RIP...

[hlthe2b]

Claire Davis, 17, shot at point blank range in Arapahoe High School shooting, sadly died tonight of her profound head injuries.

Just announced on local news www.9news.com



http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24773804/claire-davis-school-shooting-victim-is-dead
Claire Davis, the 17-year-old who was shot in the head during the shooting at Arapahoe High School, has died.

The high school senior died at 4:39 p.m. with her family at Littleton Adventist Hospital on Saturday after eight days on life support.

In a Facebook posting at 5:15 p.m., Littleton Adventist Hospital said:

"It is with heavy hearts that we share that at 4:29 p.m. this afternoon, Claire Davis passed away, with her family at her side. Despite the best efforts of our physicians and nursing staff, and Claire's fighting spirit, her injuries were too severe and the most advanced medical treatments could not prevent this tragic loss of life. Claire's death is immensely heartbreaking for our entire community, our staff and our families.

[El Supremo]

1. I was watching too.

Makes my losing my dog Thursday seem insignificant.

Her brother had a bad accident a while ago. I can't imagine what her parents are going through.

[tavalon]

51. No loss is insignificant,

but I hear you. No parent should see their child die, and die in such a horrific way.

[hlthe2b]

54. all loss is intensely personal to those grieving.

Sadly, Claire's is both a personal loss to family and friends and a huge public loss to all who have come to "know" and care for her--worldwide.

Arguably, though, the pain we feel for the loss of a pet, only heightens the compassion and empathy for others and their losses.

I'm sorry, El Supremo.

[chillfactor]

2. OMG..her family must be devastated....

another senseless death .... RIP Claire....

[politichew]

3. Another one has died in vain.

[lastlib]

42. NO--only if we let it.

Her death will be in vain if we sit on our comfy asses and do NOTHING to implore our legislators to act to stop the slaughter. If we will ALL rise up and say "No more Claires", "No more Newtowns", "No more Auroras", "No more Tucsons", then her death will mean something. Let Claire's legacy be a firm resolution on our part to take the steps to putting an end to this insanity.

[etherealtruth]

4. Absolutely horrific

[redwitch]

5. I am so sad for her family and friends.

She was young and healthy and beautiful and had everything to live for. How do parents of murdered children ever make it through?

[UtahLib]

6. So very sad. n/t

[Ken Burch]

7. Wayne LaPierre, if you're reading this...do the right thing and SHUT UP.

Leave this one alone...just leave it alone...her parents are hurting enough.

This isn't about gun owners and it isn't about YOU, Wayne. You and your kind are not the victims here.

[YoungDemCA]

9. +100000000000000000000000000

[CherokeeDem]

11. Exactly...

I agree with everything you said... the horror of it, is LaPierre and his ilk simply don't care.

RIP Claire....

[Hoyt]

18. That's what bothers me most. As long as gun crowd have their guns, the deaths don't matter.

Deaths, wounds, intimidation, they don't care.

[tosh]

21. Yeah, I'm with you on that.

Some that I personally know. Hearts of stone.

[lastlib]

43. I will never understand....

...how that basturd and his ilk can fellate their barrels with a clear conscience after these endless tragedies? I guess if you have no conscience, it gets easier..........

[font size=10]FUCK THE NRA!![/font size]

[flygal]

57. Not just them

the whole right wing noise machine getting their voters riled up with this whole threat of losing their gun rights just by enacting some laws that might deter a few of these mass shootings.
FUCK them all!

[Initech]

58. +10^100000000000!!!

Shut the fuck up Wayne!

[Ken Burch]

8. No words can truly help her family in this time.

You can say "I'm sorry" a million times, and it does nothing...she is still gone...

No parent should ever experience this.

[warrior1]

10. Rest in peace Claire

[Tx4obama]

12. ...

[demmiblue]

13. So sad...

[WilliamPitt]

14. Christmas in America.

Again.

3-year-old boy dies from self-inflicted gunshot wound

SAHUARITA, AZ (Tucson News Now) - A three-year-old boy is dead after a self-inflicted gun shot wound to the face.

According to Sahuarita Police, officers responded to a rescue follow up call in the 300 block of Calle Minerva yesterday.

Both parents were at the scene and spoke to detectives immediately. The firearm was reported to be inadvertently misplaced for a short while and found by the child.

The rest, if you can fucking stand it: http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/24279427/3-year-old-boy-dies-from-self-inflicted-gun-shot-wound?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer8c436&utm_medium=facebook

[grantcart]

38. Terrible

When in Tucson I spend 30% of my time in Sahuarita where a large percent of my Tucson clients live, and where we are considering moving to.

This is an area that has a disproportionate number of law enforcement families and I fear that the father was a law enforcement officer.

[Cha]

15. Oh no.. so unbearably sad. :(

RIP Claire Davis~

[Warren DeMontague]

16. Sigh.

very, very sad news.

[bvar22]

17. In other news,

Sarah Palin brags about buying her husband a powerful new gun for CHRISTMAS.

" Sarah surprised Todd with a "nice, needed, powerful gun" for Christmas in 2012. It was a "small act of civil disobedience," Palin writes, prompted by "the anti-gun chatter coming from Washington."

<excerpt from Palin's new "book">

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/good-grief-and-great-tits/Content?oid=18503580

I am so glad I don't have to spend my Solstice/Christmas anywhere near a Palin household.

Condolences to the Davis Family.
She was a beautiful, young woman,
gone way too soon.

