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Connecticut School Shooting

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FCollinsBuckeye;2277611; said:
I dread the saturation coverage the asshole who perpetrated this will get. Fuck this.
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I wish all news organizations would refuse to name the killers in mass killings such as this. If this kid knew he was not going to become famous, maybe he just kills himself.
 
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The Onion delivers, as per usual.

WASHINGTON?Following the fatal shooting this morning at a Connecticut elementary school that left at least 27 dead, including 20 small children, sources across the nation shook their heads, stifled a sob in their voices, and reported [censored] everything. Just [censored] it all to hell.

All of it, sources added.

?I?m sorry, but [censored] it, I can?t handle this?I just can?t handle it anymore,? said Deborah McEllis, who added that ?no, no, no, no, no, this isn?t happening, this can?t be real.? ?Seriously, what the hell is this? What?s even going on anymore? Why do things like this keep happening??
Continued McEllis, before covering her face with her hands, ?Why??

Despairing sources confirmed that the gunman, armed with a semiautomatic assault rifle?a [censored]ing combat rifle, Jesus?walked into a classroom full of goddamned children where his mother was a teacher and, good God, if this is what the world is becoming, then how about we just pack it in and [censored]ing give up, because this is no way to live.

I mean, honestly, all 315 million Americans confirmed.
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Americans reported feelings of overwhelming disgust with whatever abhorrent bastard did this and with the world at large for ever allowing it to happen, as well as with politicians, with the NRA, and above all with their own pathetic goddamn selves, sitting in front of a [censored]ing computer instead of doing [censored]ing anything to help anyone?Christ, as if that were even [censored]ing possible, as if anyone could change what happened, as if the same [censored]ing bull[Mark May] isn?t going to keep happening again and again and [censored]ing again before people finally decide it?s time to change the way we live, so what?s the point? What the hell is the goddamned point?

"I..." said Tom Miller, 27, after reading an article about the tragedy online.

"I just..."

"..." he added.

At press time - screw it, there's nothing else to say.
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dav713;2277620; said:
I wish all news organizations would refuse to name the killers in mass killings such as this. If this kid knew he was not going to become famous, maybe he just kills himself.
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Especially when they may have gotten the guy's name and Facebook page wrong. It just seems in the rush to be the first to have the info, nobody vets anything anymore.
 
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Just immensely sad. For the victims' families, for the children who survived, for relatives of the shooter, for the entire town where this happened.

It's hard to find any meaning in this. Prayers going out to all the innocents in this whole mess.

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My oldest just finished his 1st semester at OSU. My youngest is in 10th grade. In February, 3 high school students in Chardon, Ohio, a town about 10 miles from us, were killed by a classmate who shot them in school, in the cafeteria. Having sons in that same age group, and that tragedy being close to home, had it hit closer to me than maybe it would others.

Today's news hit me much, much harder than what happened earlier in the year at Chardon even though I don't have children in that age group. But I do have children and as such, I cannot imagine what those parents, grandparents, and siblings are going through right now. I sat on my couch earlier watching the story unfold. I thought I would get the story, shake my head at what is wrong with people, and continue on with my day. That didn't happen as this story is so powerfully sad, so tragic, so emotional. I watched much longer than I thought I would. And I wept.

I have no idea how the president made it through that short speech. No way I could have.

I have seen some reporters get choked up trying to give a report. I have heard that many reporters off camera are being affected by this. Saw the state police officer in charge in Newtown say that the first responders are also receiving counseling due to the horrific nature of what they have seen....a teacher and her entire kindergarten class have been killed....

Not to diminish the other attacks that have happened in this country since 1999 (sadly too many to rattle off), but this one seems like it may have hit the country a little harder than others....it seems that collectively we have been rocked to the core.

My thoughts are with the families of all of the victims in Newtown.
 
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buckiprof;2277651; said:
My oldest just finished his 1st semester at OSU. My youngest is in 10th grade. In February, 3 high school students in Chardon, Ohio, a town about 10 miles from us, were killed by a classmate who shot them in school, in the cafeteria. Having sons in that same age group, and that tragedy being close to home, had it hit closer to me than maybe it would others.

Today's news hit me much, much harder than what happened earlier in the year at Chardon even though I don't have children in that age group. But I do have children and as such, I cannot imagine what those parents, grandparents, and siblings are going through right now. I sat on my couch earlier watching the story unfold. I thought I would get the story, shake my head at what is wrong with people, and continue on with my day. That didn't happen as this story is so powerfully sad, so tragic, so emotional. I watched much longer than I thought I would. And I wept.

I have no idea how the president made it through that short speech. No way I could have.

I have seen some reporters get choked up trying to give a report. I have heard that many reporters off camera are being affected by this. Saw the state police officer in charge in Newtown say that the first responders are also receiving counseling due to the horrific nature of what they have seen....a teacher and her entire kindergarten class have been killed....

Not to diminish the other attacks that have happened in this country since 1999 (sadly too many to rattle off), but this one seems like it may have hit the country a little harder than others....it seems that collectively we have been rocked to the core.

My thoughts are with the families of all of the victims in Newtown.
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I think this one will hurt more...and for longer...because of the circumstances. What I mean is that this is not some high school student who was bullied and took it out on his fellow classmates, horrible as that is when this happens...this was an adult who shot up a schoolroom full of wide-eyed young children under the age of 10. There is no way, zero way, to wrap you hands around that. None. That is what will make this one stand out forever.
 
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Agree with other posters about this one hitting harder than other tragedies of the same nature. Tonight I feel as shocked,stunned,saddened,helpless and angry as I did on 9/11. I don't think any news story has made me shed tears since that horrible day. Just very hard to believe this actually happened.
I think it's time to pick up the phone, call my kids and grandkids, and just tell them how much I love them.
 
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FCollinsBuckeye;2277656; said:
I hate that I'm about to type this, but...

It'll stand out only until some other mentally deranged asshole with automatic weapons or a homemade bomb decides he wants to go bigger.

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I understand your point. Mine was just more that, for example, everyone now still compares school shootings and shootings in general to Columbine, which still comes back to the national debate and is in the national psyche periodically (it is, I guess, part of the American vernacular...mention "Columbine" and that's what most people will associate it with first)...whereas the shooting in, for example, Jonesboro is rarely ever mentioned anymore, if ever, and it's like it almost never happened. But it was no less tragic. This one I think will join Columbine as one that gets mentioned whenever an act like this is perpetrated in the future. But you're right, every time we think it's as bad as it gets, it gets worse...so it shall be again, I'm sure.
 
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Bucklion;2277663; said:
This one I think will join Columbine as one that gets mentioned whenever an act like this is perpetrated in the future. But you're right, every time we think it's as bad as it gets, it gets worse...so it shall be again, I'm sure.
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Yep, I agree.

I mean - kindergarteners. Kindergarteners for fuck's sake.

I can't wait to pick up my girl from preschool today. I'm leaving early.
 
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