<p>My second graders left for school today clutching a teddy bear and stuffed football dog excited for Stuffed Animal Day at school. I can’t get the imagine out of my head as tear roll down my eyes thinking of this tragic event.</p>
<p>This is so far beyond anything I can comprehend the only thing that comes to mind is terrorist attack. But I guess we will learn more as the day goes on.</p>
<p>OMG.
No words.</p>
<p>I expect we will find it is some sort of custody dispute rather than a terrorist attack.</p>
<p>It’s really things like this that make me terrified to be a parent. I’m going on lunch now just to call my own parents. I just can’t even imagine…</p>
<p>CBS reports that a student’s father was the shooter.</p>
<p>Fox News is saying 18 children killed.</p>
<p>I just turned the TV on and I’m stunned. My heart goes out to the families. This is insane.</p>
<p>I just read 27 dead including 18 children–horrifying :eek:</p>
<p>Beyond horrifying. 
My god, those poor parents and children.</p>
<p>This is sickening… cowardly by the shooter. All the kids do was go to school, as they should.</p>
<p>Prayers to the parents who have lost children, and all the students in general.</p>
<p>Senseless. Tragic. </p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>I read that the shooter was 20 years old.</p>
<p>Can’t imagine the grief.</p>
<p>News reporting the dead shooter was a 20 year old man wearing a bullet proof vest with ties to the school (whatever that means).</p>
<p>CBS News: A suspect is in police custody, Possibly Second Shooter–wearing camoflauge pants, black jacket, and reportedly leaving nearby wooded area in handcuffs.</p>
<p>whole kindergarten class unaccounted for</p>
<p>No no no no no no
Woods? Unaccounted for?</p>
<p>Please please please no</p>
<p>How do we stop this madness? Such evil among us.</p>
<p>This is unimaginable and horrific. I’m just sick.</p>
<p>Oh no. I was just volunteering yesterday in a kindergarten class at our local elementary and thinking how utterly precious the children are, so innocent and so pure and so full of promise. Unspeakable.</p>
<p>There are no words for such an unthinkable tragedy. My heart breaks for these children, teachers, and families.</p>
<p>How do we stop this madness? Incrementally… but I just started by sending a message to every single politician I gave money and time to in the last election cycle to let them know that I will not give another dime or minute to any candidate who does not actively put forward/cosponsor/push gun control AND mental health services legislation. For goodness sake, a woman can’t even get a birth control pill Rx in this country without an annual doctor’s appointment. How about if we make all gun owners have annual relicensing and a mental health check as well?</p>