Chris Murphy: I want to tell you what 7 yr old Daniel did, 7 yrs ago today.
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Chris Murphy ✔ @ChrisMurphyCT
I want to tell you a story. An important story.
And then I want you to share it.
To help people understand why the small things we do matter - amidst all the big things that seem so insurmountable and scary.
1/ I want to tell you what 7 yr old Daniel did, 7 yrs ago today.
2/ Daniel never awoke before his beloved older brother, who got on the bus at 6:20 each morning.
But on Dec.14, 2012, implausibly, he did. He hustled down the driveway in his pjs and flip flops, and hugged his brother goodbye.
“The only time that ever happened”, said his dad.
3/ Back inside, his dad told him he could go back to bed, but Daniel wouldn’t. He wanted to cuddle with his dad.
When his sister left for school, and his mom left for work, they got big hugs too. So nice, they remember, because often Daniel was still asleep when they left.
4/ On the walk to the bus stop with his dad, he didn’t want to play their usual game of tag.
“Can we just hold hands today?” He asked.
So they did.
5/ Daniel didn’t come home on the bus that afternoon.
He died, 7 years ago today, in his first grade classroom.
But what he did that morning - the hugs, the cuddling, the holding hands - are, for his family, perhaps the most important things he ever did.
9:22 AM - Dec 14, 2019
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The math didn't make sense, until I read.
Then it gutted me.
can have access to the most deadly anti-personnel shooting weapons available?
And so some other old white guys (every American gun manufacturer's CEO) can keep making money.
Greed and factionalism created the context for us losing this beautiful, young soul.
But, as we all know, "guns had nothing to do with it."
...to the most horrific, heartbreaking, and senseless loss of a child--a family member and a trusting innocent filled with promise and life expectations. Those children were our children. Our children now practice live shooter drills in schools all across our nation and are forced to live with terror they have no escape from.
All we can do is attempt to comfort them with promises that we will do all we can to make sure their fears never become reality, and our efforts die at the feet of Republicans.
Sandy Hook marked the Republicans as heinous villains, and they haven't done a thing to show another side of themselves since--and all while they wrap themselves in our treasured symbols of patriotism and parrot Russian-fed talking points.
Every single one of them should be confronted with their failure as human beings and as abusers of the public trust every damn day.
Daniel and all the kids
