Elementary school, K through 4th grade. At least 26 dead not including the shooter who is also dead. 18 children dead. Shooting mostly in a kindergarden room... I know news is subject to change but this is horrifying. I don't know how to process this.
 
Newtown, CT. Fairfield county. I hope your family and friends are safe.
 
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listening right now

sad very sad

Terrible.

They just said that an entire kindergarden class is "unaccounted" for. This is unthinkable. They said they may have someone else in custody. I cannot wrap my mind around this.

Horrible. Sadly, it's not guns that cause these incidents. It's the sub-human mutants which society is creating. Gun ownership has been rife in America for hundreds of years, yet these mass shootings appear to have exploded over the last 20 years or so. So there is obviously something going on at a social/psychological level. 

Even if you managed to eradicate the sale and manufacture of guns in America (which wouldn't make a difference anyway because they'd just start smuggling them from abroad - see: the War On Drugs), then these mutants would find some other way to kill en masse. Remember these are all planned killings. Without guns, they'd walk into a classroom and throw some home made bombs around. Or they'd fill one of those pesticide sprayers with gasoline, spray the kids and set fire to them (like that mutant in New York who set fire to the old lady in the elevator). 

You have to look at the social reasons for these incidents. Something in society is breeding a larger proportion of sub-human mutants than there were just a few decades ago. I have my own theories but it would be against the terms and conditions of this site to post them!

There's been a rise in this kind of violence lately. I can only imagine it's a either the holidays are driving people over the edge with the economy the way it is, or it's those lunatics that actually believe the 21st is it and they are carrying out their sick fantasies.

No matter which it is, or whatever the reason, there's no excuse.

I have a gut feeling we haven't seen the last of this kind of thing.

I can't even imagine a entire classroom full of K's being wiped out. It's not something my mind can wrap itself around.

This is why I don't turn on the TV anymore ... I heard about it first here.

Its not sad. It is sick. It is repugnant. It shows how corrupt the American soul is. Yes their are social problems, but the biggest one is guns. I will not engage in further debate about gun control except to say that all arguments supporting the right to own guns are either delusional, grossly inaccurate, or outright lies (and no its not just the last twenty years). Disgusting. Yes, I am angry.

foxwolfen


Its not sad. It is sick. It is repugnant. It shows how corrupt the American soul is. Yes their are social problems, but the biggest one is guns. I will not engage in further debate about gun control except to say that all arguments supporting the right to own guns are either delusional, grossly inaccurate, or outright lies (and no its not just the last twenty years). Disgusting. Yes, I am angry.

I guess you're refering to all those millions of us Americans who are sickened, saddened and horrifed by this tragedy.  Yea, we're a pretty corrupted soul bunch of sorry asses all right.  Thanks for broad brushin us there, ol stick.

 Sharke- I totally agree. Foxwolfen-I am as disgusted and angry as anyone. It is truly a sad state of affairs when young innocent children are killed for no reason.

 I don't think this is the time for a political discourse over guns but rather a time to look more deeply into what motivates a person to commit violence on innocent children irregardless of the methods used.

 Not sure if you remember the Nickle Mine shootings several years back. It happened less than 2 miles from my house.What seemed like a totally normal common salt of the earth guy just decided to kill Amish school children.Sad...really sad. Believe it or not the community has really recovered well since then.

  I think something deeper is up here. We as a society need to get to the bottom of it.

 Being globally connected has some real advantages and some real disadvantages. It means that someone evil who is a few bricks shy of a load can learn that killing people is one of the most attention getting things they can do.
 
It means we all know about it right away.......Not necessarily always a good thing. Of all the millions of actions taking place on this planet right now both good and bad this happens to be the one thing at this moment on the news attracting all the attention. Some sicko who has chosen probably the most evil way a person can leave this world.The families deserve sympathy and loving attention, but this wack job should be dumped off the side of a cliff and watched rot.