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Former Marine Stands Guard outside Of His Daughter's School After Sandy Hook massacre
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[quote:Akhnaton:MV8yMDg3NzM5XzM1MTUyNjI3X0JGNjA5MjVD] [quote:ifSHTF:MV8yMDg3NzM5XzM1MTUyNTMwXzNBNTk4OEU3] [quote:Lucky Charms:MV8yMDg3NzM5XzM1MTUxNDM1XzU5NDRCOUIx] As we say in this country, fair play to him. Something about this story just makes me smile and feel a little sad at the same time. [/quote] It makes me sad. I am proud that he is defending his child's school, but sad that this is yet another media event sensationalizing an incident that for the most part is remote. This event is going to end up costing many more lives if it creates additional gun laws that prevent citizens from protecting themselves... As horrible a tragedy as this event, or other events like this were, are, or will be, the victims involved do not even make up a percentile of our total population, yet they generally end up impacting changes that have an effect on a large % of the population. Even if we look at 9/11 and how horrible that was and how many deaths occurred - it was still just a blip in the big picture, yet look at all the changes that followed. Or... look at how many were killed in the "war on terror" that resulted. I feel like we're largely only look at one side of the coin because its the only side we're shown. Also, I'm not trying to discount any of the lives lost, because they are infinitely important to the families that lost them - but the media should NOT be sensationalizing that loss! [b]The loss of a child is an absolute tragedy.[/b] [/quote] [b]The death of a child is not automatically a tragedy. A tragedy is a literary work in which the main character comes to ruin as a consequence of a moral weakness or fatal flaw. Shakespeare wrote tragedies. A guy shooting 20 kids and then blowing his brains out is not a tragedy.[/b] [/quote]
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A former Marine and father of two decided to help ease his daughter's fears after the tragic school shooting in Connecticut late last week by standing guard outside her west Nashville school.
Jordan Pritchard served eight years in the Marine Corps and was honorably discharged last May.
Over the weekend, Pritchard said his daughter told him she was scared to return to school following the Connecticut tragedy. Â
"As a dad, I can't have that. I can't have my daughter come to school worried about somebody coming in and hurting her," Pritchard said.
He added, "To settle her peace of mind, who better than her dad to come out here and stand in front of the school?"
Pritchard told Nashville's News 2 he dusted off his Marine Corps uniform and has been standing guard in front of the school since Monday.
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