[BREAKING] School Shooting in Conn. at Elementary School

If there was no ****ing gun(s) this ****er would have probably just stab his wife. Time to hang the NRA and make them responsible.

 

You are an idiot.

Now is not the time to discuss that, anyways.

 

Let me guess. You are one of these ****ers who are pro guns?

 

Don't argue with him anyway, he's a ****ing r****d regardless. One of the worst posters on this board.

 

Per the Center for Disease Control, latest figures (2005) show 30,694 firearm deaths (all races, all ages, both sexes) in the United States.


Since a firearm is an inanimate object, it can not be the sole creator/ root cause of a death as it must be handled by a person in order to be fired.

A more accurate description is approximately 16,000 suicides using a firearm Approximately 12,252 murders by firearms 80% of which are caused by felons/career criminals/gang member activities. USDOJ National Gang Threat Assessment annual report 2009

Approximately 600 justifiable defensive shootings by both police and citizens. The remainder in accidental firearms discharges

The nation averages 87 gun deaths each day as a function of gun violence, with an average of 183 injured, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab and the Centers for Disease Control.

 

We have a mutual friend haha.

 

We should take a page out of Japan's gun model...our gun laws suck.

 

Haha, I figured someone here must know him. One of my best friends...grew up with him.

 

Still quoting old statistics

btw suicide statistics don't really seem relevant.

 

No way that's ever going to happen as long as the 2nd Amendment is around.

 

http://gma.yahoo.com/connecticut-sh...-not-well-182011729--abc-news-topstories.html

 

They where running clips of the police putting this guy in a cop car and he just looked dazed. I really feel bad for him and the father too.

Some lady they interviewed said the principle who was killed had 5 kids as well....

 

Yes it is. We haven't discussed better gun control seriously since the 1990s. If not now than when?

We didn't discuss it during the election cycle.

Our society is relatively unique among modern affluent western ones in promoting easy access to firearms and having a super high amount of firearms per capita.

We also appear to be the market leader in mass slaughters like this.

There is no better time to discuss what's an obvious correlation regardless of your politics

 

I'm pro guns and what is the problem? Merica

 

Now is the time to mourn the victims of this tragedy. Yesterday was the time to make a change and talk about gun control. Either way, crazy people and criminals will still get whatever guns they want.

 

Now is the time for both. But mourning does nothing, except for the mourner.

If I just got mowed down by a lunatic with an assault rifle, I'd rather people spend their time talking about how to stop it from happening again, rather than spending their time reassuring each other how upset they are that I was murdered.

If you want to mourn, then mourn. But don't tell people concerned with stopping this kind of senseless violence from reoccurring that they are out of line in doing so.

 

Jesus Christ guys take this crap to the D&D where it belongs.

This is not the thread for that.

 

So basically you are opposed to gun control ergo "now is not the time", oh and here's a few random unsupported, unverifiable assumptions I'm pulling out of my arse that mean we shouldn't have thus foreclosing all discussion.

Unsurprising.

I agree- you shouldn't be having this conversation.

 

What is this the thread for- people to post + and RIP to assuage their guilt/horror, then returning to normal life until the next time so we can do it again.

Its disgusting to me that people think posting on the internet according to proper protocol out of a laughable sense of "respect" as if it means anything to the families whose lives are destroyed ( who are not on clutchfans now) is whats important here.

To me its symtomatic of the collective denial and amnesia that allow this spectacle to be played out repeatedly in this country. Having a serious conversation about our unhealthy culture of gun violence is long overdue

 

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