Sean’s blog could not have been more appropriate or thoughtfully worded. Anyone who ever questions his spirituality doesn’t know the real thing when they see it.
Blessed are those who continue to fight for sensible gun control laws so that senseless tragedies don’t happen. We can ban books but not assault weapons??? God gave us common sense. We need to use it.
Nope. It is a God given right to protect oneself. It’s in the United States Constitution for a reason! Stay away from my Constitution. If those teachers would have been armed there would have been only one death and that was the demon that entered that school! Taking guns away from Law Abiding Citizens is a criminal act. 🙌🏻✝️
It does not give anyone the right to carry an automatic weapon. As a teacher for 38 years, I wouldn’t have wanted to be responsible for carrying a gun in my classroom. There’s a lot of movement and activity in today’s classrooms. It’s not a conducive setting for teachers with loaded guns. Teachers are nurturers, not killers. I wouldn’t want to face someone with an automatic or semiautomatic weapon.
Correct, not all teachers are meant to carry but the reason schools are targets by crazies is because they know there is no one to stop them! But then again, I don’t believe in public schools either because they have become indoctrination centers for our children. Homeschooling is the only way to go these days.
M Drake, teachers have enough on their plate nowadays trying to work with kids who have irresponsible parents. The last thing teachers need to be responsible for is trying to protect their classroom children with a gun. That is a job for the person who trains with gun experience enough to be connected to that process. That is not a job for the teacher. You people who are so down on teachers, it's just like you to try to saddle them with that responsibility of protecting, too.
Teachers are teachers, not armed bodyguards. Armed teachers is a ridiculous idea. Sensible gun control is definitely the way to go. And assault weapons should be banned. Period.
Are you sure this is the right time and place to pick that -- discussion? Sean wrote a poignant, moving, unbelievably touching tribute. Anyone's views on gun control is moot; to each their own, just like all the other Amendments to the Constitution. Is anyone going to change their mind. No. The world in which we live NOW mandates actions, mandates what is necessary, even if we don't like the necessity or the reasons for it.
Teachers went into that line of work, M Drake, because they have the gift of conveyance and are nurturers of young people. They are the total opposite of an idiot sicko shooting up a school of children and teachers. Those sickos are the worst cowards of any cowards.
If you believe public schools are indoctrination centers for children, you obviously haven’t stepped foot in a school in quite some time and are getting your hateful misinformation from the entertainment channel that masquerades as news and likes to stir the pot with as much hatefulness as possible. I feel sorry for anyone who has this narrow world view.
Texas made provisions, by law, several years ago to have some of their good teachers armed to protect both the students and the other teachers.
And I am with you on the Home & Private schooling, especially in the metro areas. Our smaller public ones out here in the hinterlands aren't so bad yet, because we have local school board members who have to answer to the people. We also have lots of Homeschooling around too, and the majority of those kids are far ahead of the public schooled ones.
We can debate all day about gun laws. It might surprise you to learn automatic rifles aren't easy for civilians to get. This murderer used a semi-automatic rifle not an automatic rifle. The rifle used in this tragedy looks like a military issue rifle and has a large magazine. The rifle isn't the issue. The real issue is mental disease. There are treatment solutions but we don't promote them. I feel it's due to our inability to confront people who politize it.
Common sense gun laws would take into account semiautomatic weapons and large magazines, too. It would address the problem of the mentally ill having such easy access to any type of weapons. Proponents of common sense gun laws have no intention of taking guns away from responsible gun owners, but what is happening nowadays is most assuredly NOT what our founding fathers intended when they wrote the Second Amendment. Don’t twist it for your sick ideals so that more children may die.
Excellent memorial for the sad, sad tragedy that took place that day, Sean. Yes, blessed be the children, teachers and staff who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, but blessed especially be the police officers who ran right into the line of fire to take out the mentally ill shooter, whose parents mourn still and probably feel guilt, even though they didn't commit the crime, their disturbed child did. May God bless all involved that day and take care of the souls that left their earthly existence that day. And comfort everyone who was impacted personally or sympathetically that day. With God's help, all can recover their lives, still remembering the horror of that day, but tempered with God's everyday blessings.
Thanks, Cindy. I truly would not be where I am if I hadn't relied, even leaned on God's help, protection and guidance! i journal every day and He gets thanked every day for everything he does for me.
