Video of Sandy Hook survivors as they prepare to graduate high school last summer(9:10)

I am sitting here trying to come up with some meaningful phrase to try to capture the continuing enormity of what happened 12 years ago today. There is little that can be said except that like in many issues those who stand to make big bucks from the suffering of others – especially the poor and the vulnerable – often are able to exploit such a tragedy to multiply their wealth.

When we have what seems to be a transforming event those who profit from the suffering of others seem to somehow always come up with ways to forestall and sometimes even profit more from the tragedy. Or they often even profit further despite a tragedy.

Just a week ago we had an incident that high lighted what in America has become a true tragedy – how Americans are denied access to the use of their own insurance dollars for their own healthcare. Stories of denials that lead almost immediately to a patients demise have been all over the internet. 

Expect the insurance companies to follow the lead of the gun industry and keep a low profile for a while as the politicians they have bought work to lower the temperature of the nation on insurance company malfeasance.  Voila, another horrific tragedy (I mean the insurance company denials) swept under the rug with no change.

Not only will the paid shills in congress once again avoid doing anything, they will probably pick up votes from the very voters who are harmed by their action.

So here we are 12 years after the horrendous tragedy in Connecticut. The party that refuses to do a damned thing to stop the insane gun lobby has just taken over our government from stem to stern with no plans giving up their power ever.

And in 12 years death by gun is the leading killer of under-18 year olds in the US.