Massive School Shooting at an Elementary School

[Arani]

I just saw this. Those poor children... May they all rest in peace, this is a horrible horrible tragedy.

An elementary school? Why? just... why? What is our world coming to?

[FlipMode]

Meanwhile in America...

[AdAstrα]

I don't even know what to say about this. Words aren't enough :'(

May those poor souls RIP.

[SimbasMate]

And some people wonder why I hate America sometimes. It's things like these that make me wonder why there are people out there. A guy who shoots children, his own mother and then himself. What the hell is wrong with people these days? Why do people do this? How can ANYONE get this sick?! My mother told me this when I got home from being out in the city. It made me pissed. I wish that someday there will be a way to stop this, because this is just horrible.

[Daenerys]

I heard about this earlier today at my high school. There was an email sent out to all parents, and during our Christmas assembly today our principal made an announcement about the school. Several girls were crying, including me. The man did have a case of a mental disorder, but his family never said it was very bad. This shooting breaks my heart. So many innocent children killed with their entire lives ahead of them. My high school is part of a middle school and elementary school, and the sophomores and freshmen recently went to visit our kindergarteners with Christmas presents for each of them. The entire school, elementary, middle and high, all love the innocent kindergarteners. This incident is so completely and utterly heartbreaking. What a terrible start to Christmas vacation.

And I can't imagine the condition the parents are in. Having their precious children, around five years old, taken away from them at this time. Christmas is supposed to bring light, love, cheer and joy, instead, it brought them grief, tears and sorrow. Those children won't have the joy of Christmas they were looking forward to this year.
I am praying for the families and remaining children. This is a tragedy nearly incomprehensible. </3

[OuRaion]

I can't believe how any human on the planet could shoot his own mother and then children and then himself. And to do such a thing a week and a half away from Christmas, where there is supposed to be joy and family, it is very saddening. My prayers go out to all people effected by this tragedy.
[quote="Justine Bateman"]Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?[/quote]

[TheBlackCatCrossing]

I work with kids. This is disgusting.

[Mozart]

That tragic, but i guess that would be something beyond normal, it is still devastating know that children lost their lives. And I suppose that all this is possible because of the culture, or sale of weapons? Although something tells me that is more for the former.

[ScarsLove]

This has been all over the local radios, new stations, everywhere! It's horrible to think that someone is sick enough to do that to a bunch of innocent children. I might not be one for children but I don't want to see this happen to them. It's horrendous

[DGFone]

TBH, I personally don't think that the children were the targets. I think the shooter had something against his mother, and if he was already going to her school to kill her, might as well shoot some kids as well before the police arrive. Sounds sick, I know, but I won't be surprised if that's what it will end up being as what happened.

And another thing that I know many people here will disagree with: this only makes me think that we need to increase gun ownership, not lessen it. Here are my reasons: The guy clearly came in to kill. No laws would have stopped him acquiring a gun. He went into a school to kill people. You really think some laws saying that he can't have a gun will stop him?

And now here is what really makes me feel bad: while in the school, the gunman had free reign. Before the police arrived, he had no one to oppose him. So if one teacher, trained and authorized to use firearms, would have put up an even half-hearted attempt to stop him, his free reign in the school would have been several limited, and I easily could see this to translating as a lesser death tole. It's not the kind of weapon that kills people, but the person using it:

Give a madman an old single-shot flint-lock, and he will still do more damage than a sane man with a nuke. Give other sane people guns to defend themselves, and the insane man will at least think twice before going all out. And when he does, his abilities will be severely limited.

What needs to be controlled is the quality of the human owning a gun, not the quality of the gun.