News reports indicate a neighbor of nine-year-old Christina Taylor Green of Tucson was going to Congresswoman Garbrielle Giffords’ event yesterday morning and invited the youngster to come along. Christina had just been elected to the student council at her school and was interested in politics and public service.
Christina was born on September 11, 2001, and her mother says she believes it symbolic of her daughter’s patriotism.
My daugher is also nine and other than knowing I was elected to city council until she was five, hasn’t expressed much of an interest in politics. I’m okay with that, either way.
Yet, reading about that little victim, I not only thought about my daughter, but it hit me. The thought of a little girl just elected to her student council. The purest and most innocent expression of representative government, coming face to face with the darkest, sickest form of lashing out against it.
The most tragic of ironies.
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January 9th, 2011 at 12:00 am
What happened is horrible. During the news cycle last night, I switched over to the Communist News Network (CNN) and sure enough they were trying their hardest to stretch any incoming reports to assert that this tradegy was somehow related to or prompted by political motives and they are hoping they can tie this to current conservative activism.
The truth is that this guy was deranged. If Tom McClintock, Newt Gingrinch,Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin or Jim Demint were standing there, he would have shot them all as well. He did not give the victims an idealogy exam before opening fire.
So many people killed and hurt so bad is horrific.While there are no good answers as to the why…we must humble ourselves and ask the true and living God to help these victims get better and be restored.