SANDY HOOK MASS SHOOTING-8th ANNIVERSARY

TODAY Monday, December 14, 2020 marks the 8th anniversary of the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Flags in the state are flying at half-staff.

On December 14, 2012, a shooter opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary school, killing 20 first-graders and six educators in one of the deadliest mass shootings in United States history.

When little children are murdered because of the lack of gun control in the U.S. and nothing was done, it showed how little our country and its citizens care about the value of a human life. In this case, innocent young children are dead forever and nothing has changed about gun control. The u.s is a sick country and values it's guns way more than 6 year old youngsters who are gunned down in their school.

"The memories of the 20 young children and six educators whose lives were tragically taken on that horrible morning eight years ago will forever remain in our hearts," 

Our hearts are heavy today as we mark eight years since 20 beautiful children - Charlotte, Daniel, Olivia, Josephine, Ana, Dylan, Madeleine, Catherine, Chase, Jesse, James, Grace, Emilie, Jack, Noah, Caroline, Jessica, Benjamin, Avielle, and Allison - and six courageous adults - Dawn, Mary, Vicki, Lauren, Rachel, and Anne Marie - were taken from us all too soon.

To the grandparents, parents, siblings, children, spouses, and broken hearts of the Sandy Hook victims there will never be justice, never be peace. No matter how long it's been, every time you think about it, you relive it as though you just heard the news. Eight years later, I know the pain never goes away for the lives of your loved ones that were murdered and their dreams, aspirations, and futures that will never be. They are gone forever and you will never see them again, never touch them again. Their young lives snuffed out before they had a chance to live and flourish.

HERE ARE THE FACES OF THESE CHILDREN and EDUCATORS in good times IN THE VIDEO AT THE LINK BELOW. EVERYONE should view it and see the beautiful faces of these children when they were alive. Remember them as precious little children, human beings, and not a statistic.

WATCH this VIDEO, LOOK THEM IN THEIR EYES AND REMEMBER THEM!

COVID DEATHS ARE BEING NORMALIZED

ACROSS AMERICA,the horrific daily statistics about Covid are so mind numbing that many people have become numb to the true meaning of how many lives are lost to Covid each day. People tend to block out it's meaning and the lives lost become "normalized" as it is too overwhelming to truly understand.

Putting this painful truth in perspective:

During the time you were putting in an eight-hour shift at work earlier this week, more than 930 Americans were killed by the coronavirus.

The final virus death toll reported in the United States on Wednesday was 2,798. That equates to just under two deaths per minute, about one every 30 seconds. Nine hundred thirty-two over the course of eight hours.

In the time it took you to take that 10-minute shower, another almost 20 people were dead of the virus. Then almost another four during the two minutes you spent brushing your teeth before bed.

That day it took the virus 23 minutes to kill almost as many people as the wildfires throughout the western United States have all year, and about 30 minutes to kill about as many people as the gunman in the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest mass shooting in United States history."