Let Us Pray....

Holy Father, your holy presence and gracious healing hand please be with so many in this community and nation who are so broken this night. Comfort and strengthen the first responders, the pastors, the school administrators and teachers who will be your physical presence in this community. Receive into your care the innocent who are victims of this tragedy. Let each of us learn how our words and actions impact others and how we might be a voice of love in the ears of those who might think in violent ways. As Christmas approaches let us keep these families in our prayers. Amen.

It’s difficult to imagine the loss and pain felt by so many families tonight.

Hug your family members and tell them you love them. Say it often.

Once when I was a child, an elderly nun told me that when a child dies they go straight to Heaven.

I have carried those words with me my whole life.

God bless you and your family. Pray for the families of Newtown, Connecticut.

Kindergarten Killer – ABC Report: Sandy Hook Shooter Adam Lanza Had Asperger Syndrome And Another “Personality Disorder”

[liberal/progressive policies and ] public efforts to transform the mental health care system to be more humane, to characterize mentally ill people as “Just thinking differently”, and characterizing mental health care as some form of evil, we now have a system that makes it virtually impossible to get folks like Lanza the care they need.
Deinstitutionalization policies driven by “do good” liberals and the federal government put focus on limited bad acts. Kesey wrote a story based on his LSD induced observations in one VA mental hospital. [One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest]   Once his story was put into film, his small example falsely characterized the bulk of mental health care as dehumanizing and made it impossible to force the Lanza’s of the world to get treatment.
 
According to ABC News, Ryan Lanza, the older brother of 20-year-old Connecticut school massacre perpetrator Adam Lanza, has told police that his brother has Asperger Syndrome and another “personality disorder.” ABC News reports:  Neighbors described the younger man to ABC as “odd” and displaying characteristics associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Two handguns, a Sig Sauer and a Glock semi automatic were used in the shooting, the .223 Bushmaster never left the car.  He was 20 years old and therefore in CT not eligible to purchase a gun – So a gun ban wouldn’t have stopped this one. 

CNN REPORTS - A law enforcement official familiar with the investigation says the three guns found at the shooting site were legally purchased by Nancy Lanza, the mother of the suspect in the shooting.