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Scarlett Lewis noticed the chalk-written message on her kitchen chalkboard when returning home for the first time – days after her son Jesse was taken from her on Dec. 14.
“It was in 6-year-old handwriting. Right about where he’d be standing,” says Lewis from her Sandy Hook, Conn., farmhouse. “It’s phonetically spelled. It's very clear what it says. I was stunned.”
Lewis described her son as an “energetic, happy boy” whose personality could dominate a room. This type of message, however, was out of the ordinary for him but feels it was left for when she and her oldest son, J.T., would need it most.
“He isn’t the type of boy who would write that. He was loving and sweet and kind but that was a prophetic statement. I felt like it came from his spirit.”
It was this same message that the single mom sent while eulogizing her son. “I said, ‘I have something for you to do for us. That’s to consciously change an angry thought into a loving one,’ because it is a choice.”
That is now the mission of the newly formed Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation. Lewis hopes it grows from the chalkboard to the pulpit to – one day – your child’s classroom. She is meeting with professional educators to create a school curriculum that will be taught nationwide.
“This will be taught right along math, reading and writing. It will be a life management course.”
Lewis was the first family member to speak at Wednesday’s Legislative Gun Violence Prevention and Children’s Safety hearing held in Newtown, Conn. She says she is not looking to get involved in the political debate that has followed the shootings. Rather, she will focus on a message that can be supported on all sides of the discussion.
“I feel like he wrote that message for a reason and handed me a torch. I’m gonna take it and hopefully – with everyone's help – change the world so this will never happen again.”
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I hope this mother, along with all mothers, fathers and everyone affected by the loss of a loved one due to gun violence, will one day find healing, peace and brighter days ahead. In a nation which will see far fewer deaths from such causes.But only when the violent nature of man himself becomes changed, will true change be possible. Regardless of what weapons or form is used. Until that happens, reducing guns won't change anything.
Here is my take on the gun controversy. It is not a gun problem alone. It is a people problem first and a gun type/capacity problem second.
We as a people have become selfish, self-centered, and uncaring. We remain central to our own needs and forget about the poor, disenfranchised and mentally ill of this world. We believe that if we go to church on Sunday, we can do whatever the hell we want during the week and make up for it on the next Sunday. Or for those that do not believe in a God or Higher Power outside themselves, that we are above all this caring for others, if they couldn’t do it like I did, well that is just too bad, they are on their own.
As to the gun type/ capacity, there is no need for semi-automatic/high capacity magazine guns in the possession of individuals. These weapons are meant for military use only! In all their wisdom I don’t think the founders of this Nation would have conceived of something that would take out 30-50 people in a couple of minutes. Canons were available in those days and the Constitution did no say, … and the right to bear arms and canons.
We no longer want immigrants in this country, even though we are descendants of immigrants. The focus of our representatives in Congress is not on what is good for humanity, it is on what is good for their pockets and those of their backers.
Our growth is in wealth and self-serving pursuits rather than those of our fellow man. The opposite of what a spiritual path requires. So, we sit and gripe at our fellows and blame everyone and everything other than the real culprits … We the People.
If only the NRA had a corresponding "soul..."
Alas, guns are Truth.
If only the gun control organization and the NRA would stop the name calling and talk nice maybe some of the problems can be met halfway for one side and halfway for the other side and We need to keep The Congress and the President out of it.. The Senate and the house will only vote to please the VOTERS Think People
Dan, Talk nice? They make it sound like if you belong to the NRA your part of some radical militant group. I've been a life member for 40 years the NRA has always been a mouthpiece for the average joe. there are to many fiensteins out there. The government doesn't hear the people they work for so you need someone to make them hear. obama is not interested in getting a handle on gun violence like make laws where if you harm or kill a person in the commission of a crime your get life or the death penalty. NO plea bargins. They aren't looking to stop crime all they see are hi capacity magazines and assault rifles and WHY because they have an agenda and that is get your guns. They say OH NO we aren't after your guns but i've watch obama for 4 years now and i have never seen a two faced lying piece of crap like him in my life. Obama is well on the way to ruining this country people listen to his smooth line of BS and everyday he sinks the ship a little deeper.
An amazing message from her 6 year old son.
Sandy Hook will put us on the right track "Nurturing. Healing. Love." can be the salvation of the nation if we can continue to move forward putting people before fear. Level headed gun and ammunition control can bring down the death.
