Elementary School Children Killed By Gunman in Connecticut

• se-alum

  

  I contend that these types of things are unstoppable.
• tk421

  

  I tend to agree. There is no way that a government can make a population 100% safe. It is a utopian fairtale. Bad things happen, it's tragic but it's the price of not living in a draconian police state. Sure, we could have 100% employment with government agents on every corner of America, all schools, malls, grocery stores, book stores, libraries, etc. all with metal detectors and armed guards. Long list of items that we are not allowed access too. I don't want to live in a country like that.
• KR1245

  

  se-alum;1343218 wrote:I contend that these types of things are unstoppable.

  Agreed
• Midstate01

  

  So my question is, why wasn't she at school then?
• Pick6

  

  Midstate01;1343228 wrote:So my question is, why wasn't she at school then?

  called off? dead?
• Midstate01

  

  Pick6;1343229 wrote:called off? dead?

  
  Maybe... Be interesting to find out
  
  
  Makes no sense at all why he'd kill his mom then go kill her students. I just don't get that at all.
• tk421

  

  it doesn't make sense at all why he would do any of this.
• se-alum

  

  Midstate01;1343230 wrote:Maybe... Be interesting to find out
  
  
  Makes no sense at all why he'd kill his mom then go kill her students. I just don't get that at all.

  Mom didn't give him enough attention, jealous of the attention her students received?
• Ironman92

  

  se-alum;1343238 wrote:Mom didn't give him enough attention, jealous of the attention her students received?

  
  That's my best guess also....but it just still doesn't make any sense.
• gut

  se-alum;1343190 wrote:So apparently he killed his mother at the house, he went to the school for the sole purpose of killing the children. ****ing disgusting.

  To me that angle screams wanting to go down in infamy. Otherwise he's just some nutjob that offed his parents and is quickly forgotten. It's taking revenge on the society that obviously rejected him, and making them feel some of the pain that he felt.
• se-alum

  

  WCPO &#8207;<s>@</s>WCPO BREAKING: Shots fired at Western Hills High School. A basketball game was being played at the time.
  
  In Cincinnati. Hopefully outside and nobody was injured.
• LJ

  

  
• Midstate01

  

  LJ;1343328 wrote:

  
  She's getting absolutely hammered on twitter and she deleted it. What a dumb bitch. Leave these damn kids alone!
• killer_ewok

  

  I can't even process what kind of person it takes to commit such an atrocity. I wouldn't mind pissing on that cocksucker's corpse.
• Ironman92

  

  se-alum;1343312 wrote:WCPO &rlm;<s>@</s>WCPO BREAKING: Shots fired at Western Hills High School. A basketball game was being played at the time.
  
  In Cincinnati. Hopefully outside and nobody was injured.

  
  To me this is directly correlated to all the airtime given to this horrible happening.
• se-alum

  

  Turns out his mother was just a part-time substitute at the school, so that throws my theory out.
• derek bomar

  

  none of this shit makes any sense
• jordo212000

  

  Reading that the shooter seemed to be a little autistic
• jordo212000

  

  Killer was also not a trouble maker, not noticeable, not anti-social and was "just a kid"
• Ironman92

  

  jordo212000;1343416 wrote:Killer was also not a trouble maker, not noticeable, not anti-social and was "just a kid"

  
  According to what people? There are the likely shit heads you might guess and then the quiet angered kid that is a little harder to see. Hard to believe he didn't fit one of those categories.
• jordo212000

  

  Ironman92;1343424 wrote:According to what people? There are the likely shit heads you might guess and then the quiet angered kid that is a little harder to see. Hard to believe he didn't fit one of those categories.

  
  A classmate on CNN
• Ironman92

  

  jordo212000;1343428 wrote:A classmate on CNN

  
  I don't think it would be very common for a high school classmate to think about the troubles of someone that isn't in the group. Was this classmate a close friend?
• jordo212000

  

  Ironman92;1343441 wrote:I don't think it would be very common for a high school classmate to think about the troubles of someone that isn't in the group. Was this classmate a close friend?

  
  No idea. Just repeating what he said
• WebFire

  Jay Leno said they thought about cancelling tonight's show, but decided to go on because they thought people could use a distraction before going to bed.
• James Gatz

  Trying to interpret the motives and actions of an insane person is never going to make sense. People whose brains are functioning properly don't kill random people. Some wires were crossed in the dudes head, he got hold of a deadly weapon, and he used it on his mother and a bunch of random children. There is no motive, just a cause, and the cause is mental illness.