tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post8961871976910024430..comments2024-03-29T05:08:30.047-04:00Comments on The Heath Post: The WorstGoHeathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122010542579322600noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-54354374639533078892016-06-15T07:24:00.306-04:002016-06-15T07:24:00.306-04:00I hear you.I hear you.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-28486541388031078142015-06-22T19:56:47.876-04:002015-06-22T19:56:47.876-04:00The one I still think about all the time is the sh...The one I still think about all the time is the shooting at Heath. For me Heath was a second home in many ways for the four years I was there and it is still hard for me to believe that something so horrific happened there. I can still remember seeing that my school was on the front page of USA Today and learning that that is not a good thing. <br /><br />I would imagine for you this one hits so close to home in part because you are so involved at church and in part because you are married to a minister. Certainly we think of church as being a safe place in our country, and the fact that someone could violate something like that with such cruelty is hard to imagine. <br /><br />I wish I had answers to any of your questions. I think we all wish we had answers, but alas we all sit and watch these tragedies happen again and again and we essentially do nothing to prevent them. The Onion has this one nailed with the headline "'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" <br /><br />As long as there is such a strong group of people who refuse to even think about any kind of change, I assume these tragedies will continue to happen over and over and over again.<br /><br />There was a time when tragedies would trigger some sort of response, but when a mentally ill person walks into a school of children and begins to gun them down and this produces no result, I'm afraid nothing will. Matthew Vaughnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10349035708120354682noreply@blogger.com