We must march forward and put it right.
I am having a real hard time with this story. I had ignored some of the Newtown Conspiracy Stories. However, this story makes many red light bulbs go off. I am sorry to sound so skeptical and cold but what five or six year old is aware or even should be aware of such words as nurturing and healing. As a counselor, I find this disturbing that this child has this on his mind instead of normal things such as happiness or joy at his age. Maybe I need to go back to the U-Tube Sandy Hook Conspiracy videos involving actors, etc and tell myself that yes these must be way out there and that this could not be a part of this. What the government and the left won't do for all of us to make this situation into a melowdrama to put the focus on gun control which everyone knows is not the answer. The healing needs to take place within our nation in dealing with criminals and the truly mentally ill.
Female from US, I am having a real hard time with your comment. As a self-described counselor, you spell it "melowdrama"? Maybe, if by "counselor", you mean "troll", then I guess that fits. U-Tube? Really? You NRA apologists are just too ignorant for your own cause.
Female from the US- I agree... I work with a lot of children, many of them gifted and a 5 year old would not say or write anything like that..seems odd to me.
Allen, Talk nice. 'hey make it sound like if you belong to the NRA your part of some radical militant group.'
'i've watch obama for 4 years now and i have never seen a two faced lying piece of crap like him in my life. Obama is well on the way to ruining this country people listen to his smooth line of BS and everyday he sinks the ship a little deeper'.
Guess a sane person can act like a radical but a radical can not act like a sane person. Thanks for proving the point.
BTW, the people do speak and the numbers show that most would be fine with universal checks even for person to person gun sales. So apparently you are deaf like the NRA and that flip flopping POS mouthpiece you whore out to the American people.
Ruining the country... you mean moving the country forward not stuck in the past like you and your ilk
repartee, what do you think a semi automatic/high capacity gun is? I assume you are referring to "Assault Rifles" if so please inform yourself. The Newton shootings were not carried out with an "Assault Rifle", handguns only. They were however semi automatic handguns. So do you propose we ban all semi automatic weapons? Which includes most guns currently used for personal defense. The whole high capacity argument is ridiculous an extra magazine for a handgun is normally in the $10-$30 range. At that cost most people can afford to carry as many as they would like. Now lets say we did ban all semi automatic weapons. Would we then ban fertilizers like the ones Timothy McVeigh used for the Oklahoma city bombing? Where does it stop? When do we realize we need to teach our children the value of life and not take away law abiding citizens rights?
I would vote for limits on all magazines that hold over 7 rounds, especially handguns. Exceptions only for police and military
Female and apple: I thought the same thing when I read the article. Unless this was "divine intervention" then I don't believe this story for one second. If in fact it was written on the chalkboard, where are the pictures, did anyone else have access to the home. I don't think this came from a six year old child. I don't buy it. I was in an orphanage at six years of age, I was going through a lot with my mom dying of cancer and my father in jail. I didn't know these words, let alone write them phonetically on a blackboard out of the clear blue. Hogwash. And Jennifer, professionals make mistakes in spelling. I believe that more than I believe this story.
There are pictures, goggle it. Who knows maybe it was part of his lessons. Why do you have to be so negative?
From the mouths of babes. Amen Little One!
Female from the US
I am having so many problems with your comment...
* Melowdrama (SERIOUSLY?)
*the U-tube (WHAT EDUCATED PERSON SAYS THIS?)
* you profess to know about 5 or 6 year olds and think they would know about happiness and joy over nurturing and caring (AS A KINDERGARTEN TEACHER, I CAN TELL YOU WE HAVE SOCIAL SKILL LESSONS ABOUT NURTURING AND CARING. THESE WORDS ARE USED AND PART OF CURRICULUM. SHE SAID THEY WERE PHONETICALLY SPELLED...SOUNDS PLAUSIBLE TO ME.)
This is nothing more than a LAME attempt to continue to bring up the ridiculous conspiracy CRAP!
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I LOVE her idea. Teach kindness. Teach respect. Teach love. Teach anger management. Do it. Do it!
Finally, a PRO-ACTIVE response to this tragedy! My child's school spends so much time teaching how NOT to bully, what NOT to be. It's not working. As a matter of fact, I think it just plants bad ideas in the heads of impressionable young minds. Wrong approach! You catch more bees with honey, my mother always said. So I say... Go Scarlett Lewis, Go! Teach something positive for a change. Our kids need this. We all need this.
