Why is it when anything like this comes up people get defensive about gun ownership.  The fact that bullets coming out of one of those things doesn't get much resistance from a 5 year olds skull is merely incidental.
 
The major thing here is it is a f***ing tragedy that affects all humanity from the perpetrator the victims their families and every human being in-between.
 
It isn't the time for tribunals, for now we can only mourn.

Personally, I think violent video games have contributed more to this than guns.  Guns have been around for 100's of years.  This is pure evil.  A desensitation to the value of human life.  This kind of evil would use what ever it could to destroy human life.  We never use to think of a commercial airliner as an instrument to kill thousands, but is also a tool for distruction. We need to figure out what in society is causing people to become these monsters and focus less on what object or tool is used to do the killing.  Evil will find a way to do evil.

I am absolutely heartbroken for these families. I cannot begin to imagine what they will be going through but I can grieve with them, I cannot do otherwise.
I don't know how the people on TV can talk about it without breaking down. I couldn't. I wish there was something I could do but I know there is nothing that anyone can do. There will just be small empty beds and I just don't know how to think about this.

I do know that this is was an horrendously evil person and the true face of evil was on display.

J

Don't ask for whom the bell tolls....
 
I just feel like crying for now.

Please guys, no more gun arguments.

I still remember exactly where I was, and who I was talking to when the news about the Dunblane massacre (in Scotland) happened.

The same thing happened in Norway recently, these things have nothing to do with gun laws or the US. This is a tragedy beyond anything we can rationalize here.

I'm sick to my stomach.

The culture in America is changing rapidly...and not for the better.  Violent TV, reality TV, lack of parenting, violent video games, economic woes, our value system, lack of morals, rampant narcissism, not paying attention, what we accept as "normal behavior", and deteriorating educational standards (amongst a bunch of other factors) all are contributing America's decline... in my opinion.

Maybe 12/21/2012 (the end of the world) is not a bad thing.

tbosco


The culture in America is changing rapidly...and not for the better.  Violent TV, reality TV, lack of parenting, violent video games, economic woes, our value system, lack of morals, rampant narcissism, not paying attention, what we accept as "normal behavior", and deteriorating educational standards (amongst a bunch of other factors) all are contributing America's decline... in my opinion. 

Afraid I have to agree.   I don't want to agree.  Unfortunately the case is, "deteriorating educational standards, and lack of morals, and everything you said," and I simply have no choice, but to agree.

I'm very upset today.  My heart goes out, to all who are directly affected by this.

I own several guns, and not once in all the years I've owned them did I ever get the slightest notion of killing someone.

Of all the screaming matches, and bloody lips I received from my x-wife, I never once thought of hitting her back, or shooting her, or stabbing her, or anything like that.

The point is, and I shouldn't have shared that, but I'm kind of emotional right now, I'm still sickened by what I've read ... the point is ... if you are going to pave a path of devastation like this, you're going to do it with whatever weapon you can find. A shovel, knife, home made bomb, driving a car in the classroom, taking them hostage and slowly doing your thing.

To sit here and get on your soap box about your personal agenda of gun control and insult 314 + million people living in The United States who are sickened and heartbroken over this, not to mention the families of those involved, well, please, drop dead. You're worthless. And blocked.

Unthinkable.

It hurts. Numbing myself is the only way I can deal with it . ...sorta