Friday, December 14, 2012 marked one of the worst tragedies America has ever seen.  The sickness that pervaded into Sandy Hook elementary school and brutally murdered 20 beautiful children and 6 brave adults is more than just shocking. America lost its innocence again on Friday for the first time, I believe, since 9/11. But something about the way several people are responding isn’t quite right.

It seems that instead of mourning with the Sandy Hook families and offering sincerest condolences, certain government workers are deciding to use this devastating, heart-wrenching catastrophe as a political boat for their selfish notions and ideas. Now, it could be somewhat normal for our corrupt government system of today to be so arrogantly heartless, but can we in any way, shape, or form say that it is normal for our citizens to now be so callous? I wouldn’t have thought so until this massacre happened.

It was as if as soon as the first press broke about the carnage people suddenly, and oh so cold-heartedly, changed the subject from the tragedy unfolding before our eyes to a political campaign to take away a constitutional right. I want to know who in the world gave those insensitive know-it-alls the right to brazenly turn 26 families’ worst nightmare into contretemps over gun control. I want to who gave them the right to wreak even more havoc on an already forlorn, sorrowful nation that had just watched their American brothers’ and sisters’ grieve.

Sure, gun control is an obvious issue in this situation. But it is neither the time nor the place at this present moment for such secular disputes. While the families of America are stepping back and observing the immense sadness of this situation, the beasts of this nation are using another’s heartache and grief to magnify their personal desires.

Look at the faces of those precious, innocent, angels and think about them and their families; think about giving them the chance to grieve. Look at the family of Adam Lanza and think about the kind of stress and the heartache they feel. Think of the 6 fearless and heroic faculty who laid down their life for the safety of America’s young generation, think of their families.

Forget politics, for heaven’s sake, and if you don’t believe in heaven, forget politics for those children and adults’ sakes.

Somebody has to say it.