At least 18 kids dead....

Quote from pspr:

This killer used two semi-auto pistols. That is exactly what a Colt 45 is. (Unless you are referring to the beer)

Well ive learnt something, I always thought the Colt 45 was a six round pistol but i dont really know anything about guns, maybe its a Smith and Wesson ?, my point however is these Automatic weapons only contribute to such tragedy’s surely taking them out of circulation would be a start.
 
Quote from pspr:

The spate of mass shootings since the election are all coming out of liberal states. Have liberals gone wild?

As far as gun control, someone mentioned that the entire country was held hostage with some guys on airplanes with box cutters. Guns aren't the problem. The problem is the moral degradation of America spearheaded by liberals.

28 dead including the shooter and his mother. As an adult you realize you could die at any time and it is sad when that happens. But the murder of young children is a crime that has no parallel. The never knew what life is all about, they will never have their chance at the life experience. And, the devastating pain that those close to a child feels with such a loss is unbearable. I wouldn't want to come face to face with God after intentionally taking the life of a child.

For the record Newtown is a pretty Republican town. We voted GOP across the board.
 
A severly twisted and disturbed young man shot to death 20 kindergartners. It wasn't a political act.

Using this horrific incident to indict liberals is a shameful and completely unempathatic response to an unprecedented tragedy.

Some of you are a mere hairsbreadth away from the mentality of the killer.
 
Quote from 377OHMS:

Its heart breaking.

Jared Loughner, the Denver movie theater killer, the Virginia Tech killer, this monster who killed 6 year olds today...

...the mall killers, the school killers, the serial killers and the cults who kill themselves...

What is wrong with our country?

Quote from L-Kabong:

A severly twisted and disturbed young man shot to death 20 kindergartners. It wasn't a political act.

Using this horrific incident to indict liberals is a shameful and completely unempathatic response to an unprecedented tragedy.

Some of you are a mere hairsbreadth away from the mentality of the killer.
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This brutal act of the sick psycho is beyong forgiven !!! I don't have kid but I can truly felt the anguish and sadness of affected families. It's heart breaking! Unfortunately, the likelihood of it happening again is 100%.
 
growing up,mom was home,dad worked ,we played with the neighborhood kids, everyone's mom knew you,they were all home ,then homes ,everything got too expensive,you needed two incomes to survive,everyone started locking doors,neighbors stopped socializing,kids couldn't go out to play,socialize,learn for several years before becoming adults, how to handle society,divorces rose to 50%,75% of them had financial crises,kids at home socialized through computers,no human contact,size of families dropped,single child homes rose,single mothers raising kids rose,welfare paid single mothers per kid,so that became more prevalent. socially impoverished areas with little family value and little education found selling drugs as a lifetime vocation to pay bills,low law enforcement and little other means to support or amuse yourself made drugs even more popular,self medication to solve or deal with your problems is a growing problem,prisons are overcrowded,those with family values either keep to themselves or laud it as cheap perfume to further alienate the chances of it spreading, and it seems that is escalating.. around 1980 corporations who were loyal to lifelong employees, started giving them buyouts and early retirement, the value of the dollar and the devalueing of the human being is growing at a faster pace each day,it's eveident on ET as you see so many people disrespecting each other,something you would never do if you learned to socialize,you would know it's as much of an insult to your self and the other person as it is to society,social responsabilty used to mean working together to make this a great place, all the little efforts each made, made this country great,now social responsability is defined by a credit score..this site couldnt be a better example of the dumbing down of a once great country..viva la dinero
 
Quote from atticus:

Obviously I am not turning my RFB and H&K into the local authorities. We have an incredibly fucked-up value-system in this country that glorifies the first-person shooter.

Homicide rates (per capita) are much lower in countries with gun controls. There is no counter-point to that argument. I own and have taught every adult member of my family to operate and shoot and was a member of the NRA when they were less radical.

If our kids can't be protected while as school then something has to be done, urgently. I think the hiring of trained, plain-clothes ops should be in schools analogous to the Air Marshal service. It remains a lot more difficult to smuggle a gun on a plane than it is to open fire inside a school with hundreds of kids present.

The argument regarding homicide rates in countries with gun controls is a pointless one to make, for two simple reasons. First, I don't believe it is an accurate statement. Second, even if it were true, you cannot put gun control laws in place when there are already several hundred million guns owned by the public. That ship has long sailed. If you were to put laws in place now, only criminals would use guns (which doesn't do anything but handcuff your peace loving populace).
 
Quote from rubibond007:

False:

This is one of the favorite arguments of gun control proponents, and yet the facts show that there is simply no correlation between gun control laws and murder or suicide rates across a wide spectrum of nations and cultures. In Israel and Switzerland, for example, a license to possess guns is available on demand to every law-abiding adult, and guns are easily obtainable in both nations. Both countries also allow widespread carrying of concealed firearms, and yet, admits Dr. Arthur Kellerman, one of the foremost medical advocates of gun control, Switzerland and Israel "have rates of homicide that are low despite rates of home firearm ownership that are at least as high as those in the United States." A comparison of crime rates within Europe reveals no correlation between access to guns and crime.

Second:

The 31 states that have "shall issue" laws allowing private citizens to carry concealed weapons have, on average, a 24 percent lower violent crime rate, a 19 percent lower murder rate and a 39 percent lower robbery rate than states that forbid concealed weapons. In fact, the nine states with the lowest violent crime rates are all right-to-carry states. Remarkably, guns are used for self-defense more than 2 million times a year, three to five times the estimated number of violent crimes committed with guns.


And there you have it.
 
It's now being reported that the gunman had Aspergers Syndrome. So while the debate on gun control rages, we're really talking about a mentally ill adult/kid.

I added the word "kid" because, while he was 20, here was a photo of him 7 years ago:

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