I can’t imagine this pain. For whatever reason, unbeknownst to me, we are utterly and completely ignoring mental health in this country. Go to any bookstore and what’s the largest section? Mental health. I was walking through the little girls section of a clothing store and all I saw were little shirts and dresses that said “you are enough” or “be brave” or “shine your light”. We never had to walk around with statement reminders on our clothing as kids. Instead of spending money outside our own walls, perhaps we should be spending it inside. We need mental health facilities on every corner, not a Starbucks. Someone with no self worth isn’t going to suddenly find self worth if you take away guns. They simply move to the next destructive means. We aren’t treating the issue at all, just putting more bandages over abscesses. Youth are now being raised in an environment of words on pages rather than face to face interactions. Parents need to be so incredibly proactive in monitoring social media and keeping their kids grounded. It’s such a slippery slope. God Bless these families. 😞
I love that you closed with the Second Beatitude…”Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” But I love even more all the ones composed by you, Sean. For not knowing what to say, you said it all. Everything we felt then and everything we feel now. Very beautifully done, and very comforting to all of us who mourn. Thank you, Sean❣️ and God Bless You. ✝️
At its core the cause of every evil is hatred. Specific ideas are built into systems that help certain groups keep their power and accompanying wealth. Hatred stems from negative assumptions, images and beliefs about a certain group. All sides can be guilty. It fuels the pride of each group: each group’s identity is painted with broad strokes. We listen without thinking. More and more we are so consumed with abhorrence we wish to annihilate the other group.
Negative assumptions are accepted based upon a specific incident or person with little or no investigation of the group as a whole. All stereotypes are entirely false. Lies from the father of lies, in order to divide and conquer.
In times of crisis stereotypes become stronger and so the hatred. We’re seeing it played out today in cultural warfare. It is not political but spiritual warfare that we are in, make no mistake.
So true Dolores…we are battling powers and principalities. Frank Peretti’s books, This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness are such clear illustrations of the chaos that the enemy is wreaking.
Yes, tRump selling bibles is a hoot!! Guess he's gotta fool his sheep to pay for all his legal bills. Just guess who he's pandering to!! Lol. The weak of mind, the following sheep who believe everything that comes out of his evil pie-hole.
Yep, Sy Anne, He predicted he could shoot Santa Claus on 5th avenue and get away with it. We all know that to be true now, don't we! Look how He warned us with that statement! And look how His looney followers thought that was funny!
A gracious good morning and happy Thursday to all yall. Congratulations Sean not many people can make me growl before my second cup of coffee but yall managed to pull it off. When you baby sit kids with amoral games and videos. When you remove Christian values from a society that was founded on
Wait for it
CHRISTIAN VALUES. Now I'm not a Bible thumper but dang yall still can't figure this out ! Its not the weapon , its the diseased brain that controls the finger that pulls the trigger. I've read the constitution it says "the right to bear arms" not the right to bear an assault weapon. I've attended and taught more active shooter classes that Carters got liver pills and you have to accept the fact that we need a deterent not excuses for behavior. How many good women and men that are veterans would be willing to step up to protect our schools ? Congratulations yall have managed to pass me off even before I go to da barn ! Thanks loads. It ain't gonna be easy but I wish us all to have a little...
You said it, Ricaroo! My husband and I bought guns and took a 6 month course so as to be responsible gun owners (we lock em up when the grandkids are here). Stricter gun control laws are not going to stop someone with an agenda from getting their hands on a firearm…We have the right to protect ourselves.
That has to be a parent’s worse nightmare. We send our children to school on the hope and belief that they will be safe and loved there. And they are-until something like this happens and there’s no way to wrap our minds around it. It’s heartbreaking and my deepest sympathies go out to them all. There’s nothing anyone can say to help, but we can grieve with them. So sad.
Yo Shelly Mac ! I've been a firearms instructor for 20 years. One if the rules to remember is, its better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it. I've got a pocketful of old sayins. Yall have a hot chocolate mornin. Peace out
RicCy no matter where you stand politicall, the fact is there are 393 million firearms in civilian hands currently, and no matter how dopey it sounds, it's the truth "When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns." The fact is that in many places, especially rural areas there may only be one or two sheriff's deputies on call at night for the whole county, and if they're tied up the good meaning folks just gone be SOL as they say. And that's a fact. You say that would never happen, but it happens ever day. Like Pone's story. If you don't believe in self defense don't own a gun. PAX
And still there is no gun reform... Maybe if you rewrite this column for all the children still to be murdered, someone, somewhere will finally outlaw high peered guns.
