Multiple deaths, including children, at Connecticut school shooting

You don't think our gang-bangers who have guns at their beckon call wouldn't do the same things the drug cartels do, ESPECIALLY knowing the people they were bullying had nothing they could defend themselves with?

 

I don't know. I feel like people will put up with a lot of stuff. They won't readily put up with 18 kindergartners being gunned down. That's beyond the pale in a way even Columbine was not.

 

I don't know. That's why I want evidence.

 

Guns are not illegal in Mexico.

 

I'm not necessarily against stricter gun laws and better ways of containing them, but I can't say I am for making guns illegal.

Seriously? How about this for evidence: all but ONE shooting I can recall has taken place in a gun-free zone (such as a school). He knew nobody there would be able to stop him before he did what he went there to do.

 

I am not a parent and this tragedy has brought me to tears. I am happy to have a President whose first reaction is one of grief and empathy.

 

Is that why he did it? Or did he do it because that's where the people he wanted to kill were?

 

This state police spokesman is pretty good.

 

That was precisely the argument in this month's Atlantic piece.

 

This. The relevant comparison is to other first world developed nations, not a third world narco state. And, amongst the first word developed nations, we are by far the most violent. Others in Europe and Japan, with stricter gun laws, have a small fraction of our mindless violence.

Good god, if this one isn't a final straw triggering real gun law debate, I don't think anything ever will be. Not that all shooting sprees aren't evil, but it takes an extra special brand of evil to target an elementary school. God almighty.

 

YES!! THAT IS PRECISELY WHY HE DID IT!!!! Unless he had it out for 20 kindergardeners!! He was there to kill his mother. He could have waited until she was elsewhere, but he didn't because he knew nobody could stop him.

WAKE UP, TSP!

Edit: Sorry, Dick.

 

Gee, I've been getting wingnut emails 4 times a day for 4 years shreiking the M.N. was coming to take our guns.