Homeschooling & Tragedy

When anything like the Newtown shootings happens, I normally try to avoid stories about the tragedy. I admit it, I know I probably will find out everything, soon. But this was different, the moment I saw "school" and "children", I clicked. And became so sad.
That afternoon we went to the grocery store, my dad got out and a man we know moderately went up to him and said, "another good reason for homeschooling". He didn't say what he was talking about but my dad understood.   I saw this today, http://fox5sandiego.com/2012/12/20/interest-in-homeschooling-surges-following-deadly-elementary-school-shooting-in-ct/. It is on the same topic. My problem with mentioning homeschooling at this time, saying it's just another reason to homeschool, is twofold, firstly wait more than a week to put morals on this tragedy. It is so horrible, so terrible, that letting everyone grieve is best . Also talking about this as a reason for homeschooling, opens a whole new can of worms, there are rumors that Adam Lanza was homeschooled.
If you have opinions about this please comment.

A Rant

In my email I have an alert set up for news stories about homeschooling, my main reason for setting the alert up was so that I could see political stories about homeschooling. Because that's  what interests me the most, politics and homeschooling. But for the six months or so I have had this alert set up, I have had  almost no domestic political homeschooling stories. Other than the very helpful comment from Paul Ryan about how they respect that parents can make their own decision about education. This video, yes this! Is one of the only proofs I can muster that politicians pay attention to homeschooling . And it comes from a very unhelpful source, everyone knows that Ron Paul types like homeschooling. I have nothing against them, it is great that there are homeschool supporters!
But we need new ones, otherwise homeschooling will forever be a stereotyped institution.
There. I'm done. Thank you for listening.