Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School

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#1  Edited By Matterless

View more videos at: http://nbcconnecticut.com.

Live coverage from NBC Connecticut of this morning's elementary school shooting in Newtown, CT. One child confirmed dead so far.

This shit has to change.

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#2  Edited By dungbootle

Fuck, man.

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#3  Edited By laserbolts

Dumb fucking gun laws mixed with crazy people. Nothing good can come from it. Poor kids fuck.

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#4  Edited By toowalrus

There's still no clear information about what happened. I wonder what kind of fucked up asshole would go on a rampage at an elementary school.

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#5  Edited By Oldirtybearon

I'd watch the video if it was available in my country, so I'll just ask this question out of pure speculation -

Are we positive it was an adult who shot the child or was it another child? I ask because the context for discussion should change dramatically based on the answer.

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#6  Edited By NegativeCero

Jesus fucking christ. There have been so many shootings lately.

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#7  Edited By alexpiercey

God, I wish this shit would stop happening. What the fuck is wrong with people?

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#8  Edited By toowalrus

@Oldirtybearon: The news feed says it was an adult, he/she was wearing a mask, he/she had two hand-guns.

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#9  Edited By uhtaree

@Oldirtybearon: Saw on twitter that preliminary info says one shooter (maybe more) might have been a father of a student.

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#10  Edited By Mirado

Shit is spiraling out of control. What the fuck is going wrong with people?

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#11  Edited By PistolPackinPoet

Apparently the gunman got killed in the shooting.

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#12  Edited By Mageman

@laserbolts said:

Dumb fucking gun laws mixed with crazy people. Nothing good can come from it. Poor kids fuck.

The gun laws are ok, most guns used in illegal activities are black market bought anyway.

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#13  Edited By Ravenlight

Was going to get my snark on in here but goddamn, man. This is some fucked up shit.

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#14  Edited By D_Mac

Yeah, can't we, like, cool it with the murder for a while?

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#15  Edited By ImmortalSaiyan

Why would somebody do that. What is to be gained from shooting at children.

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#16  Edited By Jams

@Mirado said:

Shit is spiraling out of control. What the fuck is going wrong with people?

I don't know man. The crazies are coming out of the wood works lately. All this terrible shit happening. I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything but it seems like it ramping up and we're getting closer to 12/21/12.

Really intense natural disasters, threats of attacks from Iran, What's happening in Syria, the deficit, all these nutty fucks snapping and going on shooting sprees....

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#17  Edited By Matterless

NBC reporting as many as 20 children may have been shot. Oh my god.

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#18  Edited By l4wd0g

Wow, that's awful.

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#19  Edited By FluxWaveZ

I wonder how many of these recent incidents (2010-2012) happened in the U.S. compared to other countries.

@Degringolade said:

Police reporting as many as 20 children may have been shot. Oh my god.

Fuck. Wonder if it's too hopeful to believe that none of those shots were fatal...

Ugh, well comment under mine proves that it was too hopeful.

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#20  Edited By iam3green

apparently 12 people have been dead, principle and school psychiatrist.

there might be two shooters.

obama is getting updates.

i'm watching local news. it's like an 45min drive from where i live.

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#21  Edited By Optix12

Insert speechless response. Seriously though what the hell is wrong with some people.

@Oldirtybearon: If its another child then... damn i would be speechless but seems its an adult.

EDIT: Im speechless in both ways that could have panned out (who the shooter was) but if it really was a kid at that age, in that school then... just what!

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#22  Edited By Toadie

Most guns are NOT bought on the black market in these things. They are easily obtained through guns stores. Look at the Dark Knight Rises shooting and Virgina Tech. We very much DO need sensible gun control in this country or nothing will change. You can't point out a crazy person, but you can limited guns. It won't be perfect, nothing is, but if you do nothing, you are making sure this will happen, easily, again.

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#23  Edited By Matterless

RT samsteinhp: BREAKING: CBS now reporting 27 dead, incl 14 children in Conneticut school shooting.

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#24  Edited By Dapupeteer

Gun law are pretty weak when you can buy almost any gun at gun show without any background check, this is from personal experience. I also order a gun over the internet and shipped it to a gun store and the only thing they did was call for a background check which took less then a minute.

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#25  Edited By dungbootle

@Degringolade said:

RT samsteinhp: BREAKING: CBS now reporting 27 dead, incl 14 children in Conneticut school shooting.

Oh my fucking god.

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#26  Edited By uhtaree

Oh no.

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#27  Edited By Marcsman

This is despicable

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#29  Edited By Matterless

RT emmagkeller: CBS: Only a few people shot needed to be treated. "The vast majority were dead." newtown

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#30  Edited By joshthebear

Fucking speechless man. What in the fuck is wrong with people?

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#31  Edited By MeierTheRed

This is horrible

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#32  Edited By Matterless

AP is now reporting 18 children dead.

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#33  Edited By Bourbon_Warrior

@Jams said:

@Mirado said:

Shit is spiraling out of control. What the fuck is going wrong with people?

I don't know man. The crazies are coming out of the wood works lately. All this terrible shit happening. I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything but it seems like it ramping up and we're getting closer to 12/21/12.

Really intense natural disasters, threats of attacks from Iran, What's happening in Syria, the deficit, all these nutty fucks snapping and going on shooting sprees....

People have always snapped and done violent things, but over the past 20 years they have been able to get their hands on powerful weapons very easily.

