There is no way to reconcile what happened in Newtown, Conn. However, there is a chain of events that led to the massacre independent of the shooter.
The links of that chain were forged by the will of free people.We now know what can happen when you assemble the most innocent, precious, beautiful and vulnerable among us in one place and take away (by law) the capacity of good men to protect those children and fail to offer effective means of substitute protection.What a "gun-free" zone really means is that the right of a person to protect himself or those he is duty-bound to protect is stripped away upon entering those premises.In some places, such as in courts of law, an armed bailiff and, in some cases, a judge acts as a surrogate protector. In Newtown, there was no such surrogate. We live in a society where the duty to protect children from evil is recognized but the capacity to truly protect has been willfully removed.-- Jeffrey Natterer, Fort WorthHave more to add? News tip? Tell us
