OMG Another school shooting!! :( :( :(

[gryphon]

This is now my facebook status (borrowed from a friend)


You know who deserves a swift kick to their dangly parts? Every single person who wants to politicize the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary shooting just to benefit whatever cause they're backing. Every single person who even thinks about saying anything about the shooting that doesn't entail extending their condolences to the families of the fallen should just shut, the hell, up. Right NOW is NOT the time for insipid debating. Now is NOT the time for grandstanding that guns need to be banned, or everybody should have guns just so they can dispense vigilante justice, or point the blame at video games, or movies, and it certainly isn't a time to prattle on about the Mayan "End of the World Prophecy".
Right now is the time for unity and finding a way to help these families recover (as recovered as they can get). That is the ONLY thing anyone needs to be talking about right now with regards to this tragedy.

[Darth Penguin]

WBC to picket children's funerals..

Less than 48 hours after the Connecticut school shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, which took place on Dec. 14, the Westboro Baptist Church is already making plans to picket. The Westboro Baptist Church is known for picketing and protesting at funerals across the country.

Wonder which tv company will give them time to explain thier views and avoid thier presence at these saddest of sad events..

[Jina]

The kids were in Grade 1 and were shot at least 3 to 11 times, some at close range. This is horrific. I've seen the damage done by 1 shot from a rifle, but multiple shots on 6-7 year old kids is just horrific. I can't imagine the pain the parents must be in.

"A law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity said some of the guns used in the attack may have belonged to Lanza's family. His mother had legally registered four weapons, his father two."

6 weapons??!?!?

[DaveP]

WBC to picket children's funerals..



Wonder which tv company will give them time to explain thier views and avoid thier presence at these saddest of sad events..

Imagine people using tragedies like this to further their ideologies/political agendas. I wonder how such people can sleep at night.

Edit: And as long as we're bringing up Westboro Baptist, they are a testament to the fact that responsible gun owners are indeed responsible. Otherwise their fool heads would have been blown off long ago.

[frugal50]

the apple doesn't fall far from its tree
apparently, the mother was an avid gun enthusiast who often took her boys shooting

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/ny...s.html?hp&_r=0

[snuffaluffagus]

They only made this policy because the security guards were gun owners in real life who had to prove they could handle the situation.

You know what really worries me about this situation? Or the possibility of staff at my son's school carrying weapons? How can I be certain a staff member won't one day snap and kill the very children/people they are supposed to protect?

[DaveP]

You know what really worries me about this situation? Or the possibility of staff at my son's school carrying weapons? How can I be certain a staff member won't one day snap and kill the very children/people they are supposed to protect?

What's to stop an unstable person from bringing in a weapon even if they're prohibited?

I'd rather have a few stable people with weapons and who know how to use them to stop the unstable ones. Rather than everyone being sitting ducks.

[Patty Smyth]

This is now my facebook status (borrowed from a friend)


You know who deserves a swift kick to their dangly parts? Every single person who wants to politicize the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary shooting just to benefit whatever cause they're backing. Every single person who even thinks about saying anything about the shooting that doesn't entail extending their condolences to the families of the fallen should just shut, the hell, up. Right NOW is NOT the time for insipid debating. Now is NOT the time for grandstanding that guns need to be banned, or everybody should have guns just so they can dispense vigilante justice, or point the blame at video games, or movies, and it certainly isn't a time to prattle on about the Mayan "End of the World Prophecy".
Right now is the time for unity and finding a way to help these families recover (as recovered as they can get). That is the ONLY thing anyone needs to be talking about right now with regards to this tragedy.

Well I won't be pinning that on my status that's for sure.

[snuffaluffagus]

What's to stop an unstable person from bringing in a weapon even if they're prohibited?

I'd rather have a few stable people with weapons and who know how to use them to stop the unstable ones. Rather than everyone being sitting ducks.

I see your point, really I do. But Dave, how can you be certain that all gun-carrying staff in a school school are "stable?" That's my greatest fear. I'm thinking, statistically speaking, the chances of one of them snapping are greater than a lunatic coming into my son's school .

[Darth Penguin]

Given how some teachers can bully thier students , I wouldn't put it past a very small few to use the threat of a gun to try and humiliate a student.

[Patty Smyth]

I see your point, really I do. But Dave, how can you be certain that all gun-carrying staff in a school school are "stable?" That's my greatest fear. I'm thinking, statistically speaking, the chances of one of them snapping are greater than a lunatic coming into my son's school .

Geez I can think of a couple of teachers at my son's old school I would not let anywhere near a gun

[DaveP]

Well I won't be pinning that on my status that's for sure.

Why not? It sums up the feelings I have about people making political hay off this pretty well. And we ARE the majority in North America. Most of us just aren't as vocal as the... others.

[Darth Penguin]

There used to be a teacher at my kid's school I wouldn't let near a plastic knife let alone anything capable of killing.

[DaveP]

I see your point, really I do. But Dave, how can you be certain that all gun-carrying staff in a school school are "stable?" That's my greatest fear. I'm thinking, statistically speaking, the chances of one of them snapping are greater than a lunatic coming into my son's school .

And I understand your point. But if a staff member at school goes off their nut, a 'no guns allowed' rule is not going to stop them from bringing one in.

[DaveP]

Given how some teachers can bully thier students , I wouldn't put it past a very small few to use the threat of a gun to try and humiliate a student.

So the problem now is that a teacher might bully a kid with a gun? Like a teacher predisposed to bullying kids can't bully a kid in other ways? They're going to use a gun? Really? And get themselves fired? Are you lacking sleep or something Darth, because you clearly aren't at your best.