20 children, 6 adults killed at Conn. school shooting

[Godfather]

Well, there are many stages of Asperger's I have it and so does my youngest daughter.

Nobody is saying it's his asperger's that caused this and not some form of mental illness I hope.

[Lambchop]

His brother said he had a personality disorder and that makes sense because the mental health experts are saying that there is no link between Asperger's and violence.

[Leefro]

I thought he was autistic

[Godfather]

I thought he was autistic

Asperger is basically a term for mild autism, it's in the same spectrum. Some want to phase the term 'Asperger' out and just call it a degree of autism. Either way, like Lambchop said, it's not linked to violence. I've got a cousin who has Asperger syndrome and he's just about as likely to be violent because of that as he is because of his color blindness...

The news won't shut the fuck up about gun control, politics, video games and on social media even atheism, causing this shooting. As far as I'm concerned, access to mental care is the biggest issue That's just my two cents... but it feels inappropriate to point fingers right now.

[Hal-9000]

from Morgan Freeman's quote "....but do you know the name of a single victim of Columbine? "

Liberal anti gun guy or not, he makes a valid point that we all should recognize. I'm a liberal anti gun guy, we all feel the horror and senselessness of the act regardless of gun control beliefs.

[Hal-9000]

I still don't believe in the idea of having civilians armed but just once I'd like to hear that during a mass shooting like this, some civilian has the presence of mind and the wherewithal to draw his weapon and stop one of these piece of shit maniacs, reducing the death toll.I'm not talking about a one on one liquor store robbery where the proprietor shoots the crook, I'm talking about the restaurant/school/movie theater/mall rampages.

[Godfather]

I still don't believe in the idea of having civilians armed but just once I'd like to hear that during a mass shooting like this, some civilian has the presence of mind and the wherewithal to draw his weapon and stop one of these piece of shit maniacs, reducing the death toll.I'm not talking about a one on one liquor store robbery where the proprietor shoots the crook, I'm talking about the restaurant/school/movie theater/mall rampages.

A guy with a concealed carry permit almost got the guy in the recent Oregon mall shooting, but didn't take the shot because it was clean.


Side note, both that shooting and this one involved stolen weapons in areas with high levels of gun control.

[Hal-9000]

I read an account of Columbine...minute by minute. The author makes such a strong point and I'm paraphrasing " By the time we realized what was actually happening, 4 people were lying in pools of blood. We thought it was a joke at first..."

[Teh One Who Knocks]

MORGAN FREEMAN ON THE SHOOTINGS YESTERDAY:

I'm honestly surprised at his response.

So was I. I had thought he was a liberal anti gun guy. This, if he actually said it, makes mucho sense, and I agree.

Simple explanation...He's old enough and smart enough to understand the problem.

I saw it there too, and nowhere else legitimate. Not saying he didn't say this, but from other things I know he has actually said, just doesn't sound like him.

He didn't say it....

http://www.clarionledger.com/article...nclick_check=1

[redred]

Fair enough still makes a lot of sense

[Acid Trip]

I still don't believe in the idea of having civilians armed but just once I'd like to hear that during a mass shooting like this, some civilian has the presence of mind and the wherewithal to draw his weapon and stop one of these piece of shit maniacs, reducing the death toll.I'm not talking about a one on one liquor store robbery where the proprietor shoots the crook, I'm talking about the restaurant/school/movie theater/mall rampages.

All of the recent mass shootings have occurred in gun free zones. Hard for a law abiding citizen to pull their weapon when they are not allowed to carry it in that area.

[FBD]

I still don't believe in the idea of having civilians armed but just once I'd like to hear that during a mass shooting like this, some civilian has the presence of mind and the wherewithal to draw his weapon and stop one of these piece of shit maniacs, reducing the death toll.I'm not talking about a one on one liquor store robbery where the proprietor shoots the crook, I'm talking about the restaurant/school/movie theater/mall rampages.

Well, if we had an objective media whose primary interest was journalism and not political activism, then you'd have seen all of these :

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2012/12...-citizens.html

and you'd have heard of the other shooting that was stopped that same day...but of course since a gun was used in a defensively appropriate manner, it doesnt fit the narrative so it is hushed up and not reported on.


RIP Journalism. Blogs are the last bastion of objective journalism. Some of them, anyway.

[FBD]

and boy if we didnt all see this coming...

"“In the coming weeks, I will use whatever power this office holds…”

fuck you, president fuckface.

[Southern Belle]

I caught that too.

[Acid Trip]

An interesting fact on an article related to the shooting:

"John Lott, who conducted a study on mass shootings in 1999 spoke with John Fund after the Newtown school shooting and pointed out the following, "With just one single exception, the attack on congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson in 2011, every public shooting since at least 1950 in the U.S. in which more than three people have been killed has taken place where citizens are not allowed to carry guns."