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[aroraborealis]

My heart is broken for Connecticut, and for the friends and family most directly harmed there. I'm just sitting at my desk crying, can't believe we do this to each other.

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[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

The idea that someone would decide to shoot a child fills me with terrified bewilderment.

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't ... really ...

But I actually feel that way about any of these shootings. An elementary school is certainly more horrifying and heartwrenching, but a mall or movie theater is already well into the realm of something way outside my grasp.

I can understand someone getting to a personal crime of revenge or similar -- that's a combination of damage, sickness and lack of perspective. But this kind of random and mass killing seems to have stepped outside of human thought or action entirely.

[catness.livejournal.com]

I think that people who commit mass shootings are ones who believe for some reason that they are not getting enough notice. And they believe, also, that getting that notice is more important than the very lives of their victims and victims' families.

A lot of folks want to ascribe that to mental illness, but I personally don't believe it's that. I think it's just complete and utter lack of empathy.

[arachne8x.livejournal.com]

Yes. Love to you. There is so much to feel right now.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I'm still kind of stuck here, too. I just... just don't get it.

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

Yes. This.