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THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0 Thank you.\u00a0 (Applause.) \u00a0Thank you, Governor.\u00a0 To all the families, first responders, to the community of Newtown, clergy, guests \u2014 Scripture tells us: \u00a0\u201c\u2026do not lose heart. \u00a0Though outwardly we are wasting away\u2026inwardly we are being renewed day by day.\u00a0 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. \u00a0So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. \u00a0For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.\u201d<\/p>\n
We gather here in memory of twenty beautiful children and six remarkable adults.\u00a0 They lost their lives in a school that could have been any school; in a quiet town full of good and decent people that could be any town in America.<\/p>\n
Here in Newtown, I come to offer the love and prayers of a nation.\u00a0 I am very mindful that mere words cannot match the depths of your sorrow, nor can they heal your wounded hearts.\u00a0 I can only hope it helps for you to know that you\u2019re not alone in your grief; that our world too has been torn apart; that all across this land of ours, we have wept with you, we\u2019ve pulled our children tight.\u00a0 And you must know that whatever measure of comfort we can provide, we will provide; whatever portion of sadness that we can share with you to ease this heavy load, we will gladly bear it.\u00a0 Newtown \u2014 you are not alone.<\/p>\n
As these difficult days have unfolded, you\u2019ve also inspired us with stories of strength and resolve and sacrifice.\u00a0 We know that when danger arrived in the halls of Sandy Hook Elementary, the school\u2019s staff did not flinch, they did not hesitate.\u00a0 Dawn Hochsprung and Mary Sherlach, Vicki Soto, Lauren Rousseau, Rachel Davino and Anne Marie Murphy \u2014 they responded as we all hope we might respond in such terrifying circumstances \u2014 with courage and with love, giving their lives to protect the children in their care.<\/p>\n
We know that there were other teachers who barricaded themselves inside classrooms, and kept steady through it all, and reassured their students by saying \u201cwait for the good guys, they\u2019re coming\u201d; \u201cshow me your smile.\u201d<\/p>\n
And we know that good guys came.\u00a0 The first responders who raced to the scene, helping to guide those in harm\u2019s way to safety, and comfort those in need, holding at bay their own shock and trauma because they had a job to do, and others needed them more.<\/p>\n
And then there were the scenes of the schoolchildren, helping one another, holding each other, dutifully following instructions in the way that young children sometimes do; one child even trying to encourage a grown-up by saying, \u201cI know karate.\u00a0 So it\u2019s okay.\u00a0 I\u2019ll lead the way out.\u201d\u00a0 (Laughter.)<\/p>\n
As a community, you\u2019ve inspired us, Newtown.\u00a0 In the face of indescribable violence, in the face of unconscionable evil, you\u2019ve looked out for each other, and you\u2019ve cared for one another, and you\u2019ve loved one another.\u00a0 This is how Newtown will be remembered.\u00a0 And with time, and God\u2019s grace, that love will see you through.<\/p>\n
But we, as a nation, we are left with some hard questions.\u00a0 Someone once described the joy and anxiety of parenthood as the equivalent of having your heart outside of your body all the time, walking around.\u00a0 With their very first cry, this most precious, vital part of ourselves \u2014 our child \u2014 is suddenly exposed to the world, to possible mishap or malice.\u00a0 And every parent knows there is nothing we will not do to shield our children from harm.\u00a0 And yet, we also know that with that child\u2019s very first step, and each step after that, they are separating from us; that we won\u2019t \u2014 that we can\u2019t always be there for them.\u00a0 They\u2019ll suffer sickness and setbacks and broken hearts and disappointments.\u00a0 And we learn that our most important job is to give them what they need to become self-reliant and capable and resilient, ready to face the world without fear.<\/p>\n
And we know we can\u2019t do this by ourselves.\u00a0 It comes as a shock at a certain point where you realize, no matter how much you love these kids, you can\u2019t do it by yourself.\u00a0 That this job of keeping our children safe, and teaching them well, is something we can only do together, with the help of friends and neighbors, the help of a community, and the help of a nation.\u00a0 And in that way, we come to realize that we bear a responsibility for every child because we\u2019re counting on everybody else to help look after ours; that we\u2019re all parents; that they\u2019re all our children.<\/p>\n
This is our first task \u2014 caring for our children.\u00a0 It\u2019s our first job.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t get that right, we don\u2019t get anything right.\u00a0 That\u2019s how, as a society, we will be judged.<\/p>\n
