By Michael ViscontiEDGEWATER -- I am here in Connecticut for the Christmas Holidays and I see all the people are not in the Christmas spirit: The churches are crowded and all are looking for guidance, hoping to hear words of comfort and praying over the loss of 26 lives at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.
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They are praying that we can put an end to this kind of tragedy: Twenty children and six adults at an elementary school. How can this happen?
In a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. a gunman killed 12 and wounded 70. A few years ago at Virginia Tech, another gunman killed 32 and wounded 17. Back in 1999 in Columbine, two teenagers with guns killed 12 and wounded another 21.
And worse than anything, the 20-yar-old guinman in Newtown killed 20 little kids, ages 6 and 7, along with six adults and earlier that morning his own mother. With 27 dead, he then took his own life.
When will it end? Connecticut mourns. The country mourns. The world mourns.
I lived in Connecticut for 52 years where my three children were born and still live. My son, Mick lives in Monroe only a few miles from the school where the tragedy took place. My first date with my wife-to-be was at the Hawley Manner Inn only a mile from Newtown, the quaint and beautiful town.
Whatever happened to the Golden Rule?
It is time we paid attention and learned to love one another. President and Mrs. Obama, as parents, attended the memorial services at Newtown High School for these beautiful children, the educators who did all they could to protect them and their grieving families.
God bless the children and God bless America.