Can You teach the gangs and the sick people to be nice.... >???
You can teach a child whose life is filled with violence and hatred that something else exists. They cannot seek it, learn it or adopt it if they don't know it exists. I agree with MamaBearoo. This is exactly the curriculum our educational system has been missing.
Dan,
"Can You teach the gangs and the sick people to be nice.... >???"
Have you tried? You won't know the answer to that until you try.
Yes, Dan, you can teach it. What we're seeing is the effects of NOT teaching it. Most people are so busy working to buy more and more useless crap they don't need, and forgetting they have young, impressionable lives in their care, depending on them for everything, including how to think. Not what to think, but how.
I agree.. teaching empathy in our schools and to love each other is something that is equally important to math, science etc. Life skills are being ignored too much schools, and unfortunately most children are not getting it at home because parents are too busy.
Applehead, et al...look into Waldorf education you might find that what's missing from public schools has been taught in Waldorf schools since they began.
Waldorf schools teach a great deal of pseudoscience, and we DO NOT need any more of that nonsense. If you look into them, read EVERYTHING about them. They DON'T teach critical thought at all.
No. Don't look into this garbage.
@Kynetick - I am not familiar with the document(s) you are quoting from. Could you please provide the source(s)? I will read them.
All of your comments regarding science notwithstanding, Applehead 123 was expressing her sentiment that empathy, love and life skills are not being taught enough in the schools. Waldorf education excels in these areas.
In regards to these attributes, a child can do much much worse than a Waldorf education...and in fact most do.
The change needed starts in the home, not by any government dictating what is right or wrong!
MamaBear00,
I agree 100%. When I was a child I was taught to be careful of what I thought, as thoughts were concrete objects, and as soon as you think a thought it can become a reality. I was also taught that the golden rule is the number one rule and must always be followed.
dr821,
It should start at home and be reinforced in school. Such things were reinforced at school when I went, but that was a long time ago and now it seems the only thing reinforced is test scores. Test scores are important, but not the most important, if you have no social skills, good test scores alone won't get you very far in life.
Teaching children that there is an alternative to violence is the first thing we should teach them. And all of us should be teaching it, teachers, parents, relatives, and neighbors. How many times have you asked your child, "How would you feel if????" If every child were taught to imagine themselves in the situation of another, if they were taught empathy, it would be far more difficult to bully and harm others. One of the classic signs of a sociopath is a complete lack of empathy. So the more you teach children how to feel empathy, the further you take them from violence and bullying. It can be a positive message. "If you could tell him how you were feeling, what would you say?" These life skills can be taught.
I used these lessons on my own children and all of them are loving, caring, empathic adults. None of them would ever choose to harm another human being. Most importantly, we must model the behavior we wish to create. Instead of condemning, seek to understand. Instead of judging, teach to ask why. Love your neighbor, even the cranky, grouchy guy who doesn't want you walking on his lawn.
I admire this woman and the message. Not sure that a 6 yr old is usually that 'profound' in what they write. but the message is good.
This makes me think of what the Dali Lama once said:
"my religion is kindness."
:-)
This whole thing is so correct. Until we work on the "people" problem we have in this country no amount of laws will change what we have. You cannot legislate morality. Family values, love, caring, respect and the list could go on is what we need to work on. People without these values have no regard for the laws. I hope this catches on, we sure need it. I hope all the family's are able to move on as hard as it will be, those lost will never be forgotten.
Touched by an angel.
Internet journalism strikes again. Quotation marks are attributed to what the mother said. Is what the son said totally in the quotes attributed to the mother. I don't know. I would really like to see a pure quote attributed to the son's writing. Everybody's a journalist now. I guess everybody can be anything they want to be nowadays without any training. I hope this movement doesn't hit the medical field.
I don't know what you are reading, but the 1st line tells it all as to who said what.
It's unfathomable to think what the parents and relatives of all these 26 murdered innocent souls are going through. And there are some people who think this was staged by the government! These would be your far Right gun nuts who hate the government and believe in government conspiracies. These people should not be allowed to own a weapon,as they are obviously insane,paranoid nut jobs. Okay they can have a squirt gun or cap gun.
If the NRA had a conscious and a soul,they would start a fund for the Newtown relatives,instead all they do is spew their crazed paranoid gun nut BS. And all the little lemming gun nuts run to gun shops to buy more weapons. Heck of a job NRA! The gun manufactures love you!
