Shooting at Connecticut Elementary School

Of course it's a sad day. Kids getting shot in the US, kids getting stabbed in China, and then what?

What happens now? Same thing as every time a tragedy happens, we think about it for a couple of hours or days, or until the media stops caring about this event; unless it hits close to home or gets turned into a national "holiday". We show that we care, we express our empathy to those affected, suddenly our memory is flooded with similar events from the past. We spit in the face of humanity and wonder how the hell did we get to this point. And then we forget about it and nothing happens after that. Hitting the restart button in a couple of months.

Nonetheless, rest in peace to everyone, not just these kids and teachers, who had their lives and futures taken away from them today.

Those who never learn from history are condemned to repeat it and yet we still don't have the perfect answers. Still, I hold that as much as we hold the key to our salvation we also hold in our hands the key to destruction.