Connecticut school shooting: 18 children among 27 dead

As Dirk has requested several times in this thread... please keep the gun issue out of the equation. Why? Because there is definitely something very fucked up about the people in this country who are 35 years old and younger.

Guns were easier to come by when I was growing up. You all pretty much know how old I am. For those who don't, I'm 56 years old. There was NEVER an incident in my childhood where some kid brought a rifle and pistols to school and massacred people. NEVER! Why? Because the vast majority of kids back then respected the teachers, the principle, the police, and especially their parents. Kids used to get paddled when I was in grade school if you were trying to be the class clown. And yeah, I deserved every one that I got. Also, if there was some kid who was always picking on another, there was usually a fight on the playground after school and the issue was resolved... and most likely the two boys ended up friends.

But with all touchy feely nonsense that the kids are taught today, a two boys can't settle it with a little wrestling and a few scratches and a bloody nose. Now, they are sat down with shrinks at the school and their brains are filled with shit.

I mentioned the 35 years old and younger crowd earlier. Think about this - From the time they were born, they have been taught that abortions are okay. In other words, they are being told that the sanctity of life really has no true meaning. The music they have listened to since they were old enough to understand it, has been filled with garbage about destroying a "BITCHES PUSSY", "Killin' Cops", etc.

They more than likely were raised at an early age in a day-care, instead of their mother, which gives the kids a chance to bond and learn from her through out the day. Instead, some lady who is watching them just so she can make a buck, could give two shits about bonding and or teaching them anything. And then, when they are older and come home from school, they come home to an empty house, and toss some shit in a microwave and proceed to play video games where if you die, you just hit 'reset" and your life is given back to you.

How many kids in the last 35 years actually sit down with their mother, father, siblings, at the table and have their meals together and discuss how their day went? Not many. They come home and toss in some frozen shit into the microwave and grab a soda and start texting or facebooking with faceless "friends"


Ah.. fuck it. I grew up in a different time, where we as kids called everyone who was our parents age, Mr. (insert last name), and Mrs. (insert last name). Especially our teachers. Now days, kids don't do that anymore. I would have gotten a whack on the noggin had i called one of my father's friends - George, or Gene, etc.

Oh well, most in here are so much younger than me, it's no wonder you think I'm weird.

Anyway.... the point I am trying to make is, when I was a kid we respected our parents and our elders. I don't see that happening much anymore. Nut what it REALLY all comes down to is.... THE FAMILY is not what it used to be.

Yet, I get laughed at by some in here who nominate me for asshat of the year because I believe a mother should be home with her children, instead of pushing them off on some day care woman who has not the slightest care to teach the kids or bond with them.

All of what I said is a small picture of what and why all these shootings are taking place.
 
^^^Fuckin guy wants the gun control talk outta here but brings up abortion and the sanctity of life during his trip down memory lane.
 
As Dirk has requested several times in this thread... please keep the gun issue out of the equation. Why? Because there is definitely something very fucked up about the people in this country who are 35 years old and younger.

Guns were easier to come by when I was growing up. You all pretty much know how old I am. For those who don't, I'm 56 years old. There was NEVER an incident in my childhood where some kid brought a rifle and pistols to school and massacred people. NEVER! Why? Because the vast majority of kids back then respected the teachers, the principle, the police, and especially their parents. Kids used to get paddled when I was in grade school if you were trying to be the class clown. And yeah, I deserved every one that I got. Also, if there was some kid who was always picking on another, there was usually a fight on the playground after school and the issue was resolved... and most likely the two boys ended up friends.

But with all touchy feely nonsense that the kids are taught today, a two boys can't settle it with a little wrestling and a few scratches and a bloody nose. Now, they are sat down with shrinks at the school and their brains are filled with shit.

I mentioned the 35 years old and younger crowd earlier. Think about this - From the time they were born, they have been taught that abortions are okay. In other words, they are being told that the sanctity of life really has no true meaning. The music they have listened to since they were old enough to understand it, has been filled with garbage about destroying a "BITCHES PUSSY", "Killin' Cops", etc.

