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Here's a real life rebuttal to the ABC 20/20 piece "If I Only Had a Gun..."
http://www.catholicvirginian.org/archive/2009/2009vol84iss26/pages/letters.html
Mother sympathizes with shooting victim
As a mother, I was deeply touched by your guest commentary by Lori Haas (Sept. 21 issue).
My two sons (both engineers) applied to Virginia Tech and were accepted. I wept when I realized that had they not made different choices, both could have been in the Engineering building that horrible morning.
One of my son’s best friends did lose his friend. I cannot imagine the pain of the parents whose children were killed or wounded, and I keep them in my prayers.
Gun violence is right outside my front door. I have been asked to go back inside my house by a police officer carrying a shotgun. He was crossing my front yard to apprehend an armed robber two houses away.
In the middle of the street less than one-tenth of a mile from my home, my neighbor was shot to death by her estranged husband who was an off duty deputy sheriff.
Thank God, he was kept at bay by my armed neighbors until the police arrived. The police had to shoot and kill the deputy to prevent him from killing anyone else. (Emphasis added)
As a substitute school nurse in a middle school, I met a student I recognized as troubled. I attempted to draw him into conversation, but in a first encounter where he knew I would be somewhere else the next day, it was difficult to establish much of a relationship.
He was referred to one of the school administrators who seemed familiar with him. Later I read in the newspaper that he shot a man and was the youngest person ever arrested in Newport News for murder.
There are no easy answers. New York City has very restrictive gun laws and high gun violence rates. I do not believe more laws are the answer, but that we as Christians need to be constantly aware of those we encounter and try to address needs before they escalate into violence.
The mental health needs of the young gunman at Virginia Tech were missed on far more than one occasion. I wonder if I could have done more to help that 13-year-old student and pray that I did all that was possible.
Students on campus are not allowed to have weapons. Even one death is too many, but as a mother, I wonder if there would have been 32 deaths at Tech if someone other than Cho Sun Weh were also armed.
Here's a real life rebuttal to the ABC 20/20 piece "If I Only Had a Gun..."
http://www.catholicvirginian.org/archive/2009/2009vol84iss26/pages/letters.html
Mother sympathizes with shooting victim
As a mother, I was deeply touched by your guest commentary by Lori Haas (Sept. 21 issue).
My two sons (both engineers) applied to Virginia Tech and were accepted. I wept when I realized that had they not made different choices, both could have been in the Engineering building that horrible morning.
One of my son’s best friends did lose his friend. I cannot imagine the pain of the parents whose children were killed or wounded, and I keep them in my prayers.
Gun violence is right outside my front door. I have been asked to go back inside my house by a police officer carrying a shotgun. He was crossing my front yard to apprehend an armed robber two houses away.
In the middle of the street less than one-tenth of a mile from my home, my neighbor was shot to death by her estranged husband who was an off duty deputy sheriff.
Thank God, he was kept at bay by my armed neighbors until the police arrived. The police had to shoot and kill the deputy to prevent him from killing anyone else. (Emphasis added)
As a substitute school nurse in a middle school, I met a student I recognized as troubled. I attempted to draw him into conversation, but in a first encounter where he knew I would be somewhere else the next day, it was difficult to establish much of a relationship.
He was referred to one of the school administrators who seemed familiar with him. Later I read in the newspaper that he shot a man and was the youngest person ever arrested in Newport News for murder.
There are no easy answers. New York City has very restrictive gun laws and high gun violence rates. I do not believe more laws are the answer, but that we as Christians need to be constantly aware of those we encounter and try to address needs before they escalate into violence.
The mental health needs of the young gunman at Virginia Tech were missed on far more than one occasion. I wonder if I could have done more to help that 13-year-old student and pray that I did all that was possible.
Students on campus are not allowed to have weapons. Even one death is too many, but as a mother, I wonder if there would have been 32 deaths at Tech if someone other than Cho Sun Weh were also armed.
