Don't read this. Just ... don't.

[Robb]

It's too late for me, but you can still turn back.

For children who witnessed Newtown shooting, fear and nightmares line path to recovery

NEWTOWN, Conn. — A few nights after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, David Posey heard a strange noise in his house and went upstairs to check on his son. The little boy, who had just seen his teacher and a first-grade classmate gunned down, was pounding on the floor.

“I know where the bad guy is,” the child told his father, indicating down below, in hell. “I’m beating him up.”

Hundreds of children at the school that day survived the shooting, but the horrors have been especially difficult to overcome for some of the 6- and 7-year-olds who witnessed the bloodbath. Among the survivors are a dozen first-graders from the two classrooms where the gunman opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle.

Nightmares are persistent, and any reminder of the attack — a fire alarm, a clap of thunder, even the sound of an intercom — can stir feelings of panic. At the building in a neighboring town where the survivors recently began a new school year, signs ask people to close doors softly and not to drag objects across the floor.

[hlthe2b]

1. gasp.....

[Hoyt]

2. All the dead and scared kids are just a small price to pay to allow yahoos to tote guns in public,

and accumulate a small arms cache. Such callousness ought to disqualify someone from owning a gun.

[freshwest]

3. And gun fanatics wonder why we don't want them carrying their guns in public just because they can..

[Cha]

4. Good point, fresh.. :(

[Warren DeMontague]

5. no words.

[freshwest]

6. Having dealt with traumatized kids, this is normal. But nothing will ever be normal for them again.

There comes a time when the resonance of violence never leaves a person. In some cases, the mind breaks completely.

Yet the NRA insisted on going against the parents, and the Joneses, Becks, Teabaggers, Paulites and Libertarians came and still come to every venue to tell them they're lying and they are frauds, fascists, communists and killers for asking for some forbearance and decency.

They insist their rights trump the torment of children and revel in the weapons of death and say they will kill. In other words, I'm too angry and have seen way too much to speak about this in the logical and well-reasoned way that I should.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. yeah

fuck those people, that's about all I can come up with.

[steve2470]

8. This just underscores once again that the current situation is untenable

It's bad enough when adults are traumatized but children ???? This is completely unacceptable and really tragic.

I don't know what the exact answer is, but the NRA needs to come up with better answers than EVERYONE NEEDS A GUN AT ALL TIMES.

/rant off

[malaise]

9. Well they'd better get over themselves because only the rights of the

NRA matter in DC.

Fuck the NRA!