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Showing Original Post only (View all)I thought I was done weeping for the night...Then I read this [View all]
The picture of the empty swing was hard enough to take. Then there are the quotes from the babies. Heartbreaking!I just want Christmas. I dont want to die, I just want to have Christmas.
12/14/2012 11:36pm by John Aravosis
Amazing, horrifying, story from John Christoffersen and Jocelyn Noveck of AP about the mass murder of twenty five-to-ten-year-olds at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Read the entire thing.
A first-grade teacher barricaded herself into a bathroom with 15 students. This is first grade, so were probably talking 5 and 6 year olds:
I said, There are bad guys out there now. We need to wait for the good guys, she told ABC News.
The kids were being so good, she said. They asked, Can we go see if anyone is out there? I just want Christmas. I dont want to die, I just want to have Christmas. I said, Youre going to have Christmas and Hanukkah.
One student claimed to know karate. Its OK. Ill lead the way out, the student said.
Then this:
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They told a little boy it was his sister who passed on, Weiss said. The boys response was, Im not going to have anyone to play with.
Read this story from the NYT as well.
Some people, a little girl said later, searching for words, they got a stomachache.
Enough. Im tired of the gun nuts. Im tired of the politicians, and political parties, who either whore for them, or are mortally afraid of them. And Im tired of gun control advocates who dont seem have the stomach for a real fight.
Its over. Enough talk about an assault weapons ban that nobody has the backbone to even bring up. Its time we ended our national love affair with guns, violence and death. The time for compromise, which was really only serial capitulation, is over. Its time to ban guns once and for all.
Edit to add link.
http://americablog.com/2012/12/i-just-want-christmas-i-dont-want-to-die-i-just-want-to-have-christmas.html
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We're.. not Stuck with this bullshit. Europe got rid of their guns. We can get rid of ours.
TheDebbieDee
Dec 2012
#5
Many countries in Europe did institute some form of gun control that drastically reduced the number
TheDebbieDee
Dec 2012
#65
First off, I wasn't talking to you. It's nice to post links to back up what you say,
TheDebbieDee
Dec 2012
#81
Yes, you are confused. And you do have reading problems. I stated quite clearly in my first post
TheDebbieDee
Dec 2012
#98
The 2nd Amendment isnt free from interpretation. Most of the Constitution has been interpreted and
rhett o rick
Dec 2012
#22
I think we should license people to own guns PROVIDED that they agree to volunteer
JDPriestly
Dec 2012
#47
You don't seem to understand. There are millions of Americans who are madly in love with guns.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2012
#45
I'm guessing plenty of the gun humpers can demonstrate that competence and would be happy to do so.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2012
#53
Perhaps we should, from now on, refer to the Gungeon as the teeny weeny penis forum.
JDPriestly
Dec 2012
#48
Multi channel approach needed now. Campaign finance reform NOW. Mental health parity NOW.
mahina
Dec 2012
#16
One student claimed to know karate. “It’s OK. I’ll lead the way out,” the student said.
sheshe2
Dec 2012
#39