Yes, and AMEN! My daughter teaches at a private Christian school, and my two oldest grands are students there. Until Nashville, I took false comfort in thinking it could never happen at a small, private Christian school. Until it did. May God bless all the teachers who keep showing up every day and loving their students, in spite of the ever-present danger of this happening again.
Thank you. There are OTHER venues for exercising "free speech" in terms of making devisive political, antireligious, and other hurtful comments. Sean's writings make us smile, laugh, cry...care, but they all uplift us; and reading them may be the most positive thing to happen in someone's day.
There aren’t enough “Blesseds….” when are hearts ache to the point of actual physical pain. We can offer only our heart’s moaning and groaning to God.
“I will raise my eyes to the mountains;
From where will my help come?
My help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.”
Psalm 121:1-2
Amen! Nailed it, Jan!
Sean’s blog could not have been more appropriate or thoughtfully worded. Anyone who ever questions his spirituality doesn’t know the real thing when they see it.
Blessed are those who continue to fight for sensible gun control laws so that senseless tragedies don’t happen. We can ban books but not assault weapons??? God gave us common sense. We need to use it.
Nope. It is a God given right to protect oneself. It’s in the United States Constitution for a reason! Stay away from my Constitution. If those teachers would have been armed there would have been only one death and that was the demon that entered that school! Taking guns away from Law Abiding Citizens is a criminal act. 🙌🏻✝️
It does not give anyone the right to carry an automatic weapon. As a teacher for 38 years, I wouldn’t have wanted to be responsible for carrying a gun in my classroom. There’s a lot of movement and activity in today’s classrooms. It’s not a conducive setting for teachers with loaded guns. Teachers are nurturers, not killers. I wouldn’t want to face someone with an automatic or semiautomatic weapon.
Correct, not all teachers are meant to carry but the reason schools are targets by crazies is because they know there is no one to stop them! But then again, I don’t believe in public schools either because they have become indoctrination centers for our children. Homeschooling is the only way to go these days.
M Drake, teachers have enough on their plate nowadays trying to work with kids who have irresponsible parents. The last thing teachers need to be responsible for is trying to protect their classroom children with a gun. That is a job for the person who trains with gun experience enough to be connected to that process. That is not a job for the teacher. You people who are so down on teachers, it's just like you to try to saddle them with that responsibility of protecting, too.
Teachers are teachers, not armed bodyguards. Armed teachers is a ridiculous idea. Sensible gun control is definitely the way to go. And assault weapons should be banned. Period.
Where are more men like you, Brian?! You are way more macho than any gun toten redneck in my book. ❣️WOOHOO
Are you sure this is the right time and place to pick that -- discussion? Sean wrote a poignant, moving, unbelievably touching tribute. Anyone's views on gun control is moot; to each their own, just like all the other Amendments to the Constitution. Is anyone going to change their mind. No. The world in which we live NOW mandates actions, mandates what is necessary, even if we don't like the necessity or the reasons for it.
So right!
Arming teachers is ridiculous.
It’s just another tactic used to sidetrack the real problem.
Maybe another line of work would be better. Peace.
Teachers went into that line of work, M Drake, because they have the gift of conveyance and are nurturers of young people. They are the total opposite of an idiot sicko shooting up a school of children and teachers. Those sickos are the worst cowards of any cowards.
M Drake, you don't fool me. You don't stand for peace.
If you believe public schools are indoctrination centers for children, you obviously haven’t stepped foot in a school in quite some time and are getting your hateful misinformation from the entertainment channel that masquerades as news and likes to stir the pot with as much hatefulness as possible. I feel sorry for anyone who has this narrow world view.
That channel has contributed to the downfall of this country.
People sitting in their recliners, eyes glued to the screen, watching these presenters spew hate and lies. And buying it all.
Talk about indoctrination!
I’ve seen the mindlessness is many.
It has certainly contributed to the decline in critical thinking skills!
Ignorance on full display once again!
Nothing more to say here. Like arguing with a brick wall.
True that!
Brain dead.
Unfortunately, Brian, these people have no critical thinking skills. Or else they would see they are being misled.
Texas made provisions, by law, several years ago to have some of their good teachers armed to protect both the students and the other teachers.
