Silence Begets Violence?

The tragedy that struck Connecticut has been felt not only in Newtown but everywhere around the world. People everywhere are sharing their sympathy and compassion with those who are suffering due to the actions taken that day. I feel we as a whole nation feel compelled to respond to this tragedy immediately due to the severity and horror of it all. I can say with confidence that if this same tragedy had happened to adults or teenagers, everyone would still share the same sympathy and feel the need to help in whatever way they can. However, the fact that they were children makes matters that much worse. We cannot wrap our minds around how it is possible for a human being to commit such a crime on such innocent lives. This has created such a direct call to action because it deserves one. The topics such as video games, gun control, and mental health treatment would not have been brought up to the severity that it has because of this event. Whether I believe in stricter gun control laws or banned video games, to me, is not the important issue and not what we as a society should be doing to help. We should be offering our services to anyone who needs it. We should be giving our love and sympathy and support to all those effected by it. It's hard to say where we should go from this without putting personal preferences into the matter, however, i do believe that if we all simply turned off the news and the media and stopped centering these events around the killers, it would prove more beneficial in the end. We would know the names of the victims, not the names of the murderers. We wouldn't be broadcasting the event so some other mentally unstable person could go and "top it." Their will always be problems and tragedies in the world, however we can help to lessen them.