Being a father of two children, I can imagine how it could feel to lose a child or all my children to something like this, but the actual reality of it would be incomprehensible.
However, while the outpouring of kindness and 'standing together-ness' is what I expect, as we should all be sympathetic to the horror these people are going through, I can't help but feel a little hypocritical when it's been happening to places like Syria and Lybia etc, for longer than I've bothered to find out about and we don't behave in the same manner.
Whether you agree with me or not, social media, journalistic media has its part in creating a 'trend' of this type of public display of empathy which leaves me feeling quite ashamed of myself knowing that our countries all feed in to the conflict that's driving these people toward these actions in some respects. Religion plays its part as well as the unhinged nature of the purpotrators.
This isn't meant to be goading anyone into a bun fight, I'm just expressing something I feel every time I see something like this happen and the aftermath of it seems all to familiar and each time it just takes the realness off of it making me feel more angry but less empowered each time to do something about it.