And I am with you on the Home & Private schooling, especially in the metro areas. Our smaller public ones out here in the hinterlands aren't so bad yet, because we have local school board members who have to answer to the people. We also have lots of Homeschooling around too, and the majority of those kids are far ahead of the public schooled ones.
No one wants to take away “your” guns.
(And by the way, you can’t cherry pick the Constitution.)
Sensible regulation is the key.
Your comments, Madame Drake, smack of talking points garnered from a certain entertainment outlet that masquerades as news.
Why desecrate Sean’s heartfelt words with your right-wing narcissistic ranting?
M Drake, the FBI is not coming to take your guns away, they're coming to take YOU away.
Amen, Sharon. People who own guns are not responsible gun owners if they don't believe in common sense gun laws.
We can debate all day about gun laws. It might surprise you to learn automatic rifles aren't easy for civilians to get. This murderer used a semi-automatic rifle not an automatic rifle. The rifle used in this tragedy looks like a military issue rifle and has a large magazine. The rifle isn't the issue. The real issue is mental disease. There are treatment solutions but we don't promote them. I feel it's due to our inability to confront people who politize it.
Common sense gun laws would take into account semiautomatic weapons and large magazines, too. It would address the problem of the mentally ill having such easy access to any type of weapons. Proponents of common sense gun laws have no intention of taking guns away from responsible gun owners, but what is happening nowadays is most assuredly NOT what our founding fathers intended when they wrote the Second Amendment. Don’t twist it for your sick ideals so that more children may die.
Funny how this “mental illness” hits mistake white, Christian males, isn’t it?
And before you argue that — I said mostly.
Ya, the macho "Christian" types, mostly cowards who hide behind their religion and guns.
Excellent memorial for the sad, sad tragedy that took place that day, Sean. Yes, blessed be the children, teachers and staff who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, but blessed especially be the police officers who ran right into the line of fire to take out the mentally ill shooter, whose parents mourn still and probably feel guilt, even though they didn't commit the crime, their disturbed child did. May God bless all involved that day and take care of the souls that left their earthly existence that day. And comfort everyone who was impacted personally or sympathetically that day. With God's help, all can recover their lives, still remembering the horror of that day, but tempered with God's everyday blessings.
Heartfelt……truly, recovering will be with God’s help.
Thanks, Cindy. I truly would not be where I am if I hadn't relied, even leaned on God's help, protection and guidance! i journal every day and He gets thanked every day for everything he does for me.
I can’t imagine this pain. For whatever reason, unbeknownst to me, we are utterly and completely ignoring mental health in this country. Go to any bookstore and what’s the largest section? Mental health. I was walking through the little girls section of a clothing store and all I saw were little shirts and dresses that said “you are enough” or “be brave” or “shine your light”. We never had to walk around with statement reminders on our clothing as kids. Instead of spending money outside our own walls, perhaps we should be spending it inside. We need mental health facilities on every corner, not a Starbucks. Someone with no self worth isn’t going to suddenly find self worth if you take away guns. They simply move to the next destructive means. We aren’t treating the issue at all, just putting more bandages over abscesses. Youth are now being raised in an environment of words on pages rather than face to face interactions. Parents need to be so incredibly proactive in monitoring social media and keeping their kids grounded. It’s such a slippery slope. God Bless these families. 😞
Mental illness is not unique to the USA, but look …
100 percent agree with you, Lori.
Truth be told…..here it is!
I love that you closed with the Second Beatitude…”Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” But I love even more all the ones composed by you, Sean. For not knowing what to say, you said it all. Everything we felt then and everything we feel now. Very beautifully done, and very comforting to all of us who mourn. Thank you, Sean❣️ and God Bless You. ✝️
At its core the cause of every evil is hatred. Specific ideas are built into systems that help certain groups keep their power and accompanying wealth. Hatred stems from negative assumptions, images and beliefs about a certain group. All sides can be guilty. It fuels the pride of each group: each group’s identity is painted with broad strokes. We listen without thinking. More and more we are so consumed with abhorrence we wish to annihilate the other group.
Negative assumptions are accepted based upon a specific incident or person with little or no investigation of the group as a whole. All stereotypes are entirely false. Lies from the father of lies, in order to divide and conquer.
In times of crisis stereotypes become stronger and so the hatred. We’re seeing it played out today in cultural warfare. It is not political but spiritual warfare that we are in, make no mistake.
