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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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