(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I woke up today, made some cocoa puffs and turned on the TV to find out that there was a shooting at an elementary school.



I've been seeing a lot of fucked up shit lately, what could possibly make someone do something this insane? Why is it that when you lose your mind you kill? Why can't you do something else? Why does it always end up in death? What could be the motive? What drives people to the point where they hurt innocent children? Fucked up world we live in.

I can't imagine losing a child, especially at school, where it's supposed to a safe environment.

I heard he killed both of his parents.

Sadly I missed the start of this thread but I knew it was inevitable that banning guns was going to be a turning point in the discussion. However my thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families of this tragedy.

Banning guns isn't the solution to the problem a gun is just a mere tool. It's the thoughts and motives of criminals and mentally ill people that are the problem. An old saying that I've heard a lot growing up was "If there is a will... there is a way." If the guy couldn't get a hold of his parents guns he could have resorted to bigger and better things. He could have gone to a hardware supply store and built a bomb with basic things such as fertilizer... should we ban fertilizer because it can be made into a destructive device? No we shouldn't because it's used by the majority for legitimate reasons. This is my opinion and where I stand.

Feel free to look up the Oklahoma City Bombing. It was far more devastating than what happened in Connecticut... out of the 168 people killed 19 of them were children under the age of 6... Imagine if something similar would have happened in Connecticut.. a smaller building with the devastation of the OKBOMB. Before thinking guns are the root of all evil consider other tragic events and what was used.

Again my thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families as we near Christmas and the start of a new year.

Ahhh poetic justice at it's finest :p

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Apparently there was a guy who made a bomb out of a gameboy, the old one, or was it a gameboy color? whatever. Somehow he turned it into a bomb device rofl. But they caught him because he was bragging around the school about how he turned it into a bomb.

Thats sad who the hell could just walk in and kill all those kids.

2 people, with 2 guns, with some unknown dislike of an entire class's worth of kids.

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I'd just like to interject for a moment but what are people arguing about in here, that banning guns outright wouldn't work? Clearly it would you say look at England and the the fact that we've still had massacres, yes..... three of them, one in 1987 another in 1997 and the most recent one in 2010 not one every other month like in America Land of the Free.

I understand why Americans are so reluctant to give up their right to bear arms, because if you remove that you remove the people's ability to rebel against the government, but you live in a Democracy if you ever feel the need to rebel in that manor then all hope is already lost.

Also those of you that argue that people would still get guns through other means are missing the point entirely it's not about peoples ability to get guns through other means what's it's about is making it harder for people to acquire them in the first place. If you can't legally own them most people aren't going to go out of their way to get a gun to shoot up a fucking school. If this guy was unable to get his hands on a gun he probably would have just killed his mother in a blind fit of rage and then fled it was clearly a spur of the moment thing but this being America he took mummy's gun shot 27 people in the heat of the moment and then off'd himself.

What I'd propose is that all guns in America are either band and handed in or regulations changed so that guns can be kept only on a secure location decided by the government or appropriate authority I.E. a shooting range (You could have your own weapons locker there, you go shooting there and after deposit the gun and leave the site) you don't need them in a civilised nation and so what a few people ruined it for the majority. Shit happens I'd rather not see headlines like "27 people killed in school shooting" ever other month.

And to cover another argument people saying that it's the people not the guns,well yes it is the people not the guns but guns make killing far to easy. I'd bet a fortune that if this guy couldn't get his hand on a gun he would never have gone to the school after. If he went there with a knife a few people may have died if he went there with a car.... yeah nothing would have happened.

And comparing banning guns (a instrument made to kill something or someone) to banning something like cars (A means of transportation) is fucking moronic there nothing alike and neither are knives.

Also "Banning Cannabis made it no harder to get", yeah clearly but that's because of all the top priorities out there edgy teenagers smoking weed is not high on the list of things the police or government really give a shit about maybe if all the kids nowadays were taking heroin they might give a shit but cannabis lol no.

Lastly I don't care if people think I'm chatting shit, clearly something needs to be done this many shootings is not normal and it's becoming the "in" thing to do if you just don't give a shit and want to end it all.

I think I'm finished ranting for now though I may change more if I feel like it.