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     CommentAuthorjohnjones
   • CommentTimeDec 14th 2012 edited

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   @ Wood
   
   [gun nut]See, this proves the folly of librel thought. If only those children had been armed they could have shot their attacker dead.[/gun nut]
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     CommentAuthordorkmuffin
   • CommentTimeDec 14th 2012

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   “We were in the gym, and I heard really loud bangs,'’ said the boy, as he stood shivering and weeping outside the school with his father’s draped around him. “We thought that someone was knocking something over. And we heard yelling and we heard gunshots. We heard lots of gunshots. We heard someone say, ‘Put your hands up.’ I heard, ‘Don’t shoot.’ We had to go into the closet in the gym. Then someone came and told us to run down the hallway. There were police at every door, there were lots of people crying and screaming.'’

   
   
   NYTimes ongoing coverage.
   
   I'm trying to stay up-to-date on this, but I hit that paragraph and am dangerously close to sobbing at work.
   
   It's going to be an interesting few weeks in the American media.
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     CommentAuthoroldhat
   • CommentTimeDec 14th 2012

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   Ah jeez, just little bunnies...thinking that 18 parents sent their kids off to school for the last time ever just makes me sob.
4. • CommentAuthorRenThing
   • CommentTimeDec 14th 2012

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   I know their point of view is important, but could the fucking media give the children a fucking break. Jesus Christ you vultures.
5. • CommentAuthorWood
   • CommentTimeDec 14th 2012

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   Yeah, I think I can imagine pretty well how a kid in this situation can feel. I don't need CNN interviewing them to know exactly how scared they are.
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     CommentAuthordorkmuffin
   • CommentTimeDec 14th 2012

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   You can. I don't think everyone can.
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     CommentAuthoroldhat
   • CommentTimeDec 14th 2012

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   Shooter's parents found dead in their homes. Girlfriend missing.
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     CommentAuthorFoamhead
   • CommentTimeDec 14th 2012

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   Not that it matters but tomorrow is the 221st anniversary of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
9. • CommentAuthorallana
   • CommentTimeDec 14th 2012

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   Jesus.
   
   And brother of shooter either dead or in custody, dang Reuters, get it together.
   I would also prefer it if you could not take videos or pictures of the students, thanks. That seems kind of inappropriate.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   (P.S.: what? I mean I'll do my best ... )
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      CommentAuthordorkmuffin
    • CommentTimeDec 14th 2012

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    @Oldhat, the NYTimes is reporting that the shooter's mother was a teacher at the school and he shot her in her classroom before shooting the children in her classroom.
    
    

    The gunman, who was believed to be in his 20s, walked into a classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School where his mother was a teacher. He shot and killed her and then shot 18 students in the classroom. He also shot five other adults, and then killed himself inside the school. Various news outlets identified the shooter as Ryan Lanza. The shooting ranks among the worst in recent United States history.

11. • CommentAuthorWood
    • CommentTimeDec 14th 2012

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    All right, the suspect appears to be named Adam Lanza, not Ryan :
    
    According to AP
    
    

    The suspect in the Connecticut school shootings is Adam Lanza, 20, the son of a teacher at the school where the shootings occurred, a law enforcement official said Friday. A second law enforcement official says the boy's mother, Nancy Lanza, is presumed dead.
    
    Adam Lanza's older brother, Ryan, 24, of Hoboken, N.J., is being questioned by police, said the first official. Earlier, a law enforcement official mistakenly transposed the brothers' first names.

12. • CommentAuthorFlabyo
    • CommentTimeDec 14th 2012

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    The Onion has a set of amazing headlines up right now. They do have a knack of striking the right chord at times like this...
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      CommentAuthorGreasemonkey
    • CommentTimeDec 14th 2012

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    Canadian ISP under pressure to hand over customers' personal details to Hollywood studio.
    
    Turns out Voltage Studios boss is a serial copyright troll and all-round arsehole.
14. • CommentAuthorRenThing
    • CommentTimeDec 14th 2012

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    Mike Huckabee classily blames the shooting on removing God from schools and simultaneously makes me glad he didn't get the GOP nomination back in 2008 while making me wish I had the ability to light people on fire by will alone.
15. • CommentAuthorFlabyo
    • CommentTimeDec 15th 2012

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    One of the Fox stations blamed videogames within 10 minutes of the story breaking. Based off the facebook page of the brother they named incorrectly as the shooter.
    
    Somehow I doubt we can expect any kind of retraction.
16. • CommentAuthorWood
    • CommentTimeDec 15th 2012

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    The deadliest mass murder in a school in U.S. history took place in Bath Township, Michigan in 1927. Damn those videogames...
17. • CommentAuthorWood
    • CommentTimeDec 15th 2012

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    I'm not surprised there's a petition to arm every teacher. I'm surprised there isn't one to arm the children.
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      CommentAuthorjohnjones
    • CommentTimeDec 15th 2012 edited

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    @ Wood
    
    Let's start one.
    
    Actually, I just did. Please go and sign it.
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      CommentAuthorD.J.
    • CommentTimeDec 15th 2012

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20. • CommentAuthorWood
    • CommentTimeDec 15th 2012

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    Is it trolling or is it sincere ? I can't even tell anymore...