Newtown CT school shooting

[Scruffy]

My heart is saddened as everyone's is.

This gunman may have been a particularly odd person from the reports so far, but in all these mass shooting cases it seems there is a loner, or someone who was teased and bullied. With the violence lust in our society, and easy access to weapons ( be it guns or home made bombs from instruction on the web ) this nation needs to take seriously the issue of teaching our children assimilation and socialization skills, including how to handle rejection, from the earliest age. I believe this needs to be a top priority for schools, equal to learning the core curricula. Not one single kid should grow up alone or bullied. The media and entertainment segment needs to take some responsibility too, it is sickening how dripped in guns, violence, revenge, etc .. our entertainment is. And we feed our kids these images and messages every day.

 

[jack97]

Do you guys remember this from a few years ago?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis

That was a carefully organize plan by a separatist terrorist group from Chechen. They used the same approach by some extremist Palestinian groups where children or teenagers were specifically targeted. In Israel, these forms of terror have anger the population to point of share hatred.

btw, what's the point?

 

[jack97]

The media and entertainment segment needs to take some responsibility too, it is sickening how dripped in guns, violence, revenge, etc .. our entertainment is. And we feed our kids these images and messages every day.

in Japan, the media is just as and in some subject matters more violent. The have a storied past of total warfare where relatives and friends of the defeated share the same fate. Yet they do not commit as many crimes as in the US.

 

[gmcunni]

learned this morning that our town will host the kids from Sandy Hook Elementary in one of our school buildings so they can start getting back to some sense of normalcy.

 

[Scruffy]

in Japan, the media is just as and in some subject matters more violent. The have a storied past of total warfare where relatives and friends of the defeated share the same fate. Yet they do not commit as many crimes as in the US.

Ok, then what is Japan doing differently that their kids can view violence and not make it an option for their reality?

 

[Nick]

That was a carefully organize plan by a separatist terrorist group from Chechen. They used the same approach by some extremist Palestinian groups where children or teenagers were specifically targeted. In Israel, these forms of terror have anger the population to point of share hatred.

btw, what's the point?

The point of that? Nothing other than that that was the only mass incident I could recall that involved kids and it was also horrific.

 

[Nick]

learned this morning that our town will host the kids from Sandy Hook Elementary in one of our school buildings so they can start getting back to some sense of normalcy.

That's nice .... I wonder what normalcy means now for those kids .... how the heck does a 6 year old even begin to process this ?

 

[Nick]

PS Guys - let's keep the conversation in this thread to Sandy Hook and the victims specifically. This isn't the place for a debate on guns. Take it elsewhere.

 

[legalskier]

Spread the word.

 

[ScottySkis]

Spread the word.

+10000000000000000000000000000000000.

 

[witch hobble]

Well.....with apologies to you responsible gun owners out there.....NRA's contribution was not meaningful, was not a conversation, was off the charts tone-deaf.

An arms race? In elementary schools?

 

[dmc]

My band is doing this on Saturday.
Bands are encouraged to stop playing at 10pm for a moment of silence..
After we will break into Ripple followed by SoulShine...

Nationwide Musicians' Moment of Silence

As our nation continues to mourn the senseless violence that claimed so many innocent lives in Newtown, Connecticut last Friday, musicians around the country will unite in a moment of memorial silence. As representatives of our communities and of the wider community of musicians, performers will join in a minute of silence at all live musical performances Saturday, December 22, 2012 to honor the memories of those killed.

All musicians are asked to observe one minute of silence at every musical performance in the USA at 10:00 PM Saturday, December 22nd, 2012 in whatever time zone in the USA they are performing. Broadway and show communities nationwide could also observe one minute of silence prior to Saturday evening's shows.

 

[snoseek]

My band is doing this on Saturday.
Bands are encouraged to stop playing at 10pm for a moment of silence..
After we will break into Ripple followed by SoulShine...

that's awesome!!! Good song selection also, ripple is sort of a tear jerker on its own, beautiful song

 

[bigbog]

Well.....with apologies to you responsible gun owners out there.....NRA's contribution was not meaningful, was not a conversation, was off the charts tone-deaf.

An arms race? In elementary schools?

Yeah, the NRA's leaders are real works of doubletalk.....but then, so aren't some of our elected(and paid for) fearless leaders...y/n?
Agree about the part of immature minds owning, who are lacking in confidence.....often snap with revenge with the greatest item of power = a gun....but an adult being threatened by grade schoolers when out of sight for most of the time? I get sick of the political posturing of our elected when they attempt to be THE Architect of THE definitive answer....like how about All Of The Above...?
The mother & father's irresponsibility as parents(married or not) is unreal....and I'm not through ruling out the ex in playing a part of the kid shooting the mother. When kids are vulnerable, with a lack of self-esteem + chemical imbalance, their minds can be twisted by a hostile ex....just sayin', no evidence right now. Build up his self-esteem by taking out of school..y/n?? AND introduce him to firearms!...?????(Whew...NOT the way to go..imho).
Apologize for all the edits along the way tonight...

 

[FRITOLAYGUY]

Its not guns, its not video games, i think it all starts at home.. I laugh everytime i hear someone say ohhhh were gonna change the laws yada yada umm guess what criminals dont follow laws so hows that gonna help again?