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#34  Edited By NegativeCero

@Duff_McWhalen said:

@Degringolade: @Degringolade said:

RT samsteinhp: BREAKING: CBS now reporting 27 dead, incl 14 children in Conneticut school shooting.

Well, fuck.

I just heard 27 dead, 18 were children, according to the Associated Press.

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#35  Edited By napalm

@Degringolade said:

RT samsteinhp: BREAKING: CBS now reporting 27 dead, incl 14 children in Conneticut school shooting.

Reuters report. Twenty-seven confirmed dead (not sure how many are children. I assume most). One shooter, two guns, shooter was a father of a student there.

Goddamn it. God fucking damn it.

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#36  Edited By Ramone

I feel physically sick.

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#37  Edited By Mageman

@Toadie said:

Most guns are NOT bought on the black market in these things. They are easily obtained through guns stores. Look at the Dark Knight Rises shooting and Virgina Tech. We very much DO need sensible gun control in this country or nothing will change. You can't point out a crazy person, but you can limited guns. It won't be perfect, nothing is, but if you do nothing, you are making sure this will happen, easily, again.

There are exceptions, buying guns legally is easier than illegally but it's not that more difficult to get it off a black market. If you want to be a criminal then you have nothing to lose. The only people who have to lose with strict gun control are law abiding citizens.

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#38  Edited By CptBedlam

Oh man, this is absolutely heartbreaking. No words.

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#39  Edited By OneManX

This makes me sick... I know it's near impossible to weed out the crazies from owning guns, but yeah... we need to leash in these guns out in the wild.

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#40  Edited By Milkman

I hate to turn this into a gun control debate but fucking really, people?

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#41  Edited By Matterless

There have been an estimated 31 school shootings in the US since the shooting at Columbine in 1999.

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#42  Edited By Toadie

@Mageman: That is absolutely no excuse to try to limit guns to people that use them for ill. If you keep using that excuse for everything, you may as well lay down and let every terrible thing in the world roll over us and do nothing. And guess what, law abiding citizens shouldn't need these guns, its only because we allow them that that is even a thought.

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#43  Edited By Nev

Man, so awful. This shit is disgusting.

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#44  Edited By joshthebear

Gun control is a must, and people who think otherwise must be fucking delusional. I can only imagine how the NRA is going to spin this.

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#45  Edited By Mageman

@Toadie said:

@Mageman: That is absolutely no excuse to try to limit guns to people that use them for ill. If you keep using that excuse for everything, you may as well lay down and let every terrible thing in the world roll over us and do nothing. And guess what, law abiding citizens shouldn't need these guns, its only because we allow them that that is even a thought.

But they do need them, it's not moral to disallow someone's right to defend his home.

Switzerland, Austria and Serbia also have quite liberal gun laws yet that does not cause horrible gun crime there, it's an American phenomenon and gun laws have nothing to do with it. As I said, if that guy couldn't get guns legally he would waste an additional 30 min of his pathetic life and get them illegally.

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#46  Edited By Bourbon_Warrior

@Mageman said:

@Toadie said:

Most guns are NOT bought on the black market in these things. They are easily obtained through guns stores. Look at the Dark Knight Rises shooting and Virgina Tech. We very much DO need sensible gun control in this country or nothing will change. You can't point out a crazy person, but you can limited guns. It won't be perfect, nothing is, but if you do nothing, you are making sure this will happen, easily, again.

There are exceptions, buying guns legally is easier than illegally but it's not that more difficult to get it off a black market. If you want to be a criminal then you have nothing to lose. The only people who have to lose with strict gun control are law abiding citizens.

It doesn't matter, they fucked up gun laws long ago, simple as that. You can prevent people from buying guns or the type of guns and how much ammunition they keep but there is still way too many guns in America. It's come to the point where I think every school needs a gun cabinet and teachers that are trained to fire guns it's a sad reality but this is what America is now, Canada has alot of guns but they have a very low murder rate.

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#47  Edited By Sooty

Surprise surprise. How many more lives need to be lost to tighten gun laws in America?

and agree with @Bourbon_Warrior: there's too many guns in circulation now, but they should still make it at least a little challenging to get a gun, the fact Walmarts sell guns creeps me out.

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#48  Edited By plop1920

Stop selling guns to citizens

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#49  Edited By SirOptimusPrime

I really don't have anything to say. I was already pretty much for harsh gun laws, but I really want to hear a case for soft gun laws after this. You have to start somewhere, and if that means I don't get to keep my gun (yes, it's quite common in Central/NE PA to have many guns) then yes please.

@FluxWaveZ said:

I wonder how many of these recent incidents (2010-2012) happened in the U.S. compared to other countries.

I don't know, but something similar happened in China earlier today (EST). Read as: World is fucked, not just us :|

@Mageman: Or he would go and steal one from a neighbor. Or that very weapon used to "defend one's home" can be turned against you, or your children - or others and their children. The variables are too many and nuanced to just say that the citizenry "needs" access to guns.

If the perpetrator has a gun, and so do you, where does it end? When does the escalation stop, really?

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#50  Edited By TheHT

@Mageman said:

@Toadie said:

@Mageman: That is absolutely no excuse to try to limit guns to people that use them for ill. If you keep using that excuse for everything, you may as well lay down and let every terrible thing in the world roll over us and do nothing. And guess what, law abiding citizens shouldn't need these guns, its only because we allow them that that is even a thought.

But they do need them, it's not moral to disallow someone's right to defend his home.

Stricter gun laws = automatic removal of right to defend home?

Does not compute.