[Don Jones]

All since prayer removed from our schools. Point made.

Really? That correlation does not point to causation. This is not at all convincing. That's like saying "since prayer was removed from our schools, the American manufacturing sector began its precipitous decline."

Respectfully.

Here’s another angle. Most of the murdered at Sandy Hook were female. All murdered adults were women. Most of the children murdered just happened to be girls. But consider this, women are identified with young children, with spending more time with children than most men do. Whatever the perverted motives for murdering first grade school children at an elementary school, the fact remains that this is a brutish example of more violence against women and those precious beings which are most readily identified with them: children.

School massacres are all the rage these days but an elementary school is a fairly woman-dominated place and this particular killing field of young children is the kind of venue that shows a deep line has now been crossed in the U.S. In war, this would be called a war crime. Whatever happened to good ol' fashion bank robbery? I mean, at least with bank robbers you can kinda see the motive. Yes, stealing is wrong but, murdering children?

Let’s also not forget that the murderer first committed matricide. I don’t care how bad your mother is, you don’t kill her! How can you kill your mother? After killing your mother it’s easy to kill little children. Case closed. Hatred of women and children is nothing new. An elementary school is the perfect place to execute that hatred.

Indeed, this heinous crime is another indication of women under assault – regardless, yet again, of the to-be-revealed individual and perverse motives of the murderer.

May I say, though, that it was women who demonstrated the highest public virtue and honor let alone a courage I find staggering: the principal and psychologist who confronted the assailant to stop him and the one who hid her children and faced the killer alone. These three women are now dead. A first grade teacher, who survived, kept telling her students when they were hiding out that she loved them so much; she wanted those words to be the last thing they heard were they to die.

These women are towering humans and my heart aches for them as well as the parents and families. But make no mistake, these women, the ones who died while staring death and evil in the face, and the ones who lived, are nothing less than heroes. In this case I sacrifice the feminine form of this word. They are superior beings to many, many men, especially that execrable mommy-killer, who exemplified the very worst among men.

Don