There has not been one of these horrific crimes committed in these school shootings that was committed by a member of the NRA. Excuse me but if you knew anything about research, you would know that in just about all the last 20+ cases everyone of these kids were coming off of some prescribed hyypertrophic drug. So I think that you need to look to another direction for your misplaced blame.
Don't bother trying to rationalize with these people. We know the real problem is mental illness and the lack of access to care for it.
Good luck with teaching kindness,caring and love to far Right gun nuts. All they care about is their guns,people do't matter to them unless it's a fellow far Right gun nut. I see little or no sympathy from these people,concerning the victims of these massacres.
ANTHYONYVET, YOU see little or NO sympathy from THESE people? THAT'S because THESE people had NOTHING to do with them getting killed. The F-ing criminal killed them not an average honest citizen that owns a gun. You are PATHETIC.
ALLEN, sure pal, you and the other gun crazies did not kill these childred. But what you gun loons did do is make truly lethal weapons like the AR-15 as common in our society as chewing gum. And this plethora of these para military guns made it possible for a very disturbed young man to commint mayhem.
Spare me the tired NRA rant about guns not killing people, that is a bald faced lie. Shortly after the shootings in Newtown a deranged man in China entered a school and began attacking school kids. He attaced 22 of them. Do you know how many died??? None, not a one because he attaced them with knife and while they all sustained wounds none of them lost their lives. And if freedom for firearms is so great then how come fully automatic weapons have been banned for 70 years in this country??? Is that encroaching on your "Second Ammendment Right's" as well because you can't play with a Tommy Gun?? How about Stinger missles or a pack howizter?? Where do you draw the line? If the gun loons had their way they'd turn this nation into an armed encampment though come to think of it, with 300 million firearms in circulation we already are one and we have the homicide rate to prove it. Name me one other industrialized nation with a homicide rate like ours, particularly with firearms.
A curious way to enter into what is supposed to be a well-reasoned discourse, as opposed to your preferred "flamethrower" technique.
What, exactly is a 'gun nut'?
A plaid-clad flannel shirted 'good old boy out deer hunting?
A gang-banger from the inner city?
A jewel merchant who keeps him/herself protected against a robbery?
A small store owner who keeps a shotgun nearby, in case some drunken brute wants to tear the place up?
The men who guard our VIPs?
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STEVEN, how about guys who have a small armoury in their basement with hundreds if not thousands of rounds of ammo. And let's remember that the god fearing, patriots over at the NRA have even resisted the banning of "Cop Killer Bullets" because as we all know that would be the beginning of the "slippery slope" and all of us "gun grabbers" would take your precious killing machines away from you. One wonders where is the line? Fully automatic weapons were made all but illegal many decades ago and why is that? Because the bad guys were using Tommy guns to blast everything in sight. What makes an AR-15 any different? The people who buy these things (and make the gun makers incredibly wealthy) more often than not are frustrated special forces, wannabees who get their jollies playing GI Joe. Those are gun nuts
People who say that they need these weapons to help fight off a "tyrannical" government are gun loons as well. These are people who actually think that they have the right to possess the very same weapons of lethality that their policed departements and yes even the military have. If you don't think that is insanity they I really don't know what would convince this.
Seriously
AnthonyVet, can't there be differences of opinion without name-calling? It really shows ignorance that rather than coming up with any real argument, all you can do is call people names. Both sides on this debate have VALID concerns and points. Both sides. And strangely enough, the vast majority of BOTH sides are would love nothing more than to stop this from happening again. There are also a very very very very small minority on BOTH sides that may not want to stop this from occurring - and yes, whether right or left, that tiny minority
is as you put it, "nuts". By continuously attacking and name calling almost half of the US population, you certainly won't help solve this issue or any other issue.
The message from this wonderful little 6 year-old boy is similar to the one I'm trying to spread my friends and anyone else who will listen. The killings and increase of violence in America have less to do about weapons and more to do with changing hearts. Why so much anger? Why do so many carry on in their daily lives with such a vicious and destructive spirit? Why does intense competition sometimes result in violence, whether it be at a sporting event or on the highway? Why are so many losing respect not only for themselves but for others as well? Why is human life losing value for so many? My feeling is that we need to concentrate much less on weapons and much more on changing hearts.
