see our young people as our future. I hope my kids are smarter than the generation they follow. Unfortunately the human race has short memories and we don't learn from our mistakes as our history proves over and over.

I know I can only speak for myself here and want you to know Subgirl I never dismiss anyone just due to age. I believe I learn from people of all ages at anytime. I also believe we all learn everyday if you are open to it.

This horrific tragedy happened for many reasons and some which we will never know.Yes it needs to be talked about, debated, screamed about and even dreamt about.I believe the point of the media blowing this up and almost celebrating these killers is valid but it is also a fine line at times. I can speak as the media being my family and work background.You have to keep it interesting and new and even sensational to keep people watching, listening, hearing, reading, and hopefully talking about what happened. The reasons are where the lines get blurred. Is it to get more viewers and in the end more awards and more advertisers? Is it to keep it in the media for the purpose of getting the public to debate this? Political reasons? I can go on and on but you get the picture. EVERYONE has an agenda! In the end the media is a business and they do things to make money and keeping things sensational makes them money. A new type of reporting and in some cases even networks get born out of these types of things.There was a horrible crash many years ago I believe before you were born, on Long Island.Many of the passengers that died or got hurt were orphan children being flown in. It was very sad. Every news crew was there from every station.My brother was on one of the news crews first on the scene. He won an award from that that never gets mentioned on his resume yet he cherishes it more than any of his multitudes of awards. He and his crew were the ONLY ones that 1)Didn't stick a camera in any bloody face and ask "How are you feeling right now" as so many others did. 2)They didn't attack the families of the people killed as they were collapsing to the floor in tears as they were told about their families.and most of all 3) They put their cameras and note pads down to help pull people out.

After that event the media was blasted for the disgusting way they covered the crash. They all met and tried to discuss new standards of more respect etc. They discussed the "Going out in a blaze of glory" thing that many of these mass murderers have. There was one a few years ago that actually left a note or a blog that said he wanted his "name and face to be everywhere" . The media will never balance this completely as long as the public demands this stuff and they do.

Most people wish they could do something to help or change something especially when bad thins happen.Wanting to do something and being able to are very different things. People aren't "Bitching" they are venting, mostly out of frustration for not being able to stop these horrific events.Try to be open minded enough to know that even if you don't believe in something it doesn't necessarily mean it does not exist. It just means you just have no proof it does. And understand that if some do believe and it helps them get through something like this then that can be a great thing.It doesn't mean everyone sits back and says "It's god will therefor I will do nothing but pray." You don't think the majority of people do that.