They more than likely were raised at an early age in a day-care, instead of their mother, which gives the kids a chance to bond and learn from her through out the day. Instead, some lady who is watching them just so she can make a buck, could give two shits about bonding and or teaching them anything. And then, when they are older and come home from school, they come home to an empty house, and toss some shit in a microwave and proceed to play video games where if you die, you just hit 'reset" and your life is given back to you.

How many kids in the last 35 years actually sit down with their mother, father, siblings, at the table and have their meals together and discuss how their day went? Not many. They come home and toss in some frozen shit into the microwave and grab a soda and start texting or facebooking with faceless "friends"


Ah.. fuck it. I grew up in a different time, where we as kids called everyone who was our parents age, Mr. (insert last name), and Mrs. (insert last name). Especially our teachers. Now days, kids don't do that anymore. I would have gotten a whack on the noggin had i called one of my father's friends - George, or Gene, etc.

Oh well, most in here are so much younger than me, it's no wonder you think I'm weird.

Anyway.... the point I am trying to make is, when I was a kid we respected our parents and our elders. I don't see that happening much anymore. Nut what it REALLY all comes down to is.... THE FAMILY is not what it used to be.

Yet, I get laughed at by some in here who nominate me for asshat of the year because I believe a mother should be home with her children, instead of pushing them off on some day care woman who has not the slightest care to teach the kids or bond with them.

All of what I said is a small picture of what and why all these shootings are taking place.

Fully agree. My dad raised me to settle scores with fists after school if a quick talk failed. I won some, i lost some. i even got a broken nose once, but never shot.

Shit, half the time, the kid you fought would at least respect you, win or lose. It was more a test to see what you are made of.

Dr Spock and the other nut jobs are stripping us of our human nature. Problem is this though: they haven't got a mechanism for relieving the stress build up. As long as the kid is quiet, the folks are happy. Meanwhile the kid or young person may be building internal anger up, then shit like this happens.

Pure madness. And the gun control advocates started the politicalization of today. They're outside the white house as we speak.
 

maildude

Postal Paranoiac
Argue all day if you want. But just spend a minute and put your head into the head of one of those teachers, who were trying desperately to save those children. You can't. You know what else you can't do? Conceive of a mind that is capable of such acts. The point is we can't. There is little we can do that matters. And a whole lot we can't do. Frustration is a terrible limitation. Despair is even worse. So we respond in other ways. Anger is one of those. So is defensiveness. We want something done. We want to feel better.
 
^^^Fuckin guy wants the gun control talk outta here but brings up abortion and the sanctity of life during his trip down memory lane.

What part of "it's not the guns" that is the problem. It's the fucked up generation of kids who have pulled these mass shootings over the years.

Columbine - Two high school aged kids killed all those kids, then kill themselves.

Virginia Tech - Cho was a Senior, who flipped out and murdered and injured 32

Sandy Hook Elementary School - Twenty-something kills 27.

Today's kids can't say Jesus or God in school, but the teachers can hand out condoms, and teach heterosexual kids all about homosexuality and lesbian lifestyles. Don't ya think that can fuck up a young kids brain at that age? Besides, wtf does learning math, English, history, etc., have to do with teaching kids about "My Two Dads"?
 
Dude, are you having trouble finding a news site with your internet provider?


"-The gunman was armed with a Glock 9mm semi-automatic pistol a Sig Sauer semi-automatic pistol.

-Police also found a semi-automatic .223 caliber rifle inside the gunman's car.

-All three guns were purchased legally and registered to shooters mother."

CBSNews
 
Update....

Gunman, 20, believed to be autistic, killed teacher mom at home before driving to elementary school in her car and shooting TWENTY SIX dead including 20 children


A troubled 20-year-old loner with a history of autistic behavior is the monster behind a horrific shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 people, including 20 children, dead on on Friday.

