[edwords]

So he uses his son's death as yet another opportunity to spend taxpayers' money. How cold.

[hobson]

You're pathetic.

[KQQL]

So he uses his son's death as yet another opportunity to spend taxpayers' money. How cold

You are the one who is cold.........where is your compassion .....?

[KQQL]

YOU ARE A SICKO !

[Salvation]

Where is your sense of compassion?

Obviously, you have never lost one close to you through death or divorce????

Prayers offered for you.

[mrs tiggywinkle]

I'm completely overwhelmed by your compassion for this family. Not.

[Wolfstar]

So he uses his son's death as yet another opportunity to spend taxpayers' money. How cold.

I don't know if you've ever suffered through the death of someone you love very, very deeply. By your comment, I'd guess not. But let me tell you, as one who knows such loss intimately, that one of the manifestations of grief is a need to memorialize the loved one who died. Typically, the type of memorial is based on the type of death. Legislation is not an uncommon form of memorial if the death was of a nature — cancer, murder, terrorism, kidnapping, etc. — so as to affect society at large.

The Smiths are not using their son's death, they are memorializing him through a piece of legislation they believe may prevent other young people from going down the same dark road. It's their way of both giving his life meaning and giving their son a legacy.

If you are incapable of both understanding and sympathizing with what they are doing, you are a very empty individual, indeed. (Notice I didn't say agree with, merely understand and sypathize with...)

[George W. Bush]

edwords: So he uses his son's death as yet another opportunity to spend taxpayers' money. How cold.

KQQL: You are the one who is cold.........where is your compassion ...?

I wonder if Senator Gordon will sponsor a memorial to the Gulf War vets? It seems to me that there were many other young people who died in the two conflicts whose deaths were as senseless and grievous to their families as Gordon's own loss was to him.

And Gordon's son obviously wanted to die. Our dead veterans didn't want to die. And our vets died for our country and under federal authority while discharging their duty.

So, KQQL, where exactly is Gordon's compassion anyway?

I think that Gordon's own remarks indicate that he never really took the time to intervene with the troubled son, that his career and other interests took priority. Now he's paid the emotional price for his negligence and wants the rest of us to pay a much larger price for his negligence. All to assuage his own guilt.

[tcuoohjohn]

Three things I know about Edwords.

1. He doesn't have any children

2. He is devoid of any sense of compassion.

3. His most intimate relationship is with his wallet.