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Multiple deaths, including children, at Connecticut school shooting

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Uncle.Ruckus, Dec 14, 2012.

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  1. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    NY Post is on top of this. Reporting kid had his brother's ID on him. Also says bronther told cops he hasn't seen kid since 2010 and he was autistic.
     
  2. young-gun11

    young-gun11 Member

    Shooter had autism and Asperger's... Makes for an interesting turn..
     
  3. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Interesting. You read his journal or he told you all this.

    Or ... he had mental issues and knew exactly where his mother would be at exactly what time.

    One thing we know. The other we don't.
     
  4. young-gun11

    young-gun11 Member

    Well, he killed his father. One can only assume he went to the school where his mother worked to kill her. Are you seriously that delusional?
     
  5. dog eat dog world

    dog eat dog world New Member

    I'm going to leave on this.

    We can complain about guns, drugs, abortion, highway robbery.
    Whatever it is. It's society ills.

    Then murder takes ills to a new level.

    Most of us have a intuitive "stop sign" that says no matter how angry we get with our co-workers, parents, anyone....we don't grab a gun and go make a statement with it. It's just not within us.

    I believe that to be a conscience operating within us. And I think we have shifted our course as a society to eliminate the conscience, be it spiritually-generated or otherwise, into a thinking that we're just here, we're just animals making random moves in particular directions.

    Look at it however you want, but it is the soul of a society at risk here and an ongoing battle to determine what motivates such darkness within us.
     
  6. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    We can only ASSUME he did ... what he did?
     
  7. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Good fucking grief, he could have waited until his mother was at home alone too.

    The "gun-free zone" argument is moronic. He was firing an assault-style rifle and was rumored to be in body armor. No teacher with a 9mm would have been able to stop him.
     
  8. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Wait, it's been confirmed he killed his dad? Thought that was still unconfirmed.
     
  9. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    ESPN: Don't tweet the word "Shooter" anymore. Or at least until noon on Sunday.

    http://deadspin.com/5968619/espn-tells-staff-to-stop-tweeting-until-sunday-due-to-connecticut-school-shooting?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
     
  10. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    CNN just reported the mother was killed in her home, not the school.
     
  11. 21

    21 Well-Known Member

    CNN now reporting the mother was found dead in her son's residence (unclear from the report whether that was also where she lived), not at the school where she was a teacher.
     
  12. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Holy shit, CNN reporter just said... "We don't know if the mother was shot before or after the shooting at the school."
     
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