Connecticut School Shooting

[sun]

Unfathomable. I'm at a loss for words

[Senator Clay Davis]

Wow interviewing the kids. As if modern journalism hadn't already reached rock bottom.

[Ozy_Flame]

Mass shooters like this absolutely realize that they can do far more damage with a gun than a melee weapon, and in less time. Also, when they choose to end their own lives, a gunshot to the head is far quicker and less painful than trying to bludgeon yourself to death.

Guns are absolutely, positively, the reason why the frequency of this is increasing. Guns enable quick, violent assaults.

[J pold]

Wow heavy heart right now. I don’t want to think of a room of helpless children screaming in terror as they are gunned down but unfortunately that’s all I can picture. You ask yourself the question, who could do something like this? But what’s the point? There is no answer or at least there isn’t one that could ever make something like this make sense.

I hope this starts the conversation of gun control, or why these tragic events happen so often in the USA and so little everywhere else. This guy is a monster, I am probably more forgiving then most when it comes to criminals but I do not care what problems he had growing up or what mental issues he may have. If you turn a weapon on helpless children you are a monster. It’s time like this that I wish there was a hell so that this fataing dirt bag could spend eternity there.

[Galakanokis]

I think more than anything guns allow a person to depersonalize the attack. Shooting somebody at random vs looking them in the eye while you stab them or choke them? has to be completely different. Guns just make the killing so much easier on many levels.

I simply cannot comprehend this, thought went into doing this! Absolutely crazy. My heart goes out to the families involved.

[First Lady]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Wow interviewing the kids. As if modern journalism hadn't already reached rock bottom.

I'm pretty sure they would parental approval before hand. Not saying that makes it better..... just sayin'.

[edslunch]

I'm going to lose it the next time I hear someone say:

Now's not the time to talk about guns

If guns weren't legal they'd just get them on the black market

If they didn't have guns they'd use something else

No point having gun control the problems are cultural

Someone with a gun could have prevented this

[Burninator]

I honestly hope that America uses this as a rallying point to stop this problem. Whether it be gun control, mental health problems, societal and cultural changes or all of them, something needs to be done.

[CedarMeter]

They're interviewing Kids!.WTF!

[opendoor]

Originally Posted by Burninator

I honestly hope that America uses this as a rallying point to stop this problem. Whether it be gun control, mental health problems, societal and cultural changes or all of them, something needs to be done.

Hopefully, but I'm skeptical. Reading other forums I've already seen Americans talk about how more guns might have prevented this and how violent video games are the real problem. Pretty much everything's to blame but their ridiculous guns laws and culture.

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Wow interviewing the kids. As if modern journalism hadn't already reached rock bottom.

They're eyewitnesses to the story and interviewed with permission from their parents. Without doubt, they'll also be interviewed by the police.

It's the call of the parents. I have no problem with it.

Cowperson

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Galakanokis

I think more than anything guns allow a person to depersonalize the attack. Shooting somebody at random vs looking them in the eye while you stab them or choke them? has to be completely different. Guns just make the killing so much easier on many levels.

I simply cannot comprehend this, thought went into doing this! Absolutely crazy. My heart goes out to the families involved.

This. Same goes for road rage. I honestly want to cry

[Senator Clay Davis]

Originally Posted by First Lady

I'm pretty sure they would parental approval before hand. Not saying that makes it better..... just sayin'.

I really hope you're right. Still, the parents right now need to be comforting and being with their kids, not letting them go on national TV. I don't need (or quite frankly want) to know more about this. The more I know the more sick I'll feel.

[gargamel]

Search warrants being executed inside and outside of Connecticut. This is crazy.

[Zulu29]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

They're eyewitnesses to the story and interviewed with permission from their parents. Without doubt, they'll also be interviewed by the police.

It's the call of the parents. I have no problem with it.

Cowperson

You're seriously comparing police interviewing the kids as witnesses to figure out what happened and some sleazy reporter shoving a mic in front of some poor kid who just saw their classmates get murderes in cold blood?

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

They're eyewitnesses to the story and interviewed with permission from their parents. Without doubt, they'll also be interviewed by the police.

It's the call of the parents. I have no problem with it.

Cowperson

Just goes to show not all parents are good parents. If my child had just survived that I would be too busy hugging them to let some ####### stick a mic in their face.

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by gargamel

Search warrants being executed inside and outside of Connecticut. This is crazy.

I have heard unconfirmed reports that the shooter is from Washington state, so that might explain the warrants executed outside of Ct.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

If there were no guns, the guy would have choked 27 people to death anyways.

What are even talking about?

[vektor]

Originally Posted by Burninator

I honestly hope that America uses this as a rallying point to stop this problem. Whether it be gun control, mental health problems, societal and cultural changes or all of them, something needs to be done.

In my opinion it's mostly a mental health problem. There is too much stress, too much consumerism, too much unhealthy food and too many pharmaceutical drugs driving the Americans crazy. They are going to stop the symptom (gun control) and the problem will only fester to worse things, making lethal devices is not hard, you could make a large explosive with $50 worth of material that would do just the same amount of damage as this school shooting. It's horrific what's happening and people need to look at the root cause, their society has fundamental issues with the majority of lifestyle patterns.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by valo403

What are even talking about?

tongue was in cheek.......