Elementary School Shooting in CT

Just heard over the radio that the kids were shot "execution" style.

Sickening....just sick

Pray for the families, and the town.

There are reports there was a second shooter, which may suggest something more is at work than another "crazed lone nut" scenario:

I can't even imagine the poor kids and the parents of the kids who Didnt make it out. A whole class of pretty much babies... I have 5 kids and I can barely watch the tv without it really getting to me. May they all rest in peace, everyone who lost their lives out there...


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This is hardly a USA problem so please lets not profile the Country. Some similar recent shootings

March 1996, Britain: A gunman burst into a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland, shot and killed 16 children and their teacher, then killed himself.

April 26, 2002, Germany: In the town of Erfurt in eastern Germany, 19-year-old Robert Steinhauser opened fire after saying he was not going to take a math test. He killed 12 teachers, a secretary, two pupils and a policeman at the Gutenberg Gymnasium, before killing himself.

Sept. 1, 2004, Russia: Three hundred and thirty three hostages, at least 186 of them children, died at School No. 1 in Beslan, Russia. The school was seized by rebels demanding Chechen independence. The deaths occurred during the chaotic storming of the school by Russian forces.

Sept. 23, 2008, Finland: Student Matti Saari opened fire in a vocational school in Kauhajoki in northwestern Finland, killing nine other students and one male staff member before killing himself.

Jan. 23, 2009, Belgium: A man with a white painted face and blackened eyes fatally stabbed two infants and a woman at childcare center in western Belgium.

Jan. 23, 2009, Norway: A policeman shot to death a female teacher and then shot himself in what appeared to be a quarrel between former lovers outside a school in the northern town of Tromsoe. The policeman died of his wounds days later.

March 11, 2009, Germany: A 17-year-old gunman dressed in black combat gear killed more than a dozen people, including nine students and three teachers at the Albertville Realschule school in Winnenden. He fled and later killed himself after a gunbattle with police.

There are problems all over the world and as you can see, even places with strict gun laws aren't immured. How anyone could kill innocent babies is beyond me. Incomprehensible actually.

Only a heartless asshole can do something like this. I hope his soul burns for ever in hell.

blame the bath salts

We live in a mad world ladies and gentlemen.

kvmcable said:

The shooter was in his 20s and I bet from a broken home with a long history of behavioral problems because he never got his ass beat when he was a child.

Sorry for the rant - just a pet peeve of this old man.

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Not necessarily. Maybe he was beat all the time. I'm sure that there are a lot of people in jail who were abused as children. Not all, but I bet it's a lot.

This is so sad and insane. It makes me think of all the school shootings we've had here in Finland. Can't believe these things can happen...

And those were only 5 to 10 years old kids. I am asking Why?

imperial444 said:

And those were only 5 to 10 years old kids. I am asking Why?

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Seriously right! Fucking coward this guy... Ugh, people like this who think it's OK to take someones life from them just makes me dislike this society more and more everyday.

My heart sank when I heard about this massacre,and it is so devastating when kids are involved. Makes you appreciate your life and your surroundings a little more, because you never know when or where death and tragedy will strike next.

This is terrible!
Pray for the families.

Yeah, crazy this is only 10 minutes from my day job. There were a few people who had kids in that school. As of 5:00 no workers lost any children. The company sent out a company wide email. If you don't know someone personally, you know someone who knows someone who has lost a kid here.

It's a small town thought as one of the safest in the Country.

These crazy shooters......it's so disturbing. Shooting innocent adults is horrible, but shooting kindergartners is beyond description.

A lady that works with my wife, kept her daughter home because she was sick - that was her class, the lady was her teacher. Even though her daughter wasn't in school, the mom still fainted and had to be taken to the ER. This is tragedy that we should never have to rationalize let alone explain to a kid.

-Capp

If you are a parent just hug your kids a little tighter tonight! There are no guarantees in life.

this is very sad, saw the news this morning

Reyone said:

It is not being political, it is a fact.
Mass shootings have always tend to happen in the US in recent times...