This is not a gun control issue. The bullet is sent on its way by an angry or hate-filled heart. Scarlett Lewis is going straight to the heart of the matter, because it is the heart and soul that must be educated and awakened to non-violence. Martin Luther King, a student of Mohandas Gandhi, showed us how to effect dramatic social change without violence.
Right now, we Americans are tearing each other apart and in doing so we are tearing our nation apart. Every one of you that spouts your particular brand of anger and hatred, demonizing those who disagree, is digging a shovelful of dirt for our country's grave. YOU. Not "them."
Mrs. Lewis has found an issue on which we can all agree. You go, girl!
Yea, yea, yea, we've heard all the NRA talking points ad nausea, "guns don't kill people, blah, blah, blah."
Guess what? Martin Luther King was assasinated with a firearm as are most homicides in this country. We are a nation awash in firearms and woe to anyone who calls out to this situation. We are bombarded by "constituional expers" who rant endlessly about the second ammendment, as if most of the gun crazy crowd knew the first god damn thing about the constitution. Or we are forced to listen to the mentally unbalanced who would have us believe that they are protection all our freedoms from a "tyrannical" governement. This nonsens would be hilarious were the end results not so tragic.
Guns do indeed kill people and they are incredibly efficient in doing so. AR-15's are nothing less than killing machines for frustrated GI Joe wannabees. I would have thought that some of the Right would pay heed to what General Colin Powell as well as General Stanley McCrystal recently said, that these weapons are battlefield implements and have no place in the civilian world. Sadly there is far too much money to be made peddling these damn things for manufacturers to stop peddlhing them. Every crazed, feeble minded nutcase who is paranoid of "Big Government" coming to take all his guns away feels obligated to have a small arsenal of AR's and the like in their basement.
Can you imagine how much better this world would be if all the gun crazies put their energies into doing things that really promote freedom, like fighting poverty, illiteracy, bigotry, vast income disparity, helping the disabled, fighting disease and sickness and a thousand other truly pressing issues that we are faced with. But no, that's not nearly as fun as playing soldier boy with firearms.
JFK was assassinated too with a gun.
MLK was killed with (allegedly) a pump-action rifle. JFK was killed with an Italian WWII bolt action rifle.
The issue isn't the tool, it's the violent act itself.
Hyperbole.
I can imagine many more efficient means of killing a lot of people in a hurry. So could 19 guys with box-cutters.
Stop trying to deny me my freedoms based on your speculation. America is America because of the Constitution. That includes the Second Amendment.
I have many firearms, the same reason a golfer has more than one club. Shotguns play a role, as do small-caliber rimfire arms. Center-fire rifles can be used in a number of applications, including target shooting, varmint relief, harvesting meat (instead of paying someone else to package it up all pretty for me).
And, these guns can be used for defense, if needed.
If Uncle Sam can trust me with a firearm, than you can too.
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Really STEVEN?? Name me some other homicides committed with box cutters and explosives? Funny, cause fire arms sure do seem to be the weapon of choice 9 out of 10 times.
Sorry but Uncle Sam does not trust you to possess fully automatic weapons nor other military or para military weapons. They therefore must be infringing upon your Second Ammendment Rights.
Justice Scalia, arguable the most conservative Justice on the Court clearly stated in a 2008 ruling that citizens were allowed to possess hand guns in their house for self defense. He went on to say further that the Second Ammendment had limitations just as "freedom of speach" does and that the government is well within it's rights to legislation laws for banning or limiting certain types of weapons. It's the same for free speach, you know, the old "you can't yell fire in a crowed theatre" just for laughs.
Ozzie, I haven't the slightest idea how you can associte your remarks with either BECOMING-GALATIC or my own just above. Like myself, BC is trying to put an entirely different perspective on the debate. It's not about guns, it's about restoring compassion and respect to oneself as well as others. Hatred, anger, and violence accomplishes absolutely nothing other than the assertion of power of one over another.
Oh, dear. Am I limited to box cutters and explosives?
What about a super soaker like this one:
filled with gasoline, and a lighter?
Would that do damage in a classroom of second graders? Armed security guards could stop that from happening, I'll venture.
The bigger hospitals usually have armed personnel close-by, whether or not they're directly employed by the facility.
And hospitals are 'gun free zones'.
Sure he does. All I need is the money to make it all happen. Currently, there are about 250,000 people out there with fully legal-to-own machine guns.
