Connecticut Elementary School Shooting

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57559261/children-gunman-dead-in-conn-elementary-school-shooting/

I really really really detest this type of shit. Why did this shooting happen? Why the kids, FFS? I want to know more about this. But does this really make a case for more gun control or is this a symptom of another problem? How can we stop shit like this from happening?

Waits for: "If there where more guns and the teachers were armed, this wouldn't have happened".

Edit: May fav response in the responses.

"I am not a Bible thumper by any stretch of the imagination, but this is what happens when we take God out of our society because allowing people in our society to be Christian is so offensive. No one respects human life anymore and we see more and more of this happening as we become more and more detached as a society."

Just has to use a horrific incident as a springboard to push own personal belief of God. Assclown.

Originally posted by Robtard
Waits for: "If there where more guns and the teachers were armed, this wouldn't have happened".

I just can't say that about this situation. This is an Elementary School not a college. There are no armed guards at almost every Elementary school in the US, as well. There is pretty much no avoiding this type of shit in elementary school and the "arm everyone!" answer just won't cut it.

We need to know more, of course. I'm sure others will update this thread with more information as they discover it. But there still has to be a solution.

Originally posted by Robtard
"I am not a Bible thumper by any stretch of the imagination, but this is what happens when we take God out of our society because allowing people in our society to be Christian is so offensive. No one respects human life anymore and we see more and more of this happening as we become more and more detached as a society."

Just has to use a horrific incident to as a springboard to push own personal belief of God. Assclown.

I may agree with that person if Christianity meant what it did waaaaaaay back in the day where: individuals would knowingly contract deadly diseases to take care of perfect strangers as required by "Christian Doctrine", Christians were not among the most-war-mongering US Citizens which is contrary to Christian Doctrine.

To state it more succinctly, I may agree with that notion if Christians were actually Christians these days (oooooh! Sick burrrn!)

I'm a little jaded, I used to post in a board that was filled with Far Right Conservatives and Religious whacks; that was there standard answer to every "shooting" incident.

eg Columbine = Need more guns

But to the story, said the shooter (or at least one of the shooters) was a 20 year old father of a child that went to the school.

Originally posted by dadudemon
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57559261/children-gunman-dead-in-conn-elementary-school-shooting/

I really really really detest this type of shit. Why did this shooting happen? Why the kids, FFS? I want to know more about this. But does this really make a case for more gun control or is this a symptom of another problem? How can we stop shit like this from happening?

I come from a place where guns a prohibited..... cept for the dealers.

And everyday I'm surprised North America isn't riddled with school shootings every week considering their easy distribution of weapons.

Every geek on the street who feels insecure, every confused durbrain who wants revenge on those who made him feel small.

Just shoot em, is all that runs through their heads.
With the freaks I have to watch everyday I thank HeyZues above that we don't have guns lying around every corner.

Originally posted by Robtard
I'm a little jaded, I used to post in a board that was filled with Far Right Conservatives and Religious whacks; that was there standard answer to every "shooting" incident.

eg Columbine = Need more guns

But to the story, said the shooter (or at least one of the shooters) was a 20 year old father of a child that went to the school.

Can you imagine the daily bloodshed if just about everyone was packing and were pulling out their guns are every perceived "crime."

Originally posted by dadudemon
I just can't say that about this situation. This is an Elementary School not a college. There are no armed guards at almost every Elementary school in the US, as well. There is pretty much no avoiding this type of shit in elementary school and the "arm everyone!" answer just won't cut it.

Where I lived we had a cop in school almost every day during elementary school and on staff at my highschool. I doubt its super expensive.

God, this is just horrific. I really wish this would stop. But banning guns simply woulddn't work given that there are already about 300 million of them in the US. In his propoganda film "Bowling for Columbine" spin doctor Michael Moore even admits the media are probably the primary cause for this type of thing. But I'm not for supressing free speech either. I just don't know the answer.

Wish Lanza would have been taken alive so he could face the parents in a courtroom.....before he got the needle

Information is not being generated fast enough for this. I want to know his reasons. I have guesses that are probably close but it is quite obvious a piece of shit like this is a coward. Why not try this at a police station (I'm guessing on his reasons)? Seems he could have gotten closer to the point if he'd done that. Much less loss of life and it would have happened to people who were reasonably prepared for something like that.

Originally posted by dadudemon
(I'm guessing on his reasons)

Let's not do that. Our information on cases like this is distorted by haste on the part of the media. Why deliberately deceive ourselves?

It's been said that his mother was a teacher the the school. He shot her and took some of the pupils with him.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Let's not do that. Our information on cases like this is distorted by haste on the part of the media. Why deliberately deceive ourselves?

Because I don't have to worry about wrong guesses: I am not a professional member of the media. This is a discussion board and we can definitely make guesses, here.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Because I don't have to worry about wrong guesses: I am not a professional member of the media. This is a discussion board and we can definitely make guesses, here.

So you just want to whip yourself into a frenzy? I guess that's a human reaction to tragedy. Why not engage in emotional masturbation with something entirely imaginary, though?

Originally posted by Robtard
Waits for: "If there where more guns and the teachers were armed, this wouldn't have happened".

Edit: May fav response in the responses.

"I am not a Bible thumper by any stretch of the imagination, but this is what happens when we take God out of our society because allowing people in our society to be Christian is so offensive. No one respects human life anymore and we see more and more of this happening as we become more and more detached as a society."

Just has to use a horrific incident as a springboard to push own personal belief of God. Assclown.

He was expressing how he felt, just as you are. What concerns me is that in the midst of this tragedy, you took the time to cherry pick through hundreds of comments to insult someone who believes in something you don't. How does that make you any different than him?

Originally posted by dadudemon
Information is not being generated fast enough for this.

Maybe it's being generated too fast. Maybe information overload and media saturation is contributing to this type of thing. I have a feeling many of these shooters just might be doing this type of thing for their 15 minutes

Originally posted by Grinning Goku
How does that make you any different than him?

I'm not sure if I can express to you how little sense that question makes in context.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I'm not sure if I can express to you how little sense that question makes in context.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
So you just want to whip yourself into a frenzy? I guess that's a human reaction to tragedy. Why not engage in emotional masturbation with something entirely imaginary, though?

Can you explain to me how my comment was "whipping myself into a frenzy"?

Symmetric Chaos, you're just messin' with me, right? 313

Originally posted by Archaeopteryx
Maybe it's being generated too fast. Maybe information overload and media saturation is contributing to this type of thing. I have a feeling many of these shooters just might be doing this type of thing for their 15 minutes

There are at least of a couple of areas in psychology that make* you right, actually.

*I don't know if that is the right word.

Originally posted by Grinning Goku
OK. He hits out at this person for using a message board as a soapbox to voice his personal spiritual beliefs and proceeds to insult them. He used THIS message board to voice his belief regarding the other person's belief. So in my eyes he's doing the same thing he loathes the other person for. Pretty simple, I think.

I understood that, as well: seemed simple to me. However, I love Robby too much to hate on him for doing that. inlove We are probably getting off topic, though.