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Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby rise on Sat Dec 15, 2012 6:26 am

People like this make me fucking sick. Disgusting acts like these are happening more and more frequently it seems.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323297104578179271453737596.html
At least 25 people, including 18 children, were shot and killed at a Connecticut elementary school on Friday, law-enforcement officials with knowledge of the matter said.

A law-enforcement official identified the suspected shooter as Ryan Lanza, 24 years old. The official said his mother was a teacher at the school, and she was believed to be among the victims.

The shooting, which began inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., at about 9:40 a.m., was concentrated around a single classroom, a school bathroom and a hallway, the official said.
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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 18 kids & others dead

Postby JNett on Sat Dec 15, 2012 6:58 am

Only about an hour from where I live. Completely sick and disgusting. Looks as though he wiped out his whole family, father and mother, while his girlfriend and a friend are missing. Awful stuff
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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 18 kids & others dead

Postby rise on Sat Dec 15, 2012 7:17 am

Death toll is up to 20 kids. This is insane. I have a friend who used to live a short while from there who's worried out of his mind right now wondering whether someone he knew was affected by this. Hope everyone you know is alright. This is tragic. I just had a vision of what this would be like if I was a little kid at school. Has me scared sick.
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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby benji on Sat Dec 15, 2012 7:49 am

rise wrote:Disgusting acts like these are happening more and more frequently it seems.

Key word here is the last one.

This one at least has a mildly interesting "story" based on the media reports thus far in that it involved two sons targeting their divorced parents (and girlfriend?) to go along with the 20-30 year old male (with mental illness?) aspect.
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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby benji on Sat Dec 15, 2012 8:27 am

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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby Andrew on Sat Dec 15, 2012 9:45 am

Ugh. I know in trying to make sense of terrible incidents like this, there's often a natural reaction to point fingers and assign blame, but no. Just...no.

As for the tragedy itself, what can you say? Absolutely terrible.
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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby Dc311 on Sat Dec 15, 2012 10:08 am

It sucks what happened today.What a fucking coward.

But this is true,

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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby koberulz on Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:33 pm

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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby Andrew on Sun Dec 16, 2012 12:32 pm

Responsible journalism there.
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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby shadowgrin on Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:31 pm

Americans, ineffective as always and too lazy to do the dirty work by using a gun.

A man in China injured 22 kids with a knife, not some gun like a lazy person would.
No one got killed but it's more effective because those 22 kids will live out their lives traumatized and in fear as they grow up. That's years of torment!
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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby benji on Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:57 am

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Postby koberulz on Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:37 pm

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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby bowdown on Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:53 pm

That Ryan Lanza comes off as a douche himself in his facebook posts. Sad though. The guy just shot his mother point blank in the face and drove off to the school and shot kids around 10 times each with a god damn semi automatic rifle. Was there even anything left to shoot at after the first few bullets probably mangled their little bodies?
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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby koberulz on Tue Dec 18, 2012 2:38 pm

bowdown wrote:That Ryan Lanza comes off as a douche himself in his facebook posts.

Seriously? Have you ever been named as a mass-murderer on national news?

Not to mention, his mother had just been shot by his brother, who then went on to massacre children at an elementary school. I'd say he handled it pretty damn well.

a god damn semi automatic rifle.

Why do people insist on throwing around 'semi-automatic' like it means anything close to 'automatic'?
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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby benji on Tue Dec 18, 2012 3:37 pm

To be fair, in this case the rifle he did use was indeed a semi-automatic.

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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby koberulz on Tue Dec 18, 2012 3:48 pm

benji wrote:To be fair, in this case the rifle he did use was indeed a semi-automatic.

I'm aware of that, but I'm commenting on the 'it was semi-automatic! That's basically automatic! There's no need for anyone to ever have a semi-automatic weapon!' notion that people seem to have in their heads (specifically, the 'god damn' bowdown placed before 'semi-automatic rifle'), not the media's inability to know which weapon was used and what its specs are.
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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby benji on Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:09 pm

He probably would have been far less effective with a bolt-action, his arm likely would have tired after the first clip based on the picture of him.
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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby [Q] on Tue Dec 18, 2012 6:33 pm

koberulz wrote:
a god damn semi automatic rifle.

Why do people insist on throwing around 'semi-automatic' like it means anything close to 'automatic'?

someone at work today pretty much hinted at the same thing and i had to explain the difference.
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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby benji on Tue Dec 18, 2012 7:14 pm

It does go back to the media's unfamiliarity with and fear of guns despite koberulz's missing the connection to the image. Semi-automatic sounds frighting so they repeat it over and over again. If they breathlessly said "the shooter had a rifle that fired when the trigger was pressed" they'd sound like idiots.

People who don't know anything about guns except that they fire on their own and cause people to instantly kill without being loaded aren't going to learn anything about guns except what they are told by the media who knows as much as they do.

Thus a semi-automatic that's harmed someone is a MG-50 just like all bad dogs are pit bulls.

See, also: Media coverage of anything you happen to know about.
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Postby Dc311 on Tue Dec 18, 2012 9:13 pm

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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby koberulz on Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:30 pm

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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby Dc311 on Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:44 am

Thanks for clearing that up.
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Re: Elementary school shooting in CT, 20 kids & more dead

Postby shadowgrin on Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:16 am

bowdown wrote:That Ryan Lanza comes off as a douche himself in his facebook posts.

:facepalm2:
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