SCOTUS has ruled that the Second Amendment is an individual right.
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Unsubstantiated.
People kill with all kinds of things. Fix that before you come for everyone's firearms.
It really is sad that the Obama Admin and the Left have yet again managed to take an issue that could have brought the country together and turned it into another divisive issue pitting the Left against the Right.
As a fellow U.S. citizen I am asking for your help. As a father and someone who would be devastated if my child or children in my community were killed needlessly, as so many others have been recently, I am asking for your help.
I am doing this because our leaders in Washington D.C. are failing to do what needs to be done, they are failing us. They spend all of their time in campaign mode. Trying to figure out how they can use every issue to their advantage and using every issue to keep the People divided. Using every issue to try and paint the other side as the bad guys to gain a political advantage.
Gun violence is not a Left issue and it is not a Right issue, it is everyone’s problem. Our communities are being devastated with gun violence, Mass shootings, Hostage situations etc. and all they do in Washington is worry about what Legislation they can get passed and how it will affect their party.
Our leaders are not leading.
We do not need Congress to act to make a difference on gun violence. We the People can act now and make a difference.
That is why I am asking for your Help.
If it saves just one life it’s worth it.
What I don’t understand is why Obama will go out on national television and call for everyone to act, to be on his side to pass Gun Control legislation, but he doesn’t go on national television to address the nation and ask for the peoples help to end gun Violence. Why won’t he come out and say to the nation that no matter what Congress passes it doesn’t work if the States and the people don’t help to make the country a safer place.
Isn’t this supposed to be a nation that was created by the people, of the People by the People and for the people, and our politicians serve us not the other way around?
Why doesn’t Obama go on national T.V. and say;
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We will look at what we can do to strengthen our gun laws to make sure guns are not ending up in the hands of criminals and the mentally ill but you do not have to wait to act. You have the power to reduce gun accidents and gun crime by acting now to learn proper gun safety and storage. We could be doing things now like instituting the Eddie Eagle Program to teach k-4th Graders simple gun Safety;
If you see a gun:
STOP!
Don't Touch.
Leave the Area.
Tell an Adult.
You could be going online and finding out the best way to secure your firearms for what makes sense for your situation.
We could be requiring conflict resolution teaching in school to teach our children how to resolve conflicts without resorting to violence. Isn’t that supposed to be part of the Safe Schools initiative so kids can feel safe at school and not bullied, etc?
You could be calling on your States and legislatures to Comply with the NICS system and report convicted criminals, people deemed mentally unstable, report people convicted of drug violations, etc.
If you are the victim of a robbery and your guns are stolen report them to the Police so that Law enforcement will know there out there and you are no longer liable if that gun is used in a crime.
If you have a gun that you no longer want sell it through a licensed firearms dealer that will perform a proper background check and make sure the person buying it has the right to own it, is a law abiding citizen, and is not a convicted felon etc.
There are many, many things that as Citizens of the United States you could be doing now to help curb gun violence in the U.S..
You don’t need to wait for Congress to act or an Executive Order for something to be done.
This country is found on the Principle that the people are intelligent and capable of determining for themselves how our government should work and what our laws should be. This country works when people are involved and taking responsibility for it. Ask yourself are you doing what you can to prevent gun violence or are you just waiting for the government to do something about it?
Here’s a website (website name) with information on what you can be doing now. It covers proper gun safety, safety rules you can teach your children when they see a gun, how to properly store weapons when they are not in use, etc.
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Why is it that ending gun violence is only a Legislative issue and what matters is what they can get passed and turned into law and not about citizens themselves taking a role in our society?
There are millions of legal gun owners and groups that would be more than happy to help make the country safer and help reduce gun violence. Lawful gun owners do not want guns in the hands of criminals and don’t like gun violence anymore than you do. They do not like seeing children killed by guns any more than you do.
Instead of attacking lawful gun ownership, trying to limit all of our rights and making Legal gun owners the scapegoats every time a psychopath with a gun kills a child, why aren’t you asking law abiding gun owners for help?
Sure DAVID, as if the Right Wing loons in Congress had the slightest intention or desire to be "brought together". That is LOL funny, you know that? This is a Republican Party so hell bent at destroying Obama and any legislation he proposes they they will even vote against IDEAS & LEGISLATION THAT THEY, REPUBLICANS HAD CREATED. When you have the Senate Minority Leader saying that his #1 goal is to defeat the president, you tell me where you're going to find common ground.