Honestly, if they decided to ban guns from public use things would be much better.
Just my opinion.


/e: I mean, just tpye mass shooting in google and check the suggestions

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"We will never be able to wipe away evil through rules and law. It has never happened in the history of man".

--Unkown

Let us not discuss gun control today please. We can have this discussion tomorrow and the next day and forever after that, but not today, .......please.

My prayers to the souls of the victims and their affected families!

I feel for the parents and families of the victims. Truly a sad tragic day indeed.

kvmcable said:

This is hardly a USA problem so please lets not profile the Country. Some similar recent shootings

March 1996, Britain: A gunman burst into a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland, shot and killed 16 children and their teacher, then killed himself.

April 26, 2002, Germany: In the town of Erfurt in eastern Germany, 19-year-old Robert Steinhauser opened fire after saying he was not going to take a math test. He killed 12 teachers, a secretary, two pupils and a policeman at the Gutenberg Gymnasium, before killing himself.

Sept. 1, 2004, Russia: Three hundred and thirty three hostages, at least 186 of them children, died at School No. 1 in Beslan, Russia. The school was seized by rebels demanding Chechen independence. The deaths occurred during the chaotic storming of the school by Russian forces.

Sept. 23, 2008, Finland: Student Matti Saari opened fire in a vocational school in Kauhajoki in northwestern Finland, killing nine other students and one male staff member before killing himself.

Jan. 23, 2009, Belgium: A man with a white painted face and blackened eyes fatally stabbed two infants and a woman at childcare center in western Belgium.

Jan. 23, 2009, Norway: A policeman shot to death a female teacher and then shot himself in what appeared to be a quarrel between former lovers outside a school in the northern town of Tromsoe. The policeman died of his wounds days later.

March 11, 2009, Germany: A 17-year-old gunman dressed in black combat gear killed more than a dozen people, including nine students and three teachers at the Albertville Realschule school in Winnenden. He fled and later killed himself after a gunbattle with police.

There are problems all over the world and as you can see, even places with strict gun laws aren't immured. How anyone could kill innocent babies is beyond me. Incomprehensible actually.

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You are right it is not exclusive to the USA but a gun toating society is not a polite society...it just makes us BETTER killers...

Did you know the UK has a higher indecent of violent crime yet the USA has triple (or more) the amounts of homicides or gun related deaths?

Here is some more data-
"Across high-income nations, more guns = more homicide.
We analyzed the relationship between homicide and gun availability
using data from 26 developed countries from the early 1990s. We found
that across developed countries, where guns are more available, there
are more homicides. These results often hold even when the United States
is excluded. - Firearm availability and homicide rates across 26 high income countries. Journal of Trauma. 2000; 49:985-88."
"Case-control studies, ecological time-series and cross-sectional
studies indicate that in homes, cities, states and regions in the US,
where there are more guns, both men and women are at higher risk for
homicide, particularly firearm homicide. - Firearm availability and homicide: A review of the literature. Aggression and Violent Behavior: A Review Journal. 2004; 9:417-40. ""Motorists with guns are more likely to engage in types of road rage (USA)

Over 2,400 licensed drivers responded to questions about their own
aggressive driving in a 2004 national random digit dial survey. We
found that 17% of respondents admitted to making obscene or rude
gestures in the past year, and another 9% admitted to aggressively
following too closely. Males, young adults, binge drinkers, those ever
arrested for a non-traffic violation, and motorists who had been in a
vehicle in which there was a gun, were more likely to engage in such
forms of road rage.
- Is an armed society a polite society? Guns and road rage. Accident Analysis and Prevention. 2006; 38:687-95."
"Across high income countries more guns = more female homicide deaths.

We analyzed the relationship between gun availability and homicides
of women with data from 25 high income countries. Across developed
nations, where gun are more available, there are more homicides of
women. The United States has the most firearms and U.S. women have far
more likely to be homicide victims than women in other developed
countries. - Firearm availability and female homicide victimization rates across 25 populous high-income countries. Journal of the American Medical Women's Association. 2002; 57:100-04."
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/hicrc/firearms-research/