The Colorado Shootings… It is difficult to put the emotions I have felt while hearing of the recent Colorado shootings.  Due to the amount of negative rather than positive things mentioned, I have never been a big fan of watching the news.  The past few days have been quite different.  My eyes and ears have been glued to the coverage revolving around the recent Colorado shootings.

My intense desire to know all that I can about the movie theatre massacre is due to a few factors.  First, it was just a movie… So many of us have been to just a movie.  Second, a six year old girl was killed.  Similar to my daughter’s ages.  I think knowing she was six, and had been killed, was when the reality of what occurred really hit me.  Six years old, her life stripped.  Third, the pictures posted of the gunman’s face… I cannot seem to get them out of my mind.  Although I am not sure what I expected him to look like, his pictures are not it.

The past few nights, I’ve had a few nightmares revolving around my daughters.  Each one was similar in the sense that I did not have control over their safety.  The feeling is awful.  Most upsetting about the shootings in Colorado, are how critical everyone has been about the parent’s of the six year old girl who was killed.  Although I do not agree with allowing a six year old to go to a midnight showing of any movie, I also don’t agree with others speaking ill of the parents.  They lost a child.  Regardless of whether it was the right, or wrong thing to do, they lost a child.  They will never get their daughter back.  Their loss is beyond words.  They will never get over the grief they have been forced to endure due to the shooter.  My nightmares will be forgotten someday, some already have.  Unfortunately, the nightmare witnessed by the men, women and children in the Colorado theatre during the shooting, will never be forgotten.