Six years ago my heart broke

[Sugarcoated]

I still cry for those innocent sweet girls and boys and their brave caregivers. #sandyhookpromise

[JuJuYoshida]

1. I cried in my office

Was just such a horrible day. Any child that dies at the hands of a madman is just tragic.

[Sugarcoated]

2. Yes, beyond sad.

I relive it every Dec 14th. I know Facebook isn't that big a deal but I have a lot of friends on there and aside from maybe two other people nobody acknowledges it. I don't understand.

[Sugarcoated]

3. They would've been twelve today...

[Squinch]

4. I have a niece and nephew, twins, who were first graders in the OTHER school in that town.

Six years ago, I almost had a heart attack thinking it was their class that was hit.

To this day I cannot imagine the pain those parents go through.

[Sugarcoated]

10. That must've been so awful to go through

What's seared in my brain forever is the scene at the firehouse where all the parents waited for word, as each set of parents were told their child was okay. The feelings and emotions of the remaining parents as the crowd whittled down and others were reunited with their children....

[Squinch]

13. It was only a half hour getting through to my sister but it almost did me in.

Two things stick with me: Obama crying and the cop talking about what it was.like in the building.

Some of Lanzas journals or something were released recently. What a disgusting slug of a person.

[Sugarcoated]

33. So many wtfs that day, so horrible I think I went into a mild form of shock

My husband called me that morning just to say hello and tell me he loved me, asked me how I was doing and I snapped at him. I think Lanza was a case of true mental illness, but his mother was a gun extremist and gave her son easy access.

[brooklynite]

5. Sorry, it's too soon to politicize this...

Thoughts and prayers.

[OldEurope]

17. I think you should consider to delete your post. /nft

[marybourg]

28. Poster forgot the

smilie but that’s what it was.

[OldEurope]

36. I think sarcasm is an inappropriate answer to the OP

Perhaps my English is to bad for understanding this. But sarcasm on broken hearts? Not ok for me.

[marybourg]

37. Yes, Perhaps it is.

[spanone]

6. we cry, the republicans yawn.

nothing has changed.

[sandensea]

21. They yawn, at best.

Mention Sandy Hook, and most will rattle off the NRA's conspiracy theories about how "they're still alive", how "Adam Lanza was under MK-Ultra mind control," or whatever other nonsense suits them at any given moment.

[spanone]

22. they disgust me.

[Leith]

7. All Our Hearts Broke

In the following days, I realized that cons and rethugs were completely devoid of any human feeling, empathy, or care. As long as they could come up with vicious conspiracy theories and excuses to defend firearms that could do this, they were beyond redemption. The louder they got - and they got much too loud - the more I knew that they would always refuse to see the horror and destruction they shared culpability for. That was the day when I finally realized that there was no reasoning with them, no talking to them, and no finding common ground with them.

[Sugarcoated]

35. Didn't know it at the time

but it was the beginning of the crazy that's taken over the country

[Bettie]

8. Those poor babies and the adults as well

I cried all day...tearing up today too.

The families of those kids have to live with that loss every day and it hurts so much to have that hole in your life. It never goes away. Never.

[demmiblue]

9. Indeed.

Link to tweet

[Sugarcoated]

11. I remember being so thankful to have a leader like President Obama to guide us through this

as compared to Sept 11th with Bush as president....night and day

[LuckyLib]

14. We once had a President who could feel, and who could say just the right thing.

[smirkymonkey]

24. Could you imagine how much more of a nightmare it would have been if Trump had been president

at that time?

[llmart]

20. OMG! I'm crying again.

I don't believe I'll ever get over this.

I lay the blame squarely on the fucking NRA who has fought every goddamned sensible gun control initiative for years and who has bought and paid for the fucking congresscritters who look the other way and take the money.

Yeah, I'm mad as hell. After six years what have we done to stop this madness? Did these children die in vain? What kind of a country are we that we keep moving on from one mass shooting to another? Why does the NRA even exist? Why have't we shut them down?

I don't know what to think any more. This is personal for me.

[3catwoman3]

12. As if the loss of one's child were not enough, the absurdity...

...and cruelty of those who deny Sandy Hook happened is nastiness beyond my comprehension. A hearty FU to those creeps.

[NewJeffCT]

15. and, an extra FU

to the person that called in a threat to the Sandy Hook school today.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/14/us/sandy-hook-evacuated-threat/index.html

[malaise]

25. I want an arrest as well as an

FU

[Luciferous]

29. My brother is one of those deniers- I haven't really talked to him since he told me that.

My son was a first grader when it happened, and I still remember all of the crying parents hugging their children outside our school at pick up that day. I tear up now thinking of those poor babies.

[Sugarcoated]

34. So is my BIL

And on the other side of it this year I became friends with a woman who is good friends, went to college with one of the dads who lost his son. It drives me crazy that those conspiracy psychos make those poor parents lives harder with their cruelty.

[Sugarcoated]

31. I know, right?

Bizarre beyond words. But I try.

[Dem2theMax]

16. My dad, who also happened to be my best friend, died that day.

He died that morning, in a hospital, surrounded by professionals, and me sitting there holding his hand. He was 93 years old. I had no idea of what was happening in the world that morning. It wasn't until a cousin sent me a text, to say she was sorry my dad had passed away, and she mentioned the 'horrible thing' that had happened. I didn't know what she was talking about, and I had to ask one of the nurses. She told me about all of these children who had just lost their lives.

I was already sitting there with a broken heart, but my dad got to have 93 wonderful years. And these little kids had their lives taken away.

I woke up this morning, and grief was the first thing I felt. It has been that way for the past six December fourteenths.
I cannot imagine how the parents of those children must feel, and not just on December 14th, but every day of their lives. They were cheated out of everything with their children. When, oh when will the insanity stop?

[malaise]

26. Too sad

[Sugarcoated]

32. I'm so very sorry

[lunatica]

18. I'm crying about it again

It’s almost an automatic reaction now, just thinking of all the victims over the years. The tears are always near the surface. I feel the same way about the children at the border.

[rurallib]

19. yep me too

ETA: I think one of the reasons I cry now is that nothing has been done since. School shootings still happen and the gun lobby is still politically huge

[malaise]

23. Six years

[johnp3907]

27. Most of the victims were 6.

Kids who are 6 now have no knowledge of a world where something like this seems unthinkable.

[aikoaiko]

30. Even as a RKBA DU member, I agree that there are things we can do to reduce gun killings

In terms of gun control Red Flag laws will probably have the most impact on mass shootings like the Sandy Hook massacre.

Universal background checks may reduce some guns in the criminal use pipeline.

Putting semi-autos on a low-cost NFA type registry would reduce their use and require deeper background checks.