Sorry buddy, but this president is now a seasoned veteran and will not be nearly as gullible as he was in his first term, trying to make nice with a bunch of Nazi's. Why do you think that life long Republicans like Colin Powell for the first time supported a Democrat for president? Because he's a moderate and sees how insanely partisan the Right has become. Obama bent over backwards in his first 4 years trying to accomodate Republicans and all it got him was even more contempt from them. Look at what they did to one of their own, Chuck Hagel, a decorated combat vet (which very few Republicans are, most are pathetic Chicken Hawks) who they did everything in their power to tear apart because he had committed the unpardonable sin of working with a Democratic administration.
Thanks for making my point perfectly Ozzie. Your more concerned with making sure your side wins, attacking and vilifying the other side, than solving the problems.
No David, merely stating the facts. How about trying to rebutt the points I made with facts or is that hoping for too much??? The last Congress has already gone down in history as the least productive Congress of the modern era and we all know why that is indeed the case.
Republican congressional districts have been so blatantly gerrymandered that GOP congresspeople see no need to be centerist. Quite the contrary, they know that the only danger they face in a reelection race is not from a Democrat opposing them, but rather, being primaried by some loon on the Right who is even more conservative than they are. Therefore, their motivation is to be even more hard core Right Wing than they would ordinarily be and any sign of compromising with Obama would cause them to be summarily executed by their party elders. That's why your boy Willard lost the election. He and all the other nominees were falling all over each other to prove who was the most conservative which in turn made him unpalatable in the general election.
The only thing that the GOP wants to compromise on now is the matter of undocumenteds because they see the hand writing on the wall and know that if they keep alienating the Latino vote they will be a permanent minority party and I don't mean ethnically.
There is no point in debating with you Ozzie. No matter what anyone says its obvious that your Hatred of Republicans and bigotry blinds you.
David,
He & Tonywarvet or whatever it is today are the FAR Left Wing Loons that we need to keep an eye on just like some of these far Right loony survivalist. We have some of these far Left Idiots that spew their hatred for anyone past right of center. They have a lot in common with Bill Ayers & that type. Against guns but would probably bomb some place just to get their point across. Dangerous people, just waiting to be set off. You can see it in their rants.
Hey D, where were you, all of 2008? NEWSFLASH to D, the Republicans sole agenda was to make President Obama a 1 term president. And that, was the day after his inauguration. You see D, if you're going to write a novel, expressing what you believe to be a valid point. You must first address the truth. Your party of "NO", just says no! I'm shocked that the markets and housing are back up. The Repugs did nothing! Employment is much better than 2000-2008. Repugs did nada! Car Industry is #1. Repugs did diddly! Banks are better than 2000-2008 , mainly due to new regulations implemented by President Obama. The Repugs tried to do something, oh yeah, vote in Romney, who vowed to unregulate them. So we have "squat" again for the Repugs! They're batting 0, D!
Thats the problem with you sensitive types. Whenever people of the USA, tire of the unnecessary, vile, indecent and violent actions set upon the American people. We excercise our admendment right, and we speak out, "enough is enough!" And some worm, somewhere, slides from under his rock, thinking that he hears "take their guns" "take their guns!" Which is an untruth. Just like this last presidential campaign, the people spoke. And, we're speaking again. We are going to carry this matter out, with or without you. We're prepared to do it without you. So don't take the matter so personally, we're just tired of going to funerals! Keep your guns, hoard them away, stock your family, we don't give a damn! But let, the rest of USA, the majority, the rational, deal with the death out here on the streets. You are the minority now, you use to be the majority, now you're not, so feel how others felt for decades! Now you're losing, and you can't take it! Persons that are dying at the hands of these assault weapons, are'nt all being murdered by the sick, like you guys love to state. These weapons, are also dangerous in the hands of the sane, do you agree? Probably not, but it don't matter. Mr & Ms Minority, your time has passed, America's changing! Bye, Bye and good riddance!
Yes get rid of all our guns and invite the Taliban, Al Quida, Neonazis and the KKK to have tea with us. Oh do you think they will leave their guns home?
Also please take time to read this. Then make up your mind which is best for this country and your freedoms.
