When I first read and then later heard about the killings of the children and teachers in Connecticut, I tried to tune it out. The thought of children's lives just being instantly over for no good reason is too much to really too much to digest. It is the kind of thing that will never make sense.
Today I read the following story about some people who put the safety of the kids in front of thier own. They had to know they had little chance of stopping an armed gunman but they did it anyway.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/nyregion/gunman-kills-20-children-at-school-in-connecticut-28-dead-in-all.html?_r=0
The principal and another staff member at an elementary school in Connecticut had rushed a gunman who forced his way inside, an act of courage that cost both of them their lives, a school superintendent said on Saturday. In all, the gunman killed 26 people, 20 of them children, in the nation’s second-deadliest school shooting.
The principal, Dawn Hochsprung, 47, of Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, was running at the gunman “in order to protect her students” when she was shot, the superintendent, Janet Robinson, said. The school psychologist also tried to stop the gunman and was killed, Ms. Robinson told reporters in brief remarks outside the school.
“Teachers were really, really focused on saving their students,” she added.
At least the parents and other family members will be able to know that somebody actually cared enough to try and stop the guy.
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