Mr.Monitor
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I don't know; it really does seem like a lot more than usual. I have some family in Connecticut about 20 minutes away from Newtown, I'll have to check in with them ASAP.
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School Shooting at Elementary School in Connecticut [27+ dead including 20+ children]
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I don't know; it really does seem like a lot more than usual. I have some family in Connecticut about 20 minutes away from Newtown, I'll have to check in with them ASAP.
teruterubozu
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The picture of the crying kids being led out by the police makes me sick and extremely sad at the same time.
Ken Masters
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an elementary school, jesus christ
fuck
fuck
One of the gunmen
Takamura-San
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I want to hear the reason why would someone would go to a elem school to hit a target...
This is beyond derranged...
This is beyond derranged...
fluffydelusions
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How is there more than one? Seriously I can understand one nutjob but how do you convince someone else to go along with it? Takes one to know one I suppose =\
Omegasquash
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An adult shooting kids? What the fuck?
Why? I like living a lot and value my own life way more than some randoms.
Probably the target was a teacher. Plus, the news inpact is always huge when kids are involved.
Devolution
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They don't know yet.
Escape Goat
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I think that it goes without saying this will have a profound impact on everyone involved. If my kid was in that school I wouldn't leave his/her side ever again.
Takamura-San
Member
I can presume that there was a target that works at the school.
They are just stupid/deranged enough to go and kill the guy/girl at the school.
Unless they wanted to kill a kid.... which is just ... i don't know.
BlazingDarkness
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How can two adults go and shoot at kids? what is going on America :|
Regulus Tera
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Really sad about this. Hopefully this can end up as cleanly as possible now that fatalities have been confirmed.
If they were my kids yeah.
Ken Masters
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How many nut job shootings have happened this year? so obviously they are everywhere so it's not inconceivable to think one day they would partner up
remember columbine? wasn't that 2 teenagers?
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Vilix
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Wow. Well, I hope you live a very long life.
Omegasquash
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Threads like these aren't the place to question feelings, or to soapbox them...just because many of us here say we'd take a shot for someone, we don't expect others to do it. Probably makes sense to focus more the topic at hand and have discussions later.
Keeping up to speed on the story, and wishing well to those affected.
Dragoon En Regalia
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This is awful. If this leads to preschool shootings in the media's eyepiece, then that would make me very mad.
No, its not even like that.
Children are pretty much defenseless especially in a situation like this and at this age. If an adult wasn't there to try and lead them to safety or tell them what to do they would basically be target practice for a sick fuck like this.
So of course people will be extra worried about kids in a situatiuon like this but that doesn't mean no one cares about the adults.
ANYONE who wants a gun can easily obtain one. ANYONE.
I would attack the shooter before merely standing in front of a barrel. It offers little practical value.
I hope everyone can live a long life, but in lieu of that I'll take just the people closest to me doing so!
yeah unconfirmed rumors are sounding like the principal was the target of an adult gunman. Gunman dead. 2 handguns recovered. Principal and two kids at Danbury hospital. No idea on their condition. And unknown on whether or not there is actually another gunman. (I'm gonna guess there isn't)
Ravensmash
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I do sometimes wonder what it will take for serious debate about gun control, and sadly I don't think an incident like this will change much either :[
Hope the kids (and everyone else caught up in this tragedy) are okay...watching the news now and they're talking about another shooter?
Some guy in camo pants who the police are holding and claimed "it wasn't me"
abstract alien
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Sometimes, inhumane treatment is only the beginning of what someone deserves. I thought I would be more desensitized to hearing about this sort of thing, but I never get used to it.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
well that's that can of worms being opened
Mammoth Jones
Member
You sound ridiculously bitter. Children are considered helpless and among the most vulnerable members of society. It's not that no one care about the teachers and staff.
Reliable information is always scarce and the way modern media works doesn't help that. Remember all those terrorist attacks that turn out to be some lone nutjob? The news feeds itself until solid facts come out.
Takamura-San
Member
Knew it.
Goddamn it. Is not like I would like the target dead, but can they at least try to do it in non-populated areas? Much less a elem school?
el retorno
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I love that song it inspired but its not been the same song after I learned what it was about :-/
everyday math
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CNN reports from a source that a parent saw police escorted a man out of the woods near the school. Wearing camo pants. The man told the parent that it wasn't him.
RurouniZel
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From 98Q local radio station Facebook page.
BattleMonkey
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It's been like that for decades though, and we didn't have constant mass shootings like every few weeks. Something more is involved, something with society? The economy, people wanting to be copy cats?
CornBurrito
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No I really don't think so. The idea that one tragic event will scar someone for life is some Freudian bullshit notion that hasn't been supported by any real evidence.
These kids, with proper care and understanding, will be fine. They are not going to end up broken people like you seem to imply.
Never piss off Christopher Walken then run for president.
Police scanner? aren't those illegal?
Yeah they mentioned this earlier on the police scanner saying two people in a Purple truck wearing ski masks.
I dunno there is a whole site with them on it people post things from it here on gaf anytime something like this goes on I just decided to check it.
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