Buartha mo chroí

[ap_aelfwine]

This morning, at an elementary school on the other side of my town, not a very large town, there was a shooting. Twenty-seven people dead, or maybe twenty-six, I gather. Varying reports have been round all day--the initial story was that one person was dead, that being the gunman, and a teacher was injured

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[cucumberseed]

May God have mercy on us all. Sometimes I'm not sure we deserve it.

Amen.

[ap_aelfwine]

Yes. I've found out today that a friend of mine has lost her niece. I didn't realise her boss/friend/mentor was talking about _her_ because... well, I suppose I just couldn't believe it. I didn't know she'd family in my town.

The only good thing I can say is that we have a couple of cases of stunning heroism and self-sacrifice. That doesn't make it better, but... something. I can't find the words right now.

[madderbrad]

I have such admiration for the case of heroism that I read about, a teacher throwing herself in front of her students. I'm not sure if they survived; she didn't.

[ap_aelfwine]

I as well.

At least some of them survived. I don't know if all of them did. The stories are all still very confused.

[llynden]

I am so sorry :(

[ap_aelfwine]

Thank you.

[ptyx]

I'm sorry, friend.

[ap_aelfwine]

Thank you, my friend.

[pathology_doc]

Condolences.

[ap_aelfwine]

Thank you.

[madderbrad]

I'm so sorry this has happened so close to home.

Sometimes I'm not sure we deserve it.

Neither am I ... when no-one's going to do a damn thing about it. Okay, you *don't* deserve it, obviously, but still ... damn. Politicians afraid to move, to lead, for (legitimate) fear of losing their seats. Guns are so enshrined in your country a huge effort's going to be required to jump out of the rut, in my opinion. Just an outside observer.

[ap_aelfwine]

Thank you so much.

I have to admit I was more talking about the human race as a whole when I said "we".