Thoughts About the Sandy Hook Murders

Image from CNN

Many thoughts have crossed my mind the last few days, since a murderous thug basically killed a classroom full of kids along with other teachers and staff.

My first thought was that we had several hero teachers, administrators and other staff at the school,, who died trying to protect the kids at the school.  They put the kids ahead of their family, their dreams, their upcoming school vacation, when they put themselves between the shooter and the little kids.  If I ever was put into that position, I would hope I would do the heroic thing by trying to take out the gunman before he kills innocent people.

Father Mychal  Judge was a chaplain of the FDNY (New York City Fire Department) and was the first person on the ground killed when planes attacked the Twin Towers on 9/11.  Many people have speculated that Father Judge died so that he can help the souls of the of the victims of 9/11 as they go into the after  life.  Well, the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary, Dawn Hochsprung, reminds me of Father Judge- sacrificing herself so the children killed will be comforted as they go onto Heaven.
From ABC News: Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung devoted her life to helping students as an educator.

In her final moments, Hochsprung, 47, reportedly gave her life Friday to save the lives of countless students and teachers when she sprung from a conference room at the sound of gunshots and confronted head-on the armed shooter who had barged into the school.

“When I learned that she actually tried to take the gunman down, it was no surprise to me at all,” Hochsprung’s cousin, Melanie Buhrmaster-Bunch, said today on “Good Morning America.”
“My only hope is that the gunman actually had a little bit of fear knowing this 5-foot-2-inch raging bull was coming at him, that he had a little bit of fear in his eyes that knowing that someone like Dawn was going to come after him because he was trying to hurt her students,” she said.  “She was so vibrant and so full of life and I want people to know that she was a hero.”  http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/12/principal-dawn-hochsprung-a-5-foot-2-inch-raging-bull-lifesaver/

And of course, President Obama, right off the bat, before the first funeral, decided to make the murders a political issue by trying to get gun reform passed.   The bozo has no shame.  There is a time and place for the debate but the moron Obama decided not to wait before the funerals ended to make his political statements.  And you wonder why sales of guns and ammunition have skyrocketed since Obama was elected.

Finally, it will not be a surprise to me if they find out that the killer had bad experiences at school, to the point that he had to be homeschooled.   A student who has disabilities can stay in school until the age of 22, so it makes me wonder what happened at school to make him home schooled and target Sandy Hook Elementary School.