Adam Lanza shot his mother Nancy, a kindergarten teacher, at the upscale suburban home they shared together and then took three of her guns and drove the Dandy Hook Elementary School about 9.30am.

He used two semi-automatic pistols, a Glock and Sig Sauer, and reportedly wiped out an entire classroom of young children and shot several in a second class before taking his own life.

Witnesses say he Lanza going from room-to-room shooting people after first killing the principal Dawn Hochsprung and psychologist execution-style after they confronted him in the hallway.

Parents who have not been united with their children are assuming the worst. One witness told WCBS: 'Police just told us everyone presumed missing is in the school and they are dead.'


Adam Lanza, 20, shot his teacher mother before driving to her elementary school and shooting 26 people including 20 children


Ryan Lanza is seen being led away from his Hoboken home in New Jersey to be questioned by police over this morning's shooting


Map of area surrounding Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where a gunman killed at least 26 people, 20 of them small children


Students described being ushered from their classrooms hand-in-hand, with their eyes closed, to the safety of a nearby fire station as police converged on the school.

Adam's brother Ryan, 24, who was originally thought to have been the shooter, is being questioned by police after he was arrested at his home in Hoboken, New Jersey.

He was on a bus on his way home from work when he was being named as the gunman and posted on Facebook that it wasn't him.

He told a friend he believed his mentally disabled brother did it. Adam is believed to be autistic.

Another relative told ABC Adam had been 'obviously not well' and Beth Israel, tonight tweeted that her daughter went to school with him and he was 'troubled for a long time'.

Alex Israel spoke to CNN about how she went to school with Adam and she described him as fidgety, and a quiet loner who kept to himself.

She also said he was a highly intelligent student, 'above the rest of us'.

But she said he was never violent.

She tweeted earlier in the day that he was 'crazy'.

The gunman's father Peter Lanza, who is divorced from his wife, lives in Stamford, Connecticut, and declined to comment this evening after police performed a welfare check on him.

Neighbors said he recently remarried.

Mr Lanza learned of the tragic and senseless massacre by reporters who had flocked to his home.

He arrived shortly after police left and asked what the problem was.

The Stamford Connecticut said his expression shifted from patient to surprise to horror.

Newtown was once named one of the safest places to live in America and before this morning, there had been one murder in a decade.

The President addressed a stunned nation five hours after the shooting and openly wept as he spoke of the mindless shooting saying: 'Our hearts are broken today.'

Seldom has a head of state expressed greater public emotion in modern times.

Obama struggled for words, pausing several times as he wiped away tears saying, 'This evening, Michelle and I will...hug our children a little tighter, and we'll tell them that we love them.'

Lanza is believed to have shot himself at the scene, according to the New York Times.

A TROUBLED LONER: EMERGING PORTRAIT OF ADAM LANZA

Ryan Lanza's high school classmates always knew something was different about him.

He almost never spoke in class, but made good grades and was an honors student. And he always seemed profoundly uncomfortable in social situations.

A portrait is emerging of the alleged shooter who killed 26 people and himself during a rampage at the elementary school where his mother taught kindergarten.

It was widely understood that he had mental disabilities - either Asperger syndrome or more severe autism.

A former babysitter told the Washington Post he was 'rambunctious' as a teenager and prone to temper tantrums.

He had to be medicated to control his moods.

Olivia DeVivo, a student at the University of Connecticut who went to high school with Lanza, said that when it emerged that he was suspected of gunning down 20 small children - none of her classmates were surprised.

'They said he always seemed like he was someone who was capable of that because he just didn’t really connect with our high school, and didn’t really connect with our town,' she told the New York Times.

Lanza, 20, lived with his mother Nancy in a quiet, upscale subdivision in Newtown, Connecticut.

Before his alleged rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, he reportedly shot his mother in the face at her home.

