another school shooting in U.S. of A. :(

[race aficionado]

I'm sure I am opening yet another "gun's right" shoot for all - but this reality just plain sucks.



Elementary school shooter in Newtown, Conn. reported dead

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...,4678476.story

They are calling it the second worst school shooting in this countries history.
Virginia Tech in 2007 where 32 people were killed and 17 others injured

[Dave B]

I know how this will end, both here and in real life.Pointless bickering, thread closed; a vague promise to act from the President followed by the square root of sod all. Then it'll all happen again.

[race aficionado]

I know how this will end, both here and in real life.Pointless bickering, thread closed; a vague promise to act from the President followed by the square root of sod all. Then it'll all happen again.

[Knock-on]

Sadly, it is a price America has to pay for the right to own guns and it's for America to decide whether the price is too expensive or not.

That discussion will go on but for now, we should just remember that yet again, a murderer has taken innocent young lives for their own criminally selfish reasons. It's hopelessly sad but we will have another one in 6 months or so.

[Alfa Fan]

American society has deemed that allowing this to happen is acceptable. Why should we get upset about it if they do not?

[Mark]

The best post you have yet made here

[gloomyDAY]

27 people have been killed, and 20 of the killed are children. I'm completely gutted and in shock.

American society has deemed that allowing this to happen is acceptable. Why should we get upset about it if they do not?

You've hit the nail on the head. Nothing has been done in terms of legislation to stop this from happening again. Nothing! The NRA is just too entrenched into the political system and making any move on gun control is almost impossible. Let's list all of the shootings:

- Virginia Tech (two school shootings)
- Aurora, CO (movie theater)
- Oregon (mall shooting)
- Wisconsin (Sikh temple)
- Connecticut (elementary school)

[anthonyvop]

Terrible tragedy.


What needs to be done? Nothing much. Violent crime is down. Has been going down. In fact we in the USA are living in what is probably the safest time in most of our lifetimes.

FBI

So Just keep doing what we are doing.

[Mark]

As much as I'd like to disagree you do need to look at the bigger picture...

[gloomyDAY]

What needs to be done? Nothing much. Violent crime is down. Has been going down. In fact we in the USA are living in what is probably the safest time in most of our lifetimes.

These shooters have mental illnesses, so I think that psychological background checks should be more stringent.