[renate]

19. her poor family

I watched the documentary from which this comes only this afternoon:

Here's the text:

Dear Steve and Anita,
Rachel finished her work on earth, and left the stage in a manner that leaves those of us left behind with a cry of agony in our hearts, as the fragile thread of our faith is dealt with so violently. Is anyone strong enough to stay conscious through such teaching as you are receiving? Probably very few. And even they would only have a whisper of equanimity and peace amidst the screaming trumpets of their rage, grief, horror and desolation.
I can’t assuage your pain with any words, nor should I. For your pain is Rachel’s legacy to you. Not that she or I would inflict such pain by choice, but there it is. And it must burn its purifying way to completion. For something in you dies when you bear the unbearable, and it is only in that dark night of the soul that you are prepared to see as God sees, and to love as God loves.
Now is the time to let your grief find expression. No false strength. Now is the time to sit quietly and speak to Rachel, and thank her for being with you these few years, and encourage her to go on with whatever her work is, knowing that you will grow in compassion and wisdom from this experience. In my heart, I know that you and she will meet again and again, and recognize the many ways in which you have known each other. And when you meet you will know, in a flash, what now it is not given to you to know: Why this had to be the way it was.
Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts – if we can keep them open to God – will find their own intuitive way. Rachel came through you to do her work on earth, which includes her manner of death. Now her soul is free, and the love that you can share with her is invulnerable to the winds of changing time and space.
In that deep love,
include me.
In love,
Ram Dass

[hopemountain]

27. thank you, renate

for posting this reading of ram das letter.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

55. .

_/\_

[TBF]

20. ...

[tosh]

22. ...

[WillyT]

23. (((((((Claire Davis)))))))

[billh58]

24. So needless

and tragic. RIP and condolences to the family...

[riderinthestorm]

25. ((( Davis family))) RIP Claire

[postatomic]

26. I kept wondering how she survived that type of injury

Now I hear the news that she didn't.

[hopemountain]

28. rest in peace, miss claire

be at peace and forever sweet in the hearts of those who loved and knew you.

[aikoaiko]

29. A sad and tragic death.

[jimlup]

30. Very sad

I'm sorry everyone...

[likesmountains 52]

31. Damn..

[TeeYiYi]

32. RIP

TYY

[llmart]

33. So terribly sad....

another unnecessary and senseless death in gun-loving America. What an awful, disgraceful part of our culture is this gun fetish some people have. It and they disgust me.

I can't even imagine the pain these parents are going through and will go through for the rest of their lives.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

34. Senseless, tragic loss. :*(

[NuclearDem]

35. Another child is dead, and Wayne LaPierre is celebrating Christmas.

Yeah, no God.

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. ...

[flvegan]

37. This is a very unfortunate and tragic story. Why is the hospital Facebooking the events

Maybe I missed some of it, I haven't kept up with what happened here. I just know I don't think that I'd want the police, fire department, hospital or other party tweeting or Facebooking my passing. Especially with a 10 minute discrepancy. Maybe they were responding to a post about her passing posted by a family member, I don't know.

Get off my lawn.

[WillowTree]

39. I just felt my heart break. Be at peace, Claire.

[mountain grammy]

40. ....

[Catherine Vincent]

41. Gone too soon

Rest in peace, Claire Davis.

[truebluegreen]

44. ....

Fuck the NRA.

[sheshe2]

45. RIP,

Claire Davis~

[yuiyoshida]

46. Ki no doku desu. Kanashii wa.

konotabiha wa gosyusyou samadesu.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

47. Another beautiful life taken and another grieving family whose Christmas will

never be the same again.

FUCK OFF AND DIE TO ALL GUN NUTTERS!!!

DID YOU HEAR ME???

FUCK YOU!!!

[Little Star]

48. .

[onlyadream]

49. My daughter is her age

Claire should have been planning for college, prom, graduation. She went to school, like any other day. The thought that it would be her last (conscious) day is so sad.
How many children have to lose their lives? When will this stop? Had the boy had a knife instead of a gun, the outcome of this would more than likely be so much different. Chances are the boy wouldn't have felt empowered enough to enter the school. This needs to change.

[Le Taz Hot]

50. Another stupid, senseless death.

So young.

[niyad]

52. requiescat in pacem, claire. may your family find peace.

and, to all the gun nutters, I wish you every minute of the agony and suffering and loss your insanity has caused so many.

[WinstonSmith4740]

56. This is insane...

As a high school teacher (and just plain human), this breaks my heart. Another beautiful, young life snuffed out because Wayne LaPierre and 800,000 of his minions are stupid and crazy enough to think that rational gun laws somehow interfere with their "freedom" to make sure crazy people have access to assault weapons.

[Demo_Chris]

59. Pretty sure she was shot with a shotgun. nt

[WinstonSmith4740]

67. What she was killed with is irrelevent.

She's still dead. ALL guns are just too damned accessible to the wrong people in this country. I don't think Americans are any dumber or crazier than any other nationality, but our easy access to guns gives us a gun death rate that is so far over the top it's ridiculous. I'm not saying to round up all the guns...I'm a gun owner, and when I lived in LA, it was always with me. But when 90-95% of Americans say they want simple background checks on gun buyers, and Congress STILL can't get it done, we've got a serious problem.

[iandhr]

60. Another victim of senseless violence.

No words describe.

[CreekDog]

61. someone doesn't want this discussed here, it was alerted as off topic

i won't say their name, but it's not a secret.

Author: sheshe2
RIP, Claire
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024212908
Alerted by -----------: This belongs in one of the gun groups.

[hack89]

62. Hits close to home

My daughter is also an equestrian.

[gerogie2]

63. Sadly about 44 people are murdered each day

Repeal the 2nd amendment and out law all guns except for polic & military.

[hack89]

65. Just need Congress to get the ball rolling. Nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

64. rip

[santamargarita]

66. But this isn't the time to talk about gun control...

so the right-wing assholes say.