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Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:56 AM

24. That's the first thing that popped into my mind.

I just read student essays that decried Latin America as an inherently violent region, while the US is remarkably stable and free from violence.

And then I read this, the second gun massacre in a week. WTF?

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76 replies	Author	Time	Post
Shooting At Newtown Elementary School [View all]	DonViejo	Dec 2012	OP
This is happening too damned often!	upaloopa	Dec 2012	#1
Gun nuts go nuts	mikeysnot	Dec 2012	#5
Fox News	dwigthreeD	Dec 2012	#32
Welcome to DU and I hope you enjoy the site.	hrmjustin	Dec 2012	#68
Fox News and the other paranoia-inducing public media outlets are big causes of this.	Stevepol	Dec 2012	#69
another one?	heaven05	Dec 2012	#2
More evidence	Plucketeer	Dec 2012	#3
don't forget the bullet	mikeysnot	Dec 2012	#6
Naw, only allow our great govt and people like romney to have guns	The Straight Story	Dec 2012	#8
What a load of crap.	laundry_queen	Dec 2012	#36
Only guns kill people?	lbrtbell	Dec 2012	#74
Other methods take more effort	laundry_queen	Dec 2012	#76
I imagine many people believe that 27-plus dead school children are merely a price to pay	LanternWaste	Dec 2012	#71
Oy	deutsey	Dec 2012	#4
Is this some kind of sick cosmic "joke?"	Le Taz Hot	Dec 2012	#7
When the right-wing	billh58	Dec 2012	#12
Moar guns. Moar guns. Moar guns.	onehandle	Dec 2012	#9
We need comprehensive fucking gun control...	Comrade_McKenzie	Dec 2012	#10
Connecticut has strong licensing requirements and an AWB	hack89	Dec 2012	#13
It has your precious concealed carry.	Tommy_Carcetti	Dec 2012	#19
Every state in the union but one has concealed carry	hack89	Dec 2012	#30
Get the hell off DU with your crap.	llmart	Dec 2012	#66
Just pointing out that Conneticut has strong gun laws.	hack89	Dec 2012	#67
Right... "that's all" indeed.	LanternWaste	Dec 2012	#73
Do u really think he wouldn't have	Dokkie	Dec 2012	#47
This part of your post perplexes me:	tabasco	Dec 2012	#70
The issue is NOT that we need gun control, but what type	happyslug	Dec 2012	#62
Anti-American gun religionists...	sanatanadharma	Dec 2012	#11
When this happens in Norway, it's a shattering, numbing national tragedy.	Aristus	Dec 2012	#14
That's the first thing that popped into my mind.	a la izquierda	Dec 2012	#24
+1 nt	Poll_Blind	Dec 2012	#28
Kick (nt)	muriel_volestrangler	Dec 2012	#15
At a fucking elementary school?	MessiahRp	Dec 2012	#16
and incredibly, 18 will never have to worry about it again. :(	Divine Discontent	Dec 2012	#50
How many more times?	Botany	Dec 2012	#17
If only some of those kids had been able to carry guns at school, this wouldn't have happened!	riderinthestorm	Dec 2012	#18
Only if we had implemented the Brady bill	Dokkie	Dec 2012	#52
We are helpless in the matter of gun violence.	TwilightGardener	Dec 2012	#20
Not just the US, not just guns - attacks on school children	csziggy	Dec 2012	#21
Updating:	Drum	Dec 2012	#22
sigh............	Marrah_G	Dec 2012	#23
What a country.	llmart	Dec 2012	#25
But if only the Elementary School kids HAD guns, they could shoot back...	brooklynite	Dec 2012	#29
I'm fucking sick of it.	llmart	Dec 2012	#65
UPDATE: Sources: Multiple Deaths, Including Children, At Sandy Hook School Shooting In Newtown	brooklynite	Dec 2012	#26
Damn.	jsr	Dec 2012	#27
2 Innocents Dead	SoCalMusicLover	Dec 2012	#31
26 are dead.	lunatica	Dec 2012	#41
meanwhile, a knife-wielding man attacks a Chinese elementary school...	mainer	Dec 2012	#33
There goes that argument	Mangoman	Dec 2012	#35
Deaths in the double digits	oberliner	Dec 2012	#34
CNN just stated... 27 dead.	Scruffy Rumbler	Dec 2012	#37
a whole classroom	Cobalt Violet	Dec 2012	#38
I can't rap my mind around it....	Scruffy Rumbler	Dec 2012	#39
26 dead. 18 of them are children	lunatica	Dec 2012	#40
OMG...now every Christmas will be a nightmare for those families.	dixiegrrrrl	Dec 2012	#43
This madness has to stop. nt	forward4freedom	Dec 2012	#42
One entire classroom unaccounted for outside the school	Beowulf	Dec 2012	#44
That remains the main current concern.	dipsydoodle	Dec 2012	#46
:( sounds like the classroom he chose? how sad. what a messed up evil action.	Divine Discontent	Dec 2012	#51
OMG!	Odin2005	Dec 2012	#45
Another body discovered at a home connected to the shooting...	countryjake	Dec 2012	#48
Salon is saying one gunman wearing a vest, carrying four guns	TrogL	Dec 2012	#49
and the gunman's parent is dead	TrogL	Dec 2012	#53
Much misinformation in the early hrs after the massacre...	countryjake	Dec 2012	#54
father dead at home, mother dead at school, he shot up her classroom full of kids	TrogL	Dec 2012	#57
Girlfriend and another friend missing in New Jersey	TrogL	Dec 2012	#59
Well-Regulated Militia FAIL. Time for our militia to limit who is permitted to join.	kestrel91316	Dec 2012	#55
That is a problem, the US Supreme Court has ruled EVERY male is a member of the Militia	happyslug	Dec 2012	#60
Well then we need the USSC to revisit that whole idea. I would posit that the Militia itself	kestrel91316	Dec 2012	#63
Shooter's guns all said to be legal	mainer	Dec 2012	#56
WAS THE SHOOTER ON PSYCHOACTIVE MEDICATION(S)? Can we please start asking the question?	grahamhgreen	Dec 2012	#58
Sounds like we may have a mass school killing that beats out Bath, Michigan in 1927.	happyslug	Dec 2012	#61
And Virginia Tech	obamanut2012	Dec 2012	#64
Isn't it bit too late to have any hope of actual gun control?	olegramps	Dec 2012	#72
Total ban now! WTF? Need more shootings to convince you?	Blandocyte	Dec 2012	#75

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