Changing the gun laws will do very little,what people are not acknowledging is that the kids brought up today are spoiled and have a sense of entitlement. They also are being brought up mostly latch key kids. And they just sit in front of monitors playing violent video games all day.Children have no discipline in their lives because all the parents are always feeling guilty.Kids are not taught manners nor are they taught right from wrong because so many parents are living in sin, that is what their kids learn.It is the Domino effect.They should have never ever taken GOD out of the classrooms.So needless to say most of the kids in today's world grow up the wrong way.Never will we have the Andy Griffith days back.
Have you ever heard the narrative, if I can reach just one person in my classroom today, or, if I can just save one soul in my church today, or if I can just touch any person with this inspiration? These words are spoken daily by teachers, preachers, mothers, fathers, grand parents, aunts, uncles, loved ones, strangers and other caring persons. So, I say, to each of you, who say, that changing guns will have not effect the violence that are being carried out at schools, malls, theaters, churches, work places and all other places, we use to think safe. If changing a law, saves or protects one life, is it worth it? When the life may be one of your loved ones, is it justified? Or should the law protect every human living being that it can? I say, if it only saves one life, do it, you never know that one life, someday, may be yours.
Here is the link I tried to post.
www.sudentsdaily.com/conservative-vs-liberal-beliefs/
This story is total bs as if a six year old wrote such a thing .what else will they try to get their way .if this makes the mom feel better great because she need to heal.but unbelievable complicated message for six year old just saying.
Lazy nor F off and smoke another one
This was a terrible, terrible tragedy, but come on. There is no way a six-year-old (even his "spirit") would choose the word "nurturing." Even the word "healing" is a little suspicious. My heart really goes out to the mom and brother, but there is more to this. I think she is delusional. Or downright deceptive. This message can be spread without bringing the supernatural into it.
Adam Lanza from Newtown (30 casualties, including Scarlett Lewis's 6 year-old son), James Holmes from Aurora (70), Nidal Hasan from Ft. Hood (43), Steven Kazmierczak from Northern Illinois University (27), Seung-Hui Cho from Virginia Tech (56), Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold from Columbine High (39), Kipland Kinkel from Thurston High (29), Dean Mellberg from Fairchild Air Force Base (28), George Hennard from Luby's massacre (44), Patrick Purdy from the Stockton schoolyard (35), James Huberty from San Ysidro McDonald's massacre (41).
Would universal background checks, with a mental health linkage, have stopped one of these? Two? Or maybe cut the massacre's casualties in half because one of these guys has a Glock instead of a TEC-9? We can't know for sure. It may not seem like much, but if it was your kid shot dead in one of these massacres, or a niece or nephew, I'll bet you wouldn't be standing in the way.
I did Not read this and refuse to read crap like this as news. :-/
Let's cut throught the chase, and get to the point, of why the GUN issue is at hand, once again. All of the people on this forum, has the right to express their opinions on the matter of guns. My nephew was killed in 2007, by a guy that was a member of his wedding. What, I mean is, he was in the wedding, with myself and others. He was shot by an assualt weapon. Many individuals saw the body, outside of bar in Pennsylvania. He was shot countless times. So, what I'm getting around to saying is this. Most of the individulas on this site, probably have never witnessed a 6-7 year old body, riddled with bullets, from an assault rifle, from close range. I have'nt myself, witnessed it, but if it's as devastating a sight, as my 27 year old nephews corspe, after taking 14+ bullets, I'd make a safe bet, that these same 2nd admendment fools, would change their minds on assault weapons. And for those, who say they won't, God help that you never have to witness a loved ones (especially under 8 or 9 years old) body at the morgue!
My heart breaks for this mother and I hope that I never know her sorrow but at the same time God help us in that until we can have nurturing and healing, we must have common sense and knowledge to know that from statistics that had one adult at that school had had a gun her child could poosibly be writing messages today. We need less feel good words and more action such as more adults able to carry guns for the protection of the innocent. And, please tell me what in God's Name was happening in this child's private life that he would need to be concerned with healing and nurturing? Those are words used by victims of abuse or terror or frightening things going on in their lives. A child of this age need not have to deal with the realities of life which involve the necessesity of healing and nurturing. At that age I was building tree houses, playing with dolls and heaven forbit playing cops and robbers. It is a sad commentary on our society that five and six year olds must be concerned with such as nurturing and healing! This mother needs to really look at the statistics of lives saved by guns (2000 per day) and think about all the nurturing and healing that are not neccessary in those cases because of the tragedies that were diverted!