Patty Murray: “yesterday's tragedy in Littleton, Colorado has brought the nation together in our sense of shock and horror. I want the…”

“yesterday's tragedy in Littleton, Colorado has brought the nation together in our sense of shock and horror. I want the people of Littleton to know that they are in our thoughts and our hearts. We cannot know the devastation they must feel, and we can only imagine, ``what if that were my child?'' In this time of terrible sorrow, your nation sends its profound sympathy. Yesterday, two heavily-armed students went into Columbine High School in Littleton, in what has been described as a suicide mission, to bring violence and death on their classmates, their teachers, and themselves. One student last night, a girl from another high school who visited Columbine to show her support, made a very important observation: ``People always say `it couldn't happen here; it couldn't happen to me,' well, it did happen here; it did happen to us.'' We must ask ourselves what we can to stop this senseless violence from happening again in another town, another community, another school.”