School shooting in Newtown, CT

[MissKitty]

The media pisses me off. They need to stop interviewing these kids. I mean seriously. They've been through something highly traumatic and most are still in shock and you can see it in their body language yet the reporters are hounding them in the hopes of a good sound bite.

A man in his 20's open fired in a school where the student population was just kindergarten through fourth grade. He killed the principal, the school psychologist. Approx 30 people dead with 18-20 of them being children.

For those in other countries, should be on the front page: http://www.cnn.com/

Families should be able to send their kids to school without fearing they won't come home. 

[The Member Formerly Known As Sophist]

My mother called me earlier to tell me. Really horrific.

I mean, life is life and it's horrific (or should be) regardless of the age of the victims. But hurting kids or animals... I don't know... More emotional.

Hunting riffles aside, are guns really that necessary for the general populace??

[Peter]

Seems there's a mass shooting every other week somewhere in the US.  There was the Portland mall shooting just a few days ago.

[Natalia Evans]

Great two shootings in one week. One here at the local mall and now the school one in CT. But only two were shot dead at the mall and one left in critical condition and the shooter pulled the gun on himself. But this one is worse.

[Peter]

Great two shootings in one week. One here at the local mall and now the school one in CT. But only two were shot dead at the mall and one left in critical condition and the shooter pulled the gun on himself. But this one is worse.

I give the school shooter 8/10 for a solid performance with a high body count and maximum emotional impact.  The mall shooter only deserves 2/10.

[MissKitty]

He's a coward. He killed his brother first. He killed his mother at the school (she was the kindergarten teacher) and most of the kids killed were in her class.

[Parts]

Newtown is a sleepy little place I have done lots of work there and I have even worked on the road the mother lived on. Not the place you would expect this sort of thing but it can happen anyplace I guess.  Already heard on one news outlet that he was the quiet type let's hope it does not go down that road

[MissKitty]

I was thinking the same, Parts 

[Pyraxis]

Me three

["couldbecousin"]

  These mass killings so often end in the shooter's death that I reckon most of them are
  suicide missions.  I despise suicides who take others with them.  If you want to off
  yourself, don't drag anyone else into it. 

[Icequeen]

Newtown is a sleepy little place I have done lots of work there and I have even worked on the road the mother lived on. Not the place you would expect this sort of thing but it can happen anyplace I guess.  Already heard on one news outlet that he was the quiet type let's hope it does not go down that road

Too late...

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/14/Adam-Lanza-Asperger

["couldbecousin"]

Newtown is a sleepy little place I have done lots of work there and I have even worked on the road the mother lived on. Not the place you would expect this sort of thing but it can happen anyplace I guess.  Already heard on one news outlet that he was the quiet type let's hope it does not go down that road

Too late...

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/14/Adam-Lanza-Asperger

  Comment  by  "PAHOLDOUT" :   "They (aspies) may not be violent but they can have the
   emotional attachment of a sociopath."  Here we go.  I hope somebody quickly identifies
   the  *other*  personality disorder this kid is said to have had.

[Icequeen]

I feel awful for these parents...I can't even begin to imagine the pain  , but I also feel bad for the brother.

The media first id's him as the shooter and posts his facebook page for the world to find and vent their wrath on, then he finds out his mother's dead, and his brother is the killer, and also dead.

They're saying his brother had his id on him which caused the mix up.

["couldbecousin"]

Newtown is a sleepy little place I have done lots of work there and I have even worked on the road the mother lived on. Not the place you would expect this sort of thing but it can happen anyplace I guess.  Already heard on one news outlet that he was the quiet type let's hope it does not go down that road

Too late...

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/14/Adam-Lanza-Asperger

  Comment  by  "PAHOLDOUT" :   "They (aspies) may not be violent but they can have the
   emotional attachment of a sociopath."  Here we go.  I hope somebody quickly identifies
   the  *other*  personality disorder this kid is said to have had.

  Of course, whatever disorder it is, the people who have it won't appreciate being
   lumped in with a mass murderer any more than we appreciate it. 

[TA]

Of for fuck's sake, the sociopaths need to take a day off.