He then took her car and three guns registered registered to her and went on a killing spree - starting with her kindergarten class, police say.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...hildren-Connecticut-school.html#ixzz2F62ljoqj
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It's the white-anglo culture of this land. Blacks and Hispanics don't do this. 1 Korean did, tho

Wait, isn't Lanza Italiano??? Deport the Italians!!! Therrr killin errr kidssssss!!!!
 

Rattrap

Doesn't feed trolls and would appreciate it if you
Emphasis added:
This is not the thread for gun control discussion. This is the thread to talk about crazy, nut-job bastards who did this to kids. Gun control is not the issue here, the issue here is crazy, stupid people. Give everyone in the world a gun, if this happens, it isn't because they have a gun, it's because there is something seriously fucking wrong with them.

Keep in mind that I'm very much for strict gun control laws. This just isn't the issue here. These are crazy, hateful people.
Guns and control are an issue, but as dirk says, they are not the issue.

I don't cry very often, but the pictures of these kids being led out of the building, many of them crying and holding on to each other as they walked together... completely heart wrenching. Brought me to tears. Just an unspeakable tragedy. I don't really have the words to talk about it. Nobody should ever have to endure anything like this.
Truly, truly a fucked up situation. One the US seems sadly inclined to repeat over and over and over...

Bottomline, the easier it is to have guns around, the more this kind of shit will continue to happen especially when it's running in the media 24/7 and every suicidal nutjob sees that and decides that if they die they might as well be famous.
I agree with the first point, but for the second, I'm not sure it applies to many of these incidents. Not in this one, certainly, as a later article points out.

It's a damn shame that people are talking about politics when 18 young children have been killed. We don't even know how this bastard acquired the guns he used. Stop using this tragedy as an excuse to babble about political views (Piers Morgan is doing this on Twitter and it makes me sick).
Okay, people. Have a great discussion about gun control. In another thread. On another day.

What is the solution? I beg of you. What is the solution?
I agree that the political talking point discussions occurring over this are stupid. But the conversation needs to be had. More importantly, something needs to be done - and if not now, when? How long is long enough to wait? Because these things happen with an alarming frequency in the US.

Take a look at this list of school shootings: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777958.html. "The following table lists the worldwide mass and school shootings from 1996 to the present. " The list reads like this: US, US, US, US, France, US, US, US, US, Norway, US, Brazil, US, US, US...etc.

Something is seriously wrong with us. And it isn't our guns.


9/11 killed a lot of people because of crazy people armed with sharp weapons in a gun free zone. That is indisputable fact.
This is not only not indisputable, it's false. Your logical equivalency is that just because A and B were both present, A caused B. There is much of this (as well as irrelevantly extreme slippery-slope arguments) in your discussion here. Caution!

It wasn't the box cutters that scared people, it was the fact the hijackers said they had bombs and most people on the plane probably thought this was just a hostage type of situation. They didn't massacre a whole plane with box cutters.
Indeed. Not the weapons, but the fear. A bunch of panicked civilians firing off guns in a pressurized plane cabin would hardly have saved their lives...

...this isn't the only country this kind of thing happens in, and guns aren't the only way people hurt other people.
It just happens here much more often than anywhere else.

I am horrified at the tragedy that happened in Connecticut today but I can not believe how many of you are blaming the GUN instead of the MAN behind the gun!! The gun did not make this man do what he did, he was a deeply disturbed man with obvious emotional issues with his parents.
Update....
It would appear the man was autistic. So here's the problem...the man is crazy. But the actual crazy, where his reality is not the reality the rest of us occupy (really depending on his level of autism - there's quite a big range). How do we blame someone who is not responsible for their actions? Is there someone else to blame, if not the individual? More importantly, as has been said, what the hell do we do about it?

