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Kaliko -> RE: Connecticut shooting at elementary school (12/14/2012 3:41:34 PM)
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I can understand how someone from outside of the U.S. could not be quite so affected by this story. I know I've heard of story upon story of tragedies all over the world, to young and old, for years,...and I didn't cry all afternoon for those lost. While I agree that just because something can be said doesn't mean it should be said, ... I don't know that it's fair to jump all over someone just because that person has a distance that some of us don't have or feel.
I think the the "close to home" part is more metaphorical than geographical. It's hard for me to identify with a crowded school room in another country. I would certainly be sad for tragedies that happen, but it wouldn't rock my core like this one has. Here, it's more because so many of us have children, and we drop our children off at school - out of our hands - consider them safe - and it's the same for all of us. This could have just as easily been my town, your town, or any other town in America. It's all too easy to see that, to sense our vulnerability, when it's not happening "somewhere else."
While I am sad - so terribly sad - for these families, I will admit that my thought is of my own child, and my tears come when I imagine what her fear would have been. In that respect...it is much too close to home. But no, I don't expect everyone to feel that way and I think - short of more senseless tragedy - everyone's individual reaction is appropriate.
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