And by that measure, can we truly say, as a nation, that we are meeting our obligations?\u00a0 Can we honestly say that we\u2019re doing enough to keep our children \u2014 all of them \u2014 safe from harm?\u00a0 Can we claim, as a nation, that we\u2019re all together there, letting them know that they are loved, and teaching them to love in return?\u00a0 Can we say that we\u2019re truly doing enough to give all the children of this country the chance they deserve to live out their lives in happiness and with purpose?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been reflecting on this the last few days, and if we\u2019re honest with ourselves, the answer is no.\u00a0 We\u2019re not doing enough.\u00a0 And we will have to change.<\/p>\n
Since I\u2019ve been President, this is the fourth time we have come together to comfort a grieving community torn apart by a mass shooting.\u00a0 The fourth time we\u2019ve hugged survivors.\u00a0 The fourth time we\u2019ve consoled the families of victims.\u00a0 And in between, there have been an endless series of deadly shootings across the country, almost daily reports of victims, many of them children, in small towns and big cities all across America \u2014 victims whose \u2014 much of the time, their only fault was being in the wrong place at the wrong time.<\/p>\n
We can\u2019t tolerate this anymore.\u00a0 These tragedies must end.\u00a0 And to end them, we must change.\u00a0 We will be told that the causes of such violence are complex, and that is true.\u00a0 No single law \u2014 no set of laws can eliminate evil from the world, or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society.<\/p>\n
But that can\u2019t be an excuse for inaction.\u00a0 Surely, we can do better than this.\u00a0 If there is even one step we can take to save another child, or another parent, or another town, from the grief that has visited Tucson, and Aurora, and Oak Creek, and Newtown, and communities from Columbine to Blacksburg before that \u2014 then surely we have an obligation to try.<\/p>\n
In the coming weeks, I will use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens \u2014 from law enforcement to mental health professionals to parents and educators \u2014 in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this.\u00a0 Because what choice do we have?\u00a0 We can\u2019t accept events like this as routine.\u00a0 Are we really prepared to say that we\u2019re powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard? \u00a0Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?<\/p>\n
All the world\u2019s religions \u2014 so many of them represented here today \u2014 start with a simple question:\u00a0 Why are we here?\u00a0 What gives our life meaning? \u00a0What gives our acts purpose?\u00a0 We know our time on this Earth is fleeting.\u00a0 We know that we will each have our share of pleasure and pain; that even after we chase after some earthly goal, whether it\u2019s wealth or power or fame, or just simple comfort, we will, in some fashion, fall short of what we had hoped.\u00a0 We know that no matter how good our intentions, we will all stumble sometimes, in some way. \u00a0We will make mistakes, we will experience hardships.\u00a0 And even when we\u2019re trying to do the right thing, we know that much of our time will be spent groping through the darkness, so often unable to discern God\u2019s heavenly plans.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s only one thing we can be sure of, and that is the love that we have \u2014 for our children, for our families, for each other.\u00a0 The warmth of a small child\u2019s embrace \u2014 that is true.\u00a0 The memories we have of them, the joy that they bring, the wonder we see through their eyes, that fierce and boundless love we feel for them, a love that takes us out of ourselves, and binds us to something larger \u2014 we know that\u2019s what matters.\u00a0 We know we\u2019re always doing right when we\u2019re taking care of them, when we\u2019re teaching them well, when we\u2019re showing acts of kindness.\u00a0 We don\u2019t go wrong when we do that.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what we can be sure of.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what you, the people of Newtown, have reminded us.\u00a0 That\u2019s how you\u2019ve inspired us.\u00a0 You remind us what matters.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what should drive us forward in everything we do, for as long as God sees fit to keep us on this Earth.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet the little children come to me,\u201d Jesus said, \u201cand do not hinder them \u2014 for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charlotte.\u00a0 Daniel.\u00a0 Olivia.\u00a0 Josephine. \u00a0Ana.\u00a0 Dylan.\u00a0 Madeleine.\u00a0 Catherine.\u00a0 Chase.\u00a0 Jesse.\u00a0 James.\u00a0 Grace.\u00a0 Emilie.\u00a0 Jack.\u00a0 Noah.\u00a0 Caroline.\u00a0 Jessica.\u00a0 Benjamin.\u00a0 Avielle.\u00a0 Allison.<\/p>\n
God has called them all home.\u00a0 For those of us who remain, let us find the strength to carry on, and make our country worthy of their memory.<\/p>\n
May God bless and keep those we\u2019ve lost in His heavenly place.\u00a0 May He grace those we still have with His holy comfort.\u00a0 And may He bless and watch over this community, and the United States of America.\u00a0 (Applause.)<\/p>\n
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