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My prayers are definitely with them.

My question is, why nowadays are people resorting to such unspeakable crimes? I know we shouldn't play the "blame game" and there are reasons like:

~lack of discipline
~background of being raised/home life
~lack of religion in schools and taken out of the school pledge
~loss of someone
~revenge
~younger generations exploited to graphic knowledge

The list goes on of the possibilities. But, even so, I don't understand why they resort to it, even if they think they have a reason, they don't. And, why can't these people get help? The world can be a cruel place.

I can only say I can sympathize with them in a similar situation. A girl brought a handheld gun to our elementary school and left it in the parking lot. She told everyone before she did it that she would do it, and did. A 4th grader, at the time I was a 4th grader too. The whole school was on lockdown the whole day and the principal and vice prinicipal were fired. The girl even went to the newspaper over it. We were lucky there wasn't a shooting that day, but that fear, and those poor children exposed to that violence are surely traumatized for those who survived and saw. For the families I can only pray their healing especially at this time of year. And for those who have passed, I can only pray a quick, painless, and peaceful passing to be welcomed by God's open arms.

God bless.

I'll be praying about this, too. I heard about through my catechist's wife earlier today. It's so sad, but we need to have hope, especially for those closely involved with the children (parents, friends, relatives) who might not have any right now.

As well, do not give into anger over this. My Facebook page is being sprinkled by lots of murderous hatred over the young man who killed these children, and that is not how we should respond to the situation. While what this man did was incredibly sinful, we need to focus on those who have been hurt; we need to pray to God for those who died, and give love to those who've lost.

God bless.

Let's also pray for the 22 children injured by a man stabbing people in a school in China.

What is wrong with the world? I am a high school student and I am scared that this kind of thing will happen to me, or my school, or my friends school. I think school's should be rebuilt so you must enter through the office and there are no other unlocked entrances. I pray for those lost and I also pray that the world will do something to protect students, grade school and college. I heard about the shooting from my bus-driver after school Friday and it broke my heart, I would be dead on the inside if I lost my little cousins who are only 7, my nieces who I have not had a chance to meet yet, my baby nephew who is not even in school yet. My heart goes out to those who have lost people like my family.

We need to pray for Adam Lanza as well. God only knows the pain he went through due to his mental illness. And we need to pray for forgiveness and reconciliation between the family of the killer and the children who were killed.