27 Dead in Conn School shooting

[fast4522]

Because the truth is this most recent whack job used guns, the next may not. We are living in a time when people intend having their 15 minutes television time are planing to die. Obviously this most recent whack job hatched a plan to inflect damage, the next whack job will hatch something else. A few years ago white powder was being sent to government office buildings, remember that? How about Bill Ayers back in the day as a Weatherman planting bombs. Do you people really think that schools will be the target of the next whack job, I don't think so? This was what a 20 year old degenerate did to us, who knows from what ranks the next will come from? I prefer to be wrong but believe we will be broadsided someplace else. The idea of arming people in schools is crazy.

[hcap]

I don't think so. School shootings have a long history, and give the shooter his few minutes of fame.

Unfortunately the copycat factor is strong

[hcap]

Here’s a map of the world with violent mass shootings. Yes, there have been plenty of problems around the world but you can’t help but notice the concentration of events in the US.



Compiled from:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777958.html

Time Line of Worldwide School and Mass Shootings

[Pace Cap'n]

What a coincidence...the most populous country has the most shootings.

Guns are to homicides as knives and forks are to obesity.

[delayjf]

I used info from Harvard

Yea, they're not political. Might as well quote NBC.

[badcompany]

Originally Posted by hcap

Careful Steve. The crew here KNOWS your info is worthless because it after all uses Socialist countries to support your thesis. You are obviously wrong. I used info from Harvard, but then again I have been called a Commie for lesser crimes like quoting the Congressional Record
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Is it not standard operating procedure for Governments to use a tragedy to take away rights from its citizens?

[Robert Goren]

Originally Posted by badcompany

Is it not standard operating procedure for Governments to use a tragedy to take away rights from its citizens?

What the rights of those 20 children and 6 adults that died because inadequate gun laws? Did not the government take away their rights by failing to act in what is now an all too apparent danger to us all by mental ill people with guns designed to be used by soldiers in war? This not first time this kind of mass murder has happened? Heck, It is not even the first time it has happened this month. How many more times does it have too happen before action is taken? I mean real action, not just crazy talk about impractical things like putting armed guards at every school, movie theater , shopping mall or where ever the next place is that one of these nuts weighted down automatic and/or semi-automatic guns decides to wreck havoc on innocent people.

[ArlJim78]

according to CNN, after the first 911 calls from the school, first responders arrived 20 MINUTES later. 20 minutes to respond to a call about shots fired in a grade school? If that is true (just because CNN reported it doesn't make it true, if we've learned anything it's not to trust any information from the so-called "most trusted" names in news), then I'd like to see a detailed response timeline showing why it took so long. for something like this minutes can mean life or death.

[Tom]

What the rights of those 20 children and 6 adults that died because inadequate gun laws?

You say tighter gun laws would have prevented this.
This is not a given.
We had an assault rifle ban in 1993 - data shows it did nothing.

Drugs are illegal, Bobby - yet they are everywhere.

How about inadequate protection for the school?
They had a glass door locked and he shot it out.

The fact is, he was the only one armed in the so-called school safe zone.

[sammy the sage]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

according to CNN, after the first 911 calls from the school, first responders arrived 20 MINUTES later. 20 minutes to respond to a call about shots fired in a grade school? If that is true (just because CNN reported it doesn't make it true, if we've learned anything it's not to trust any information from the so-called "most trusted" names in news), then I'd like to see a detailed response timeline showing why it took so long. for something like this minutes can mean life or death.

Well the dispatcher 1st had to ASK...

What phone is this?
then...
Who is this?
then...
Where are you calling from?

alrighty then...we got that straightened out

What's happenning AGAIN???

you say a shooting...what kind...

who is it?

what's all that screaming about?

are THOSE actual gunshots?

Don't hang-up?

oh yes...we have somebody already dispatched...after they get their donuts on the way...

[Robert Goren]

Originally Posted by Tom

You say tighter gun laws would have prevented this.
This is not a given.
We had an assault rifle ban in 1993 - data shows it did nothing.

Drugs are illegal, Bobby - yet they are everywhere.

How about inadequate protection for the school?
They had a glass door locked and he shot it out.

The fact is, he was the only one armed in the so-called school safe zone.

So we shouldn't have glass windows or doors in our schools. And we should arm our teachers. Those are the crazy ideas. An armed guard at the door would have just gotten the guard killed and prevented nothing. Good guns laws do work somewhat and there are countries that have them to prove it. Once the nut is at the school, mall or whatever with his guns, it is too late. We have stop him before he gets there.

[Tom]

An armed guard at the door would have just gotten the guard killed and prevented nothing.

I'm saying armed guards, but if one were there, doubtful he would have ever tried to get in.

Arming teachers in NOT absurd. It is being done in some of the more intelligent states now. You just don't hand out guns.....there is a process.

http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=3474&go=4

Half the country is against banning guns and the other half is against arming teachers. Politically, neither can be enacted, and efforts to do either will only incite political division and rancor.

So if something has to be done, what should we do?

My suggestion: School resource officers.

[johnhannibalsmith]

Originally Posted by Robert Goren

What the rights of those 20 children and 6 adults that died because inadequate gun laws? ...

(next post)

...We have stop him before he gets there.
...

I don't get from point A to point B in your logic. Do we need to take away his offensive looking weapon or do we need to stop him before he gets there? Surely taking away his offensive looking weapon alone doesn't stop him before he gets there.

I agree with the conclusion, the second statement for sure. I might agree with the first statement, but it is independent from the second. It certainly doesn't appear to me to be a condition of reaching the conclusion.

Do you want fewer people to die or do you want to stop him from getting there? Which is more important, because lard knows, we only have the attention span and will to deal with one major problem at a time. Considering the benefit of approaching the problem from the perspective of sentence number one and then the benefit of approaching it from sentence number two, and then factoring in the political battles and what would happen in the interim of those battles, which direction would you actually like to see our attention focused on primarily? Taking the offensive gun or stopping him before he gets there?

[Tom]

Taking the offensive gun or stopping him before he gets there?

Or be ready for him when he arrives?

[Robert Goren]

I hope all of you who want to put armed people in our schools are ready to come up with the dollars to do it because it going to be expensive, very expensive.