Connecticut Shootings

By David Hobbs

I must admit to some ambivalence to the tragic news of the shootings in Connecticut. On the one hand I grieve over the innocent children, so suddenly and horrifically cut off from this world, leaving behind traumatized parents, siblings, friends, extended family members, even the entire community. On the other hand, I also grieve over the national hypocrisy so blatantly on display to everyone but the participants.

There has been an outpouring of such overwhelming sadness it could almost be called an “orgy of grief.” There is even talk of never reopening the school where it happened. Yet where is the national mourning over the 20 babies brutally aborted 180 times every day of every year for the last 40 years since abortion was legalized? Where is the grief over them?

Our national blindness is staggering. And yet no one dares mention that the emperor has no clothes.  “But Brother Hobbs, Brother Hobbs, those babies in Sandy Hook were cruelly shot, numerous times.” Tell me an abortion that is not violent and vicious! Partial birth, where the skull is punctured and the brains vacuumed out? D&E, where the baby is dismembered and the pieces vacuumed or removed with forceps? Saline solution, where a powerful saline solution is injected into the womb and the baby is chemically burned to death before evacuation?

We respect the grief of those involved in Sandy Hook, but how about the grief of God over the brutal deaths of 53 million babies in just the U.S. in the 40 years since Roe Vs. Wade? Each baby was given conception by the Holy Spirit and entrusted into the care of man. Each one came with gifts and talents, potentialities for greatness, callings and a destiny it could achieve with proper nurturing and care. Think of the baby Jesus, entrusted into the care of Mary and Joseph, with the calling and destiny to save mankind. Though Jesus was unique, yet He is also a picture of every baby that comes into the world—a gift of God to mankind for its good. The Bible confirms this: “Behold, children are a gift (or heritage) of the Lord,
 [t]he fruit of the womb is a reward.” [Psalm 127:3 NAS].

“But Brother Hobbs, Brother Hobbs, abortions are not my fault; don’t blame me!” Neither is Sandy Hook, yet we all grieve over the loss and look for ways to prevent its reoccurrence. Approximately 15,000 abortions have happened (U.S.) in the week since the shootings took place. Who is mourning them?