Multiple deaths, including children, at Connecticut school shooting

An interesting read.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/07/23/six-facts-about-guns-violence-and-gun-control/

 

Alpabet Soup may not believe me, but my motivation for demanding this conversation right now is this: I never want to see this happen again. Ever.

 

YGB, I am not picking a fight. I am trying to talk about an issue. And the idea that people want this NOT to be solved so we can keep having this outrage? That's lunacy.

 

And you can guarantee it never will if we instantly ban guns?

 

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww ...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/14/stocks-of-gun-companies-fall-after-newtown-shooting.html

 

Has anyone compiled a list of all the erroneous media reports so far today?

 

CNN has embarassed themselves today.
The fact that people don't get fired over the mistakes that were made today doesn't make sense. Anyone who posted the picture of the wrong shooter should be canned.

 

No one wants to see this happen again. But demanding that others engage you in a conversation when they are understandably still trying to make sense of what happened is not helping your cause.

 

Really tragic (and sadly illuminating) how some people will try to shift the focus from 20 dead kindergartners to a couple of brain-dead anchors.

 

Cite to the post where I:

1) Call for a ban on guns;
2) Ask for a "guarantee."

The fact that we can't guarantee something won't happen again is not an excuse for inaction.

Condoms do not guarantee one won't get an STD. It's still a good idea to use a condom.

 

In the wake of the Dunblane school shootings in 1996, the UK effectively banned the private ownership of most guns. In 2010, one guy went on a rampage through several towns in northwest England, but that's basically the only such example in what is now nearly 20 years.

What I keep coming back to is the fact that there was only one injury. Even accounting for the grim physics of shooting small children, you have to assume that he was able to fire a tremendous number of shots in a short space of time. And I simply can't see what conceivable reason there is to need to be able to fire shots at the rate allowed by an automatic or semi-automatic weapon.