The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary has clearly animated the country and emblematically raised our collective conscience to all human-on-human senseless violence--whether committed against innocent people or otherwise, whether in the classrooms of Sandy Hook, or at the theater in Colorado, or on the streets of Chicago.
As such, I think it is vital that we keep in mind that regardless of our respective political persuasions, we all deeply mourn the loss of the 26 victims and wish it had never happened and seriously want to prevent it from happening again if plausible. We are united in our broken hearts and desire for viable solutions. We all share the President's intent to take steps to protect and save our children.
Accordingly, it is in our interest to keep this issue from dividing us or being exploited for political advantage, but let it be a unifying cause in amicably finding pragmatic answers. We are in this ship of state together, and we can only effectively move forward in progress if we paddle with rather than against each other.
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