It's Time For a Rant.....

Parents in mourning outside the school

I wasn't wanting to talk about the recent school shooting in Connecticut, but I feel that some rumors, and the behavior of people recently needs to be addressed on this blog.

First of all, the people using this tragedy to further their beliefs make me highly uncomfortable. I don't care if you are pro-gun ownership or hate guns with a passion, I think it's inappropriate to use a situation like this to further your political beliefs. It feels to me like people are too eager to exploit these tragic deaths to make a point, and I think it's not right.


People have even been trying to use this tragedy to further their religious beliefs, like politician turned commentator Mike Huckabee. He blamed the shooting on separation of church and state. There have also been fundamentalists on social media repeating arguments along the same lines.

I'll admit, I have been sucked into the debates myself, and in fact, as I am typing this, I'm in the middle a of discussion on the very topic of gun ownership. I just wish that people wouldn't have started the discussions in the first place, at least not so soon after the killings. It shows a complete lack of respect for those who died, almost is if they are using their deaths for their own personal political benefit.