Media Goon: I woke up to some really crappy news this morning and it really gets me down. The shooting that was all over the news yesterday in Arizona of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others included a nine year old girl.
The little girl that was shot and killed was former Mets manager Dallas Green’s granddaughter. Her father John Green is a scout for the LA Dodgers. Our thoughts are with the Green family and all the other victims from this senseless shooting.
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UPDATE 10:05am Shannon here.
Before all the talking heads argue back and forth over politics let’s take a second to think about this senseless act of violence and a especially a young life snuffed out.
I’m posting this picture not to be sensational but because of the emotional impact. I’m also making this post “stuck” to the top of the blog for the day. New items will roll out below.
The brown-eyed athletic girl had one sibling, an 11-year-old brother named Dallas, and the two loved to go swimming together.
She’d already told her parents she wanted to attend Penn State one day and have a career that involved helping those less fortunate than her.
She also loved animals and was a passionate dancer who loved ballet, hip-hop, jazz and gymnastics and was the only girl on her Canyon del Oro Little League baseball team, “The Pirates.” She played second base.
Much more in the Arizona Daily Star.
Take the political discussions elsewhere.
I’ve got kids, so I can now relate as a parent to what it *might* feel like. And I can’t even imagine.
People are saying this wasn’t political. That’s a nice PC thing to say, but from my reading of it, there’s been a group of people who have been very anxious to use guns to intimidate politicians.
I realize there’s always a lone guy out there and it’s not typical of the group at large. Actually, I had a family that was close to ours, through church, and they took us to Mets games way back when, in the 70s. One of the boys was angry, and he used to hit us all the time. So, I wasn’t surprised when he later in life attempted a political assassination in this city. From the big scope, it was just a racial thing, but knowing him personally, I realized he was a loose cannon looking for a cause.
This does not exonerate the politicians who whip up people like this with talk of shooting, locking and loading, etc.
PS – I bring that up because it’s not like she got sick, choked on a Cheerio, fell through the ice, or was the victim of some car accident. This was intentional. For the survivors, I bet it’s going to make a difference, because in addition to the sadness, there will – and should- be outrage.