How?

As I sit here writing this post all I can ask is, how?  How can someone end the lives of so many innocent children and teachers?  How can someone wake up one morning and decide that they want to destroy the lives of countless families?  It is so sickening that there are people out there who take pleasure in the pain of others.  20 children will never grow up, they will never ride their bikes again or see their friends again.  They will never go to prom or graduate from high school and get into the college of their dreams.  They will never hug their parents again or laugh again.  These families will never be the same and they will never recover from this unthinkable tragedy.  It is truly a sad day in our nation when children are not even safe in their own school.  Schools are supposed to be our home away from home, our safe havens, not the scene of tragedy and despair.  Everytime I hear an update on this story I cannot help but cry, as an educator I am thinking about my own students who are four years old.  It breaks my heart to even think that someone can look a helpless child in the face and hurt them.  Nothing that anyone says to those families will bring their children and loved ones back, all they have now are memories of lives that once were.  Hug your loved ones and tell them that you love them everyday, please.  God now has 29 more angels in heaven, and all we can do is pray for the families of those victims.  God Bless.