This President and the entire U.S. Congress needs to stop sucking the ass of the NRA and gun rights lobbyists, grown a damn backbone, tell these people who thinks it's just fine to walk everywhere with an illegal weapon to go straight to hell.

No one...NO ONE...should have to bury their loved one or child after sending them to school. No one.

Yes, he's responsible; however, it would be wrong of us to demonize the shooter, write him off as a monster unworthy of anyone's sympathy or compassion, and then leave it at that. Obviously, some dark, emotional, and ultimately uncontrollable forces pushed him to do what most never would dream of under "normal" circumstances; ergo, in his own, sad way, I see him as much of a victim in all this as the schoolchildren who became the unfortunate targets of his struggle.

I also think it's wrong for us to assume what lead to this until evidence/facts come into play. Right now, the only thing known for a fact is that he (or by committee) shot multiple children to death.

Is it a simple case of his parents, the healthcare sector, the educational system, and other outliers letting him down, or just that he hid his inner turmoil well to the point where no one suspected anything was wrong with him? After all, people deemed "normal" by society can be driven to the point of no return too, and it doesn't necessarily have to be a gradual process.

I mean, if soap operas teach us anything, it's that we need to understand the victimizer as well as the victim. Otherwise, we shut ourselves off completely to the human condition.

But then again, soaps often teach us that the aggressor is the real victim and those hurt by him/her are unworthy of any compassion.

Edited December 14, 201213 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

The shooter's brother found out about this on FB, wow. I feel for him, I really do

Whenever I buy cold medicine, I have to show my ID and give a signature. Yet, if I wanted a gun, I could just buy it, no questions asked. Does that even sound remotely sensible? The laws need to be restructured to keep guns out of the wrong hands.

The shooter's brother found out about this on FB, wow. I feel for him, I really do

Let's hope the public is not damning him to hell for mere biological association.

Let's hope the public is not damning him to hell for mere biological association.

THey sure are, there are FB pages already set up, something like he needs to die, even after it was corrected, it didn't seem to matter

Not surprised.

Why do the media reports stuff before it is confirm? (misidentify the shooter)

Why are the media interviewing the children?

A man in China knife and injured 22 children today

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/14/chinese-children-knife-primary-school

The world is a mess up place

Whenever I buy cold medicine, I have to show my ID and give a signature. Yet, if I wanted a gun, I could just buy it, no questions asked. Does that even sound remotely sensible? The laws need to be restructured to keep guns out of the wrong hands.

There is no such thing as the right hands. The right hands = even if one out of one million gun buyers turns out to be nuts that person can be the one to kill school children. I know conservatives view gun ownership as the be all and end all of human existence, but if I had to choose between nobody having guns or 20 kids living, I vote for the kids. This bogus protestations of "I have an uzi to hunt" are just that: bogus. It's 2012, go to the supermarket.

no private party needs automic weapons, ever. They should be banned

The shooter was actually Adam Lanza, 20, the younger brother of Ryan, 24 (who knew nothing about it until told).

I posted this in the Batman massacre thread this summer

I feel bad for the community and the individuals. Society though is another story. After the Giffords incident not a single gun control law was passed. When society greets this incident with equal indifference and a tolerance for murderers buying guns in aisle 4 of their local convenience store or wherever one buys these things, society will only have itself to blame when it happens again.

WOW very telling

http://twitter.yfrog.com/ochyactjj

WOW very telling

http://twitter.yfrog.com/ochyactjj

That's always been the case for the most part. But you know America knows better. Like we always do.

My thoughts and prayers out to the families of those taken today.

And its probably the first time I've seen the president actually allow real emotion and sadness permeate his public persona.

There is no such thing as the right hands. The right hands = even if one out of one million gun buyers turns out to be nuts that person can be the one to kill school children. I know conservatives view gun ownership as the be all and end all of human existence, but if I had to choose between nobody having guns or 20 kids living, I vote for the kids. This bogus protestations of "I have an uzi to hunt" are just that: bogus. It's 2012, go to the supermarket.

Assault weapons were banned, but the previous administration let the ban lapse. Banning all guns isn't the answer, since that would only create a black market that would be as bad as the drug world and create more problems. Guns are going to be a part of our society rather they are legal or not, what there needs to be is stricter regulations on who to get a gun and a more concerted effort on getting illegal guns off the street. That is easier said than done, though.