Newtown, Conn School Shooting

[NovaAman]

Except that children are not for sorting...

 

[chickened]

When a person is so remote and in a place where shooting kids is a desire of the mind a bullet from the gun of anybody to stop him is the only answer as far as Im concerned, I do not want to lose that ability for someone to do just that.

 

[NovaAman]

When it comes right down to it... It was a person pulling the trigger. It would not have mattered what kind of gun he used. His intent was clear. Any gun would have sufficed. He would have just taken a little longer to be satisfied with his numbers before offing himself. It doesn't matter one darn bit that his mother took him to a shooting range. All that did was teach him to be a more accurate shot. It isn't her fault that he killed those kids. She didn't put the gun in his hand and tell him to shoot her in the face then go and kill off a bunch of 6-7 year olds and then himself. The fact of the matter is, this kid was an evil vacant person. He killed his mother. He killed children. He was intent on murder. He was set on it. He would have gotten a gun somewhere, he tried to get his own but didn't want to wait. Why would his mother have the guns locked up? He wasn't a little kid. Just cuz aspergers(SP?) doesn't mean pyschopath. So why would she think she should? If he couldn't have gotten a gun, with as smart as he was, sooner or later, he may have made his own, made a bomb, or went ahead and went the route of the psychopath in China who knifed a bunch of children.

The fact of the matter is, 20 children died. Attention needs to be paid to that. And it wasn't in a big town with high crime rates and gang violence, where we all would have said... well what do we expect? Blinked a few tears... No, this was a good small community where it is a SHOCK to all Americans. Now it makes us all think, this could have been my town... I couldn't imagine this happening in my town. But they wouldn't have imagined it in theres. And it will happen again. It will happen in another small town/city, we will be shocked all over again, and we will have this debate all over again. I am sorry, but armed security is the way to go. Yes, even in an elementary school. Not the teachers. I don't think the teachers should be armed. You may end up with a teacher at his/her wits ends and do harm. But Security Guards. I would pay a tax to my school district just for the pay/training expenses to keep the security guards. If it means protecting my children and their classmates, I would pay.

 

[NovaAman]

As for mentally ill and guns.. I agree. My dad was BP... He was a mix of both homicidal and suicidal. He always had guns and knifes. After voluntarily having himself admitted to the psych ward to get his head straightened out... he was fantasing about killing cops and my mom... He had me take the guns to the shop next door, a country farm and gun shop, and sold the guns. He always had locks on the guns and the guns locked up... Didn't matter. He decided that they needed to be gone, and they were. We never got another gun while he was alive. I don't have one now. I want to get one for predators of all kinds though. But haven't yet. I just ask the neighbor. I will however eventually get a shotgun or a rifle. I am also saving up to take a concealed carry licence. I will have that first before I get the gun or a taser, and that is because I work out of my car... Right now I have a big stick. But I agree that those with mental illness, or history of it, whether medically treated or not, should not have guns.

 

[tadpole98]

The father to a student went and shot them? what if he were to kill his child? sickening.

 

[donrae]

Prayers. Just so many prayers going up right now.

 

[Tanichca]

Horrible, horrible beast. He was 24... Father to a kindergartener, his mom was a teacher there. Monster. There's a special circle of hell for creatures like him. He doesn't even deserve to be part of humanity any more.

RIP to the victims.this just infuriates me!

 

[Peaches Lee]

Wow, that is really awful. Condolences to the families.

 

[terrilhb]

My prayers are with these people. I am speechless. I wish I could understand it. But can not.

 

[Tanichca]

They've brought the death tole to 29, 20 of which are children. The shooter, Ryan Lanza, is dead and his accomplice is in custody. The President was crying during his statement today... As are we all. A dark day.