Argue all day if you want. But just spend a minute and put your head into the head of one of those teachers, who were trying desperately to save those children. You can't. You know what else you can't do? Conceive of a mind that is capable of such acts. The point is we can't. There is little we can do that matters. And a whole lot we can't do. Frustration is a terrible limitation. Despair is even worse. So we respond in other ways. Anger is one of those. So is defensiveness. We want something done. We want to feel better.
We want better, indeed. And you're quite right; there's only so far our empathy can stretch, given that we don't occupy the same reality as the fucked up people who do this sort of thing. Some of them could be fueled by a blind rage that isn't so far a stretch to imagine; some might be occupying some fairyland fantasy where they're defending some rainbow kingdom from evil (an unlikely and extreme example, I know, but it illustrates the point). The facts of the matter seem to be that we in the US have a lot of crazy people. Guns simply make the crazy people exponentially more dangerous, but as has been said, guns don't shoot themselves.

What we need to be asking: why do we have so many crazy people?
What are we doing with them, and how can we improve on that?

In Portland, just as an example, there's mentally ill folk everywhere. Most of them are harmless, homeless, and without access to any support or services (because there are none for these sorts). Some, perhaps even more dangerously, do have families who simply don't have the resources to take care of the individual throughout the day (I say potentially more dangerous because these are the crazy individuals who generally have access to weapons, far more than the homeless type). The hospital I was born in in California is another one: it was an asylum before it was a hospital and when they decided to shut down operations the folk there were simply released into the public.

I disagree that there isn't a lot we can do. I think there is. We need to be looking in the right direction first though, and that we're not currently doing.
 
It's funny how everyone scratches their heads lookin for a solution to this. The T-800 said it best when John Connor asked him "We're not gonna make it, are we?"

He replied "Ahv coewahs not. It is in yoah naitcha to destroy wan anothah"
 
Look at that nerd. Do you really think that, if guns are banned, this kind of nerd could have access to guns on the black market ? You must be kiddin' He looks like some guy who would be featuring in The Big Bang Theory !

Banning gun won't take away gun from people who already have one ? At least it would prevent further people to get one. Remeber that the Aurora shooter bought his guns a fews days before the killing, on the internet. Ban guns and he would never have done the shooting for this kind of nerd don't have access to the black market.
 
What part of "it's not the guns" that is the problem. It's the fucked up generation of kids who have pulled these mass shootings over the years.

Columbine - Two high school aged kids killed all those kids, then kill themselves.

Virginia Tech - Cho was a Senior, who flipped out and murdered and injured 32

Sandy Hook Elementary School - Twenty-something kills 27.

Today's kids can't say Jesus or God in school,
Interesting. I'm as hard-core atheist as they come, and mercilessly ridicule anyone who has religious beliefs, all the time.

But... if the fear of God will stop people from wreaking havoc... then I'm all for mandatory parochial education everywhere. Pound it into kids' heads every day that if they sin against Almighty God, then they will suffer extreme unthinkable pain.

If Lanza thought he'd go to hell for doing this, he wouldn't've done it. But he obviously thought that he'd just cease to exist, and not suffer any consequences for this.
 
It's the white-anglo culture of this land. Blacks and Hispanics don't do this. 1 Korean did, tho

Wait, isn't Lanza Italiano??? Deport the Italians!!! Therrr killin errr kidssssss!!!!

This gentleman seems to know the score. The white people need to go, for the good of the rest of the population and to save them from themselves.
 
"-The gunman was armed with a Glock 9mm semi-automatic pistol a Sig Sauer semi-automatic pistol.

-Police also found a semi-automatic .223 caliber rifle inside the gunman's car.

-All three guns were purchased legally and registered to shooters mother."

CBSNews

Another responsible gun owner that let her guns be used in a terrible crime. Like Sam said, it's got to be the lefts fault.
 
Seems like the killer was suffering Asperger syndrome. How can someone with a psychological disorder have access to guns.
Do you really think that, when the founding fathers wrote the Constitution, they wanted crazy people to have guns ? An autist with guns, is that your conception of "A well regulated Militia" ?
 
Gun owner should keep weapons in such a way that no one can take them without permission.
Guns should be banned from every home where there is a person with psychological issues.
 
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