Shooting in Connecticut

[Vegas69]

Some other ideas that have been swimming....

Have an active military officer staffing every school. Don't tell me we can't alternate them and sacrifice their time. We are already paying them. Kelli's brother is a former Marine that is having trouble finding work. What about reservists or retired military?

While it seems like common sense, lock up your guns! Especially if you have kids or mentally disturbed individuals. In that afformentioned class when buying your first firearm, a lecture on buying a SAFE and securing your firearms, ethically.

I'm going to write the Mayor of Henderson and my local representitive with my ideas. Do the same.

[intocarss]

JUST READ THIS

http://www.dailypaul.com/266479/surp...or-ct-shooting

MORGAN FREEMAN ON THE SHOOTINGS YESTERDAY:

"You want to know why. This may soundcynical, but here's why.

It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names,but do you know the name of asingle victim of Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse,and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school?Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a horrible monster,instead of a sad nobody.

CNN's article says that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next.

You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem."

[Vegas69]

Absolutely, in this day and age, you can let the news suck you down to a low level every day. TV, Radio, Facebook, Yahoo, etc. Bad news sells.... It's not going to change and the sick aren't going to change their ways.

We need to protect our children, end of story.

[IMPALA MAN]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

Some other ideas that have been swimming....

Have an active military officer staffing every school. Don't tell me we can't alternate them and sacrifice their time. We are already paying them. Kelli's brother is a former Marine that is having trouble finding work. What about reservists or retired military?

While it seems like common sense, lock up your guns! Especially if you have kids or mentally disturbed individuals. In that afformentioned class when buying your first firearm, a lecture on buying a SAFE and securing your firearms, ethically.

I'm going to write the Mayor of Henderson and my local representitive with my ideas. Do the same.

Ok members, I have to ask. As many of you have already noticed, there are two threads that have seemed to run next t each other the last few days.
"Shooting in CT" and "Best Handgun for home protection".
That being said, for all the "home use" people, are you locking them up when not used or are they in a location that someone other than you will have a hard time finding them? Just asking and maybe it will save a life

[Boss 5.0]

I live in CT and have kids in middle school. This has really effected me. This is just so tragic on so many levels.

I don't own a gun, nor am I opposed to gun ownership. But I have to ask the question, why is it necessary to own an assault rifle? That gun is a killing machine plain and simple. In this case, had his mother owned a couple hand guns and that was it there would be far less lives lost here. But because of the semi automatic assault rifle we have major carnage. I don't get it, and I never will. There will never be a rational explanation to me as to why these guns need to be owned by the general public. I know she owned them legally, but that doesn't change anything for me.

I do think everyone has a constitutional right to bear arms. But an assault rifle, really? You aren't using that for target practice, or hunting. It has one intended use. Tragically in this case it was used exactly as it was designed.......

[camcojb]

Originally Posted by Boss 5.0

I live in CT and have kids in middle school. This has really effected me. This is just so tragic on so many levels.

I don't own a gun, nor am I opposed to gun ownership. But I have to ask the question, why is it necessary to own an assault rifle? That gun is a killing machine plain and simple. In this case, had his mother owned a couple hand guns and that was it there would be far less lives lost here. But because of the semi automatic assault rifle we have major carnage. I don't get it, and I never will. There will never be a rational explanation to me as to why these guns need to be owned by the general public. I know she owned them legally, but that doesn't change anything for me.

I do think everyone has a constitutional right to bear arms. But an assault rifle, really? You aren't using that for target practice, or hunting. It has one intended use. Tragically in this case it was used exactly as it was designed.......

I believe he used hand guns. The rifle was found in his Mothers car.

[nicks67ca]

Originally Posted by camcojb

I believe he used hand guns. The rifle was found in his Mothers car.

The medical examiner stated yesterday all mortal wounds were done with the rifle. The information was just too scattered at the time that was announced.

[nicks67ca]

Some other stories from friends first hand.

My brothers freind dropped his wife off at the school she was the last person into the building before the gunman. this is the first year in a decade that they havn't had a child in the school. She survived.

My cousins daughter hurt her ankle the day before the shooting. She stayed home to go to the doctors office. Thank god she wasn't there.

A Janitor at the police station jumped into a cruiser with a police officer to help evacuate children. He is a freind of the family.

[Vegas69]

You can't prevent them all, but improvements can always be made to the sytems in place to prevent some future occurences. Like your own life, you have adapted to your enviroment by neccessity. There is a clear history of school massacres. It's time for things to change at our schools.

To have such innocence with NO protection is no longer going to work with modern society. We need to start with a highly trained officer/troop at each school to help deter or take care of business. It's just common sense and we have the resources to easily make it happen.

My letter is done and going out tomorrow.....

[nicks67ca]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

You can't prevent them all, but improvements can always be made to the sytems in place to prevent some future occurences. Like your own life, you have adapted to your enviroment by neccessity. There is a clear history of school massacres. It's time for things to change at our schools.

To have such innocence with NO protection is no longer going to work with modern society. We need to start with a highly trained officer/troop at each school to help deter or take care of business. It's just common sense and we have the resources to easily make it happen.

My letter is done and going out tomorrow.....

This I like. The school had 600 children there. I thinks its worth the overtime.