So true Dolores…we are battling powers and principalities. Frank Peretti’s books, This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness are such clear illustrations of the chaos that the enemy is wreaking.
I keep thinking, why do people not see this evil one?
And what would be the most heinous act he could commit that might wake up his followers?
Co-opting the Word of God to line his pockets, perhaps?
Yes, tRump selling bibles is a hoot!! Guess he's gotta fool his sheep to pay for all his legal bills. Just guess who he's pandering to!! Lol. The weak of mind, the following sheep who believe everything that comes out of his evil pie-hole.
Profits from the prophets.
What would Satan do?
Yep, Sy Anne, He predicted he could shoot Santa Claus on 5th avenue and get away with it. We all know that to be true now, don't we! Look how He warned us with that statement! And look how His looney followers thought that was funny!
Yep, it was a painful tragedy 😢. Thanks for sharing, you said it all Sean D. God bless you and All.
Sean, you always get to the heart of the matter. You say it exactly right. ❤️
A gracious good morning and happy Thursday to all yall. Congratulations Sean not many people can make me growl before my second cup of coffee but yall managed to pull it off. When you baby sit kids with amoral games and videos. When you remove Christian values from a society that was founded on
Wait for it
CHRISTIAN VALUES. Now I'm not a Bible thumper but dang yall still can't figure this out ! Its not the weapon , its the diseased brain that controls the finger that pulls the trigger. I've read the constitution it says "the right to bear arms" not the right to bear an assault weapon. I've attended and taught more active shooter classes that Carters got liver pills and you have to accept the fact that we need a deterent not excuses for behavior. How many good women and men that are veterans would be willing to step up to protect our schools ? Congratulations yall have managed to pass me off even before I go to da barn ! Thanks loads. It ain't gonna be easy but I wish us all to have a little...
Peace
You said it, Ricaroo! My husband and I bought guns and took a 6 month course so as to be responsible gun owners (we lock em up when the grandkids are here). Stricter gun control laws are not going to stop someone with an agenda from getting their hands on a firearm…We have the right to protect ourselves.
Ric, u r right. There's NO GOOD reason to own an automatic weapon, unless ur a macho ass.... with nefarious reasons. Grow up, people.
Amen!
Christian nationalists are part of the problem in this country.
This country is not a Christian nation!
There is freedom of religion, as well as freedom from religion.
Our forefathers believed in separation of church and state for good reason.
And now we have a Presidential candidate comparing himself to Jesus.
Profiting from the sales of God’s Word.
What could be more telling?
This confluence of Christian nationalism and a politician with a Messiah complex is disastrous.
“Thou shalt not have false gods before me.”
It always works when you quote our Savior.
That has to be a parent’s worse nightmare. We send our children to school on the hope and belief that they will be safe and loved there. And they are-until something like this happens and there’s no way to wrap our minds around it. It’s heartbreaking and my deepest sympathies go out to them all. There’s nothing anyone can say to help, but we can grieve with them. So sad.
Yo Shelly Mac ! I've been a firearms instructor for 20 years. One if the rules to remember is, its better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it. I've got a pocketful of old sayins. Yall have a hot chocolate mornin. Peace out
RicCy no matter where you stand politicall, the fact is there are 393 million firearms in civilian hands currently, and no matter how dopey it sounds, it's the truth "When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns." The fact is that in many places, especially rural areas there may only be one or two sheriff's deputies on call at night for the whole county, and if they're tied up the good meaning folks just gone be SOL as they say. And that's a fact. You say that would never happen, but it happens ever day. Like Pone's story. If you don't believe in self defense don't own a gun. PAX
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My rule as well! Thank you Mr. Ric.
And still there is no gun reform... Maybe if you rewrite this column for all the children still to be murdered, someone, somewhere will finally outlaw high peered guns.
Yes, and AMEN! My daughter teaches at a private Christian school, and my two oldest grands are students there. Until Nashville, I took false comfort in thinking it could never happen at a small, private Christian school. Until it did. May God bless all the teachers who keep showing up every day and loving their students, in spite of the ever-present danger of this happening again.
I'm amazed how many dopes are classless enough to read this and then make a political comment.
Thank you. There are OTHER venues for exercising "free speech" in terms of making devisive political, antireligious, and other hurtful comments. Sean's writings make us smile, laugh, cry...care, but they all uplift us; and reading them may be the most positive thing to happen in someone's day.