"I prefer this to the alternative."

~John Green, father of the 9-year old killed this weekend, speaking of the tragedies that can happen living in the free world.

With his child born on 9-11, and a worldly job inside baseball that took him across the country, surely Mr. Green has had time to think about what he's saying. "I prefer this to the alternative", even now when he's down, when he's paying such a price for bringing his daughter up to live life in freedom.

God bless the Green family. Their strength is what we should be concentrating on to get the nation through, not the sad motivations of the killer. There are a million potential immature killers -- look at the suicide rates -- but there are very few children whose deaths aren't worth pages and pages of copy, and hours and hours of video footage.

Keep your eye on the ball, America!