Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting

My heart goes out to the families of the victims of the senseless shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. It is unimaginable losing lives in such an act especially lives so young. Too many of these senseless shootings keep occuring everyday, yet certain Congress persons continue to avoid addressing the question of gun control especially since they are under the financial influence of lobbiest. They have not responded when hundreds of youth in Chicago and other cities have died as a result of gun violence. Will they respond now? The NRA sent out a statement that they have no comments, but when they do, it will be very interesting to hear what they say. The second observation is the comments on the news that such an incident never should have occurred in Newtown, for a number of reasons such as follows: nice place to live, good schools, beautiful countryside homes, original New England homes, middle class, tight-knit community, everybody is happy, family oriented community, never any crimes, every one knows everyone, terrific quality of life, etc. etc. etc. So, it appears that for such idealistic reasons, the residents of Newtown just simply let down their guard since not living in a big city with a diverse, cultural populations caused them to believe that no violent crimes could occur. However, crime is not partial to a town with such characteristice -- crime occurs everywhere.