If you were anticipating the approach of the Mayan Apocalypse, or just looking for signs it was on schedule for the 21st of this December; then you would have seen and heard hard evidence in every news outlet in America on the 14th.
Even if you don't believe the World is Ending on December 21, 2012, you would be forgiven for believing that American Public Innocence - or rather the popular myth of it, had ended with the deaths of those 20 children and their teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.
For certain it wasn't just the people at the school, the 20-year old gunman, or his mother the first victim, who died on the 14th; we all of us lost something that we might never get back.
If we are to have a chance at redemption after this tragedy, we must finally heed the calls that began in earnest with Columbine, but have lapsed to barely register in public discourse.
Somehow, some way, we must get to a point where these mass killings by guns can no longer happen as easily as they seem to do.
We can't fail in this.
Not if we want the memory of the 14th of December, 2012, to mean something more than just another step down the road to our Apocalypse.
Even if you don't believe the World is Ending on December 21, 2012, you would be forgiven for believing that American Public Innocence - or rather the popular myth of it, had ended with the deaths of those 20 children and their teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.
For certain it wasn't just the people at the school, the 20-year old gunman, or his mother the first victim, who died on the 14th; we all of us lost something that we might never get back.
If we are to have a chance at redemption after this tragedy, we must finally heed the calls that began in earnest with Columbine, but have lapsed to barely register in public discourse.
Somehow, some way, we must get to a point where these mass killings by guns can no longer happen as easily as they seem to do.
We can't fail in this.
Not if we want the memory of the 14th of December, 2012, to mean something more than just another step down the road to our Apocalypse.
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