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CBS just reported 27 dead (Original Post) Lex Dec 2012 OP
Anything on the shooter? rocktivity Dec 2012 #1
I'm hearing parent of a student sharp_stick Dec 2012 #10
a divorce in the works is my guess. mopinko Dec 2012 #28
How did he kill that many at once. Lex Dec 2012 #41
Just a guess sharp_stick Dec 2012 #55
I heard this also. HappyMe Dec 2012 #48
CBS is saying there is a 2nd shooter. Lex Dec 2012 #49
Let's hear it for teamwork. rocktivity Dec 2012 #51
"at least" 27 dead says CBS. Lex Dec 2012 #2
Ten of them are reported liberalhistorian Dec 2012 #26
Speechless. I don't know the words to express what I'm feeling...nt SidDithers Dec 2012 #3
same here Lex Dec 2012 #5
OMG, OMG, OMG!! Melinda Dec 2012 #4
How much more will we stand for? Lex Dec 2012 #9
I know...I rarely cry when I hear about shootings deutsey Dec 2012 #18
Holy god. TwilightGardener Dec 2012 #6
No. Chorophyll Dec 2012 #7
hence the offsite location for the parents lapfog_1 Dec 2012 #8
when they said "at least" 27 dead Lex Dec 2012 #14
I heard on the news 14 were children.... boston bean Dec 2012 #11
MSNBC reporting at least 20. sufrommich Dec 2012 #12
They're just babies Tsiyu Dec 2012 #21
It was a K-4 school, they're all babies. Horrific. nt sufrommich Dec 2012 #32
Innocence personified. Lex Dec 2012 #34
Totally agree Tsiyu Dec 2012 #53
MSNBC hasn't confirmed anything except dead shooter ecstatic Dec 2012 #13
MSNBC just had a crawl that said at least sufrommich Dec 2012 #16
Oh fuck deutsey Dec 2012 #15
ABC in NY hasn't confirmed any number of deaths. HappyMe Dec 2012 #17
CBS broke into local programming Lex Dec 2012 #20
ABC confirmed 20 deaths, just now. HappyMe Dec 2012 #24
OMG. Shaking and sobbing. OMG. Care Acutely Dec 2012 #19
This country continues to accept this insanity of guns everywhere. Lex Dec 2012 #25
I don't believe for one second that this liberalhistorian Dec 2012 #36
don't forget there were tons of indians datasuspect Dec 2012 #44
+ 1000 Care Acutely Dec 2012 #59
I am just in absolute shock. Initech Dec 2012 #50
CNN now reporting 20 dead, 10 are children. nt sufrommich Dec 2012 #22
Can barely type a response. EmeraldCityGrl Dec 2012 #23
It is beyond horrific. Lex Dec 2012 #27
What a nightmare! Vinnie From Indy Dec 2012 #29
America died today. I have never been this shaken up. nt Comrade_McKenzie Dec 2012 #30
The school is K-9, so children aged 5-10. RomneyLies Dec 2012 #31
Associated Press: 27 dead, 18 children WilliamPitt Dec 2012 #33
It is hard to even comprehend. Lex Dec 2012 #38
This is awful... Rustycup Dec 2012 #35
Are you fugging serious? malaise Dec 2012 #37
Here in CT on my local ABC affiliate, the school principal and school psychologist are CTyankee Dec 2012 #39
They only had 3 ambulances leave the scene earlier, unless the are useing school as morgue. julian09 Dec 2012 #40
CBS just reconfirmed the number. Lex Dec 2012 #46
These are babies. This country has a lot of soul searching to do. EmeraldCityGrl Dec 2012 #52
jesus fucking christ d_b Dec 2012 #42
I can't stop shaking. I just want to cry. This is horrible. Little Star Dec 2012 #43
Madness. Complete and utter madness. I have no other words. nt. OldDem2012 Dec 2012 #45
Connecticut school shooting: Reports say more than dozen dead struggle4progress Dec 2012 #47
If this doesn't turn the tide . . . Prism Dec 2012 #54
seems unreal Liberal_in_LA Dec 2012 #56
How many more of these horrific events must we suffer through, before the country says ENOUGH? Tarheel_Dem Dec 2012 #57
the cult of gun worship in this country Lex Dec 2012 #58

rocktivity

(44,577 posts)
1. Anything on the shooter?
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:43 PM
Dec 2012

A parent, a student, a staffer, a traveling nut who broke in?

ON EDIT (3:18 p.m. ET):

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 nation’s 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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rocktivity

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
55. Just a guess
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 02:25 PM
Dec 2012

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.

liberalhistorian

(20,819 posts)
26. Ten of them are reported
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:53 PM
Dec 2012

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.

Melinda

(5,465 posts)
4. OMG, OMG, OMG!!
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:44 PM
Dec 2012

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???

lapfog_1

(29,223 posts)
8. hence the offsite location for the parents
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:46 PM
Dec 2012

and the priests and other clergy at that location.

I hope this isn't true... but I'm afraid it is.

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
21. They're just babies
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:50 PM
Dec 2012

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.

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
53. Totally agree
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 02:17 PM
Dec 2012

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.


Care Acutely

(1,370 posts)
19. OMG. Shaking and sobbing. OMG.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:49 PM
Dec 2012

I FUCKING HATE GUNS.... FUCK THE MOTHERFUCKING SECOND AMENDMENT....

Oh GOD, those poor babies, those poor parents, OMG.

Lex

(34,108 posts)
25. This country continues to accept this insanity of guns everywhere.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:51 PM
Dec 2012

And has a mental health crisis too.

liberalhistorian

(20,819 posts)
36. I don't believe for one second that this
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:57 PM
Dec 2012

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)
44. don't forget there were tons of indians
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 02:00 PM
Dec 2012

some friendly, some not so much, others who were manipulated by britain to cause fuckery.

Initech

(100,102 posts)
50. I am just in absolute shock.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 02:07 PM
Dec 2012

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?

Rustycup

(41 posts)
35. This is awful...
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:57 PM
Dec 2012

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.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
39. Here in CT on my local ABC affiliate, the school principal and school psychologist are
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:59 PM
Dec 2012

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...

struggle4progress

(118,338 posts)
47. Connecticut school shooting: Reports say more than dozen dead
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 02:02 PM
Dec 2012

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

Tarheel_Dem

(31,240 posts)
57. How many more of these horrific events must we suffer through, before the country says ENOUGH?
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 02:33 PM
Dec 2012

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?

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