Friday was one of the worst days i have experienced as a big brother in a very long time. Now obviously my life really in no way was affected by the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary, but it definitely puts things into perspective.
First thing it shows me is that it's amazing what people can do when they have something to rally behind. I mean this from the heart that to see all the amazing people I know forget about debating and be genuinely concerned, upset, and angry at what happened i felt showed that their is still a large part of the people in this world that can get past belief and rally together.
Second thing it showed me is that some people are so insensitive to these issues are are so blatantly oblivious to what really matters in this world, that all they can think to do is start a heated debate just so they can talk basically. To those people i feel bad for you. I posted on my facebook Friday about the incident and immediately people didn't take time to remember the kids, take time to honour the kids, all they wanted to do was debate. I understand the need to figure out what went wrong and fix it, which honestly between all the morons with uneducated opinions will never happen. But what ever happened to the need to mourn. The need to remember. The need to honour. Let the debates wait, let the arguing wait, these kids were taken too soon and they deserve to be remembered, mourned, and honoured.
Now being as this is a blog about sports, there is a side to this story affected by the wide world of sports. Tributes mostly, beautiful moments meant for nothing but to honour those we lost too soon. Players all over the NFL wrote the names of kids/teachers that were lost in this tragedy on their shoes. Chris Johnson wrote all 26 names on his shoes before his MNF game. Numerous teams had stickers on their helmets to honour the victims and victims families. Moments of silence were held all over the NFL, at Gillette stadium 26 flares were shot into the air one for each victim.
I think we should all take notes from what these players did. They took the time to honour, and remember, something a lot of us didn't do.
Getting away from the sports side of this, there is one more aspect of this i feel needs to be mentioned. The religious side of this. Now again i shared a video on my facebook page from Mike Huckabee i believe his name is. Now i feel its very clear from some of my posts that i am not a religious person. But at times like this people that are religious, need to be able to fall back on their faith. And this huge debate about whether or not he was right to say what he did or not, i feel misses the point. I think the big point he was making is that in times of tragedy and need people fall back to what comforts them. And for a large portion of people that religion. Taking religion out schools takes away from some kids something to fall back. From other kids it means nothing but whatever religion you take away from the kids that it is meaningful, it does take something away. And for people to debate religious views in my opinion is like beating a dead horse. Everyone has an opinion they are unwilling to change.
The real point i want to get across here is that now we can debate, argue, yell, scream, do whatever you have to do to make you feel like you have been heard and your opinion matters. But as a society we need to realise that there is a time for debate and a time for mourning, and how insensitive we have come to the mourning period is disgusting. Point and case, the poor kids who got thrown on TV after seeing there friends and classmates shot and killed, the journalist who did this need to be fired and anyone who thinks its OK they did this needs to reevaluate themselves because that was a disgusting show of journalism by those people.
In the end what happened was a tragedy, 20 kids and 6 adults taken much too soon, the innocence of every child in that school was taken, and families separated when they should be together waiting for Christmas to come. If anyone can make the story of what happened about a debate and not about the victims, i means every word of this your a disgusting person. To the families affected and the community torn apart by this tragedy i know none of you will read this but my heart goes out to you.
Charlotte Bacon-Age 6
Daniel Barden-Age 7
Rachel Davino-Age 29
Olivia Engel-Age 6
Josephine Gay-Age 7
Ana M. Marquez-Greene-Age 6
Dylan Hockley-Age 6
Dawn Hocksprung(Principal)-Age 47
Madeleine F Hsu-Age 6
Catherine V Hubbard-Age 6
Chase Kowalski-Age 7
Jesse Lewis-Age 6
James Mattioli-Age 6
Grace McDonnell-Age 7
Anne Marie Murphy-Age 6
Emilie Parker-Age 6
Jack Pinto-Age 6
Noah Pozner-Age 6
Caroline Previdi-Age 6
Jessica Rekos-Age 6
Avielle Richman-Age 6
Lauren Russeau-no age provided
Mary Sherlach-Age 56
Victoria Soto-Age 27
Benajamin Wheeler-Age 6
Allison N. Wyatt-Age 6
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