And the angels cried

The sadness of the massacre in Connecticut overshadows anything anyone can say today. We are all left speechless. And somehow it's that much worse when we are within 10 days of Christmas Eve... This morning as I was going through my busy Friday, the report came over my phone as a Drudge newsflash. Soon, it was all over Facebook and email flash reports. And in this day of instant news, all the media were fighting to see who could get the information out the quickest. I got on a group message with my son and ex, both in Austin and both unemployed, so both had access to television coverage. And both were sickened by what they were seeing. My son's girlfriend was off today, so she immediately went to who they thought was the shooter, Ryan Lanza's Facebook page, as did my coworker. Facebook shut it down while both people I knew were looking at it. THAT'S how fast this day of information is.
Three years ago two children from our small town that we knew well died within a few months of each other. One of a freak stroke and the other a car accident. On both children, it was on Facebook before some of the family even knew. People who had been called by telephone, and posted before they should have. Then family members had to find out from friends who saw it on Facebook...
The news said that Ryan (brother of the shooter) heard on the media that he was the suspect, and called to say it was not him, and he had been at work all day. The shooter was his brother Adam, a mentally disturbed young man with high-functioning autism called Aspergers. I'm familiar with it because I have a coworker who's 17 year old son has it as well. He is extremely intelligent but socially as off as one can get. DD and I looked at each other and said we could easily imagine the guy we know with Aspergers doing something like this. He's so angry at the world, since he's smart enough to know how off he is. It's tragic. They become so bitter, that they take it out on the ones they love and strangers.
Sigh.
Blame has already started before these children are even buried. Blame on the guns. Blame that God has been removed from school. Blame on school security measures. You name it. But evidently this is our new norm. They said there have been FORTY PLUS school shootings since Columbine.
Heaven help us...