After the gun horror in Aurora, Colorado, where a gunman killed and hurt a large number of innocent people, President Obama had said that the tragedy serves as a reminder that “life is very fragile.” He said similar things in Connecticut today.
“Our time here is limited and it is precious. And what matters at the end of the day is not the small things, it’s not the trivial things, which so often consume us and our daily lives. Ultimately, it’s how we choose to treat one another and how we love one another,” he said.
I am very happy to know that President Obama still did not lose his poise and eloquence even after this gruesome mass killing that shook the entire world. Really, he should not because he is the president of USA; a president must keep his poise and emotional balance even under extreme circumstances. I congratulate him for his calm.
I am a powerless man with no money, no media, no military and no mass support. I am a powerless man who can only imagine what went on with those fear-stricken children in Sandy Hook elementary school today. I can imagine their scared-to-death, white faces. I can only imagine what those poor victims thought just before the mass killer mowed them down — one after the other.
I can imagine placing myself in that crowd of horrified, screaming victims of gun violence. I can imagine the hit and the hurt and splattering blood when a bunch of ultra-modern, powerful, lethal bullets pierced through my heart and blanketed my world with one final darkness. In the final moments, I can imagine I was praying to God that my wife and children be left safe. I was only wanting that they be left alone.
In those final moments before my death, I imagine I was praying to God that this be the last gun barbarism, ever.
President Obama, contrary to some of his predecessors, always says something that somehow resonates and stays back with you. In fact, he said this (and so, yes, a very powerful man that he is, his thoughts were not much different from those of mine, a very powerless man):
Upon learning the Connecticut gun violence news, the president said: