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(44,577 posts)A parent, a student, a staffer, a traveling nut who broke in?
A teacher's son clad in black and carrying two guns rampaged through a Connecticut elementary school Friday, killing 20 small children and six adults, including his mother, in the nations second-worst school shooting, law enforcement officials said.
The gunman, identified as Ryan Lanza, 24, was also found dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, a federal law enforcement official said. Lanza's mother is a kindergarten teacher at the hilltop school, and it's inside her classroom where most of the casualties were found...
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sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)but don't know for certain yet.
mopinko
(70,210 posts)just please ja don't let this be another broken warrior.
Lex
(34,108 posts)It just boggles the mind.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)but two semi automatic handguns with extended magazines and perhaps a couple more in his pockets would do it.
Comes into a classroom, closes the door and opens up saving the last one for himself so he doesn't get strung up in the courtyard.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Lex
(34,108 posts)One is dead and one is in custody says CBS.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)rocktivity
Lex
(34,108 posts)Jesus.
liberalhistorian
(20,819 posts)to be children; I think that number will likely climb higher. I can't take this anymore. I can't even think of it right now. I just...........can't.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
just numb
Melinda
(5,465 posts)The poor babies!!!!! The poor families!!! When is it time to talk about gun violence in this country?? How many more must die?? How many more innocents must have their lives ripped away, their families devastated, the indescribable pain live forever and ever!!!
WHAT HAVE WE BECOME, AMERICA???
Lex
(34,108 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)but I'm wiping away tears right now.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)and the priests and other clergy at that location.
I hope this isn't true... but I'm afraid it is.
Lex
(34,108 posts)my heart skipped a beat (I think literally)
boston bean
(36,223 posts)God I hope that is not factual...
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)if it was kindergarteners.
All of those kids and their teachers will live with this nightmare for the rest of their lives. Because some sick fuck had to "prove himself."
Sometimes I do not understand my fellow humans.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Lex
(34,108 posts)God help us.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)from where I sit, they are all babies, and now the survivors are going to have to grow up fast to cope with this horrific terrorism against their school.
And it was no less than terrorism, whether the authorities like that moniker or not.
ecstatic
(32,731 posts)I really hope the other networks are wrong.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)20 dead.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Lex
(34,108 posts)to report the 27. I don't know. I'm just stunned.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Care Acutely
(1,370 posts)I FUCKING HATE GUNS.... FUCK THE MOTHERFUCKING SECOND AMENDMENT....
Oh GOD, those poor babies, those poor parents, OMG.
Lex
(34,108 posts)And has a mental health crisis too.
liberalhistorian
(20,819 posts)is what the founders intended with the 2nd amendment, not for one fucking second (and yes, you prudes who are getting on WillPitt's case for excessive use of the F word, I WILL USE THAT FUCKING WORD AS MUCH AS I FUCKING WANT RIGHT FUCKING NOW. Sometimes there are no other words).
What that amendment REALLY referred to can be surmised in the simple phrase "in order to maintain a well-armed militia". There was NO American military at the time of the Constitution, each state was pretty much on its own and had its own "army" or "miltia". THAT WAS WHAT THEY FUCKING MEANT. They'd be absolutely horrified at what it has become and what its defenders have wrought. Beyond horrified.
datasuspect
(26,591 posts)some friendly, some not so much, others who were manipulated by britain to cause fuckery.
Care Acutely
(1,370 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)I don't know how the NRA can justify this one. If they do I really hope Obama gives the heartless bastards a good ass kicking that is long overdue. I'm tired of guns and I'm absolutely sick of the propaganda. This shit has to stop. 27 lives gone... for what?
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)EmeraldCityGrl
(4,310 posts)We have to do something. I'll do anything to make this stop.
Lex
(34,108 posts)OMG.
Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)n/t
Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)RomneyLies
(3,333 posts)WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Lex
(34,108 posts)My God.
Rustycup
(41 posts)We are suppose to protect our children. I can hear the cold voices of the NRA saying the kids should be armed along with the teachers to protect themselves. One more tragedy that goes without solutions. This comes at a time when my new RTW state of Michigan just passed a law you can carry guns in school.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Fuck the NRA
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)dead and a teacher injured. I guess the rest are kids. This was an elementary school, for chrissakes!
I can only imagine that the teacher, principal and psychologists were trying to talk to the shooter to keep him from shooting the kids when they themselves got gunned down. I don't want to hear from anybody about how horrible our public schools staffing and teachers are so awful. It sounds to me like these professionals died in the line of duty...
julian09
(1,435 posts)Lex
(34,108 posts)I wish it wasn't true. 18 were children.
EmeraldCityGrl
(4,310 posts)d_b
(7,463 posts)....fuck
Little Star
(17,055 posts)OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)NEWTOWN, Conn. An official with knowledge of Connection school shooting tells the Associated Press that 27 people are dead, including 18 children. Many of the shootings took place in a kindergarten classroom, sources told the Hartford Courant. The gunman is reported dead.
One official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is still under way, says the man apparently had two guns.
The shooting was reported at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, in western Connecticut. State police say Newtown police called them at about 9:40 a.m. about the reports.
Newtown is in northern Fairfield County, about 45 miles southwest of Hartford and 80 miles northeast of New York City ...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-connecticut-school-shooting-20121214,0,4678476.story
Prism
(5,815 posts)Then I don't know what we've become.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,240 posts)I mean, WTF? If these sorry ass gun nuts are intent on taking themselves out, why not just do it, and leave innocents the fuck alone?
Lex
(34,108 posts)has got to stop somehow