Gunman shoots in elementary school in Connecticut

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Originally Posted by freein05

They are now reporting 27 killed and 18 of the killed were children. This is so sad. All of the children will suffer from this the rest of their lives. We must stop gun violence. The 2nd amendment is not worth the lives of 18 children.

My the victims rest in peace.

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Me thinks that when that amendment was made we didn't have monsters on the loose killing 18 schoolchildren and nine others.....Something to think about perhaps to those who will disagree. Rob

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Originally Posted by freein05

We must stop gun violence.

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It's not simply a 2nd Ammendment issue. How about we just stop the violence. Period.

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How about we just stop the violence. Period.

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Let's start with the presidential kill list, then after that program is err... terminated, then we can move on to ending the wars ....

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Originally Posted by Gregg

Like every other similar event, this is tragic beyond my ability to even comprehend it. It's time to very seriously and earnestly address WHY this keeps happening. The answer is probably complicated, most likely painful and the cause will be hard to fix. We need to all work together to cure this disease, if that is even possible, rather than continue to debate symptoms. What are we doing, or aren't we doing, that keeps producing people who are disturbed enough to harm others in this way?

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Big Big Big +1 from me on this. I do however suspect the rot at the root cause of this may make many twist and squirm....Rob

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Originally Posted by Gregg

How about we just stop the violence. Period.

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Round of applause from me on this! Rob

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Originally Posted by Mrs-M

I wonder what is going on with our world/society nowadays, where everyone is so angry? People so bent on destroying lives for no reason.

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This is my take, Mrs. M, and I could very well be wrong, as I can't get into the minds of those who commit such acts I see a society in which the money is concentrating into fewer and fewer hands but there is a continued pressure/expectation to be a "winner" and not a "loser" but no real means to get to the side of "winner" for many - I think this leads some to snap. I am however sure there are other reasons, too. Rob

On NBC news an FBI person just said that on average there are 20 mass shooting a year in the US and that is a 20 year average. Yes I know guns don't kill people do. If there were fewer guns in the hands of nuts there would fewer mass killings.

So sorry for these poor children and what their families must be going through...

Just came on the news that the shooter's mother was found dead. They think he shot her first.

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Originally Posted by Gregg

Like every other similar event, this is tragic beyond my ability to even comprehend it. It's time to very seriously and earnestly address WHY this keeps happening. The answer is probably complicated...

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I wish you were right on this Greg, but my opinion is that it's a part of our complicated modern society that will be extremely difficult to unravel, nonetheless resolve. It funny (in a non-humorous way) how any talk like this has completely dropped out of the discussion I'm aware of here in Colorado only a few months after our shooting.