Is it normal i didn't mourn for sandy hook?

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I suppose it's socially important to show signs of a sensitive moral center by showing greif for people that have been killed especially children but I've been hearing about the atocity everyday and it didn't move Me. I only had thoughts of the person who killed the children thinking that he was really messed up to do such a thing and he should have reached for help before doing what he did. It's not like I don't like children or anything, I just really want to know that I'm not disurbed by this like other people are! I don't feel normal about this! I wouldn't kill children or any other human being or myself.

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  • NeuroNeptunian
    11 years ago

    Well, not if you can't fully relate or realize that those kids weren't entirely special. I felt bad yeah, and it bothered me that this fuck could do this, however, I know that there are children - in THIS country - dying all of the time. Being shot, being starved, being beat, being neglected

    In fact, there are innocent people dying of violent crimes in my neighborhood and in every state in the damned US practically every day. It does bother me that no one seems to care about guns, kids or violence until it starts to affect pretty, rich white people. Oh, NOW everyone cares. Well you're such a GOOD person...

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    • JustDave
      11 years ago

      I think people would be just as disturbed if a gunman wiped out a kindergarten class anywhere in the country urban, rural, rich, poor, black, white, hispanic, asian,etc... It wasn't a tragic accident. It was someone's premeditated act. Its just so fucked up that something like that would cross someone's mind and then they'd actually carry it out.

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      • NeuroNeptunian
        11 years ago

        There are a lot of murders of adults and children that I wouldn't classify as tragic accidents. They're just not on the news.

        I don't disagree with you and I don't feel it makes Sandy Hook less important, but if there was so much outcry over a lot of cases that aren't important enough to get on the news, cases like drive bys where oh hey, it's that neighborhood, not unusual, maybe we would actually get things done.

        A kid being killed with many others in one day in a nice area is more important than a kid being smothered to death or being the victim of gun violence on their own. Maybe people would be disturbed but they'd never know. The media doesn't care about kids in broke families in bad areas where that kind of stuff "just happens". A shooting that hits kids in the ghetto? "Tell me something I don't know" is the press attitude.

        And it's not important enough for people to look into on their own. Children die grim deaths here everyday. Who notices? No one. They're not important.

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  • normalaccount
    11 years ago

    Kids were the majority. I'm not trying to marginalize the deaths of the adults. I just find some of the statements on here cold. That bothers me. Some kids were writing letters to their parents saying goodbye. Sad, and all these coldhearted comments.

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  • MissyLeyneous
    11 years ago

    I voted not normal, but it's not because of you, persay. It's not normal that we hear of these atrocities everyday, yet we don't hear anything about guns SAVING lives, which they do, every day, and even more so than not. We're becoming de-sensitized to these incidents, and that's not normal.

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  • SuperBenzid
    11 years ago

    I felt bad for them to a degree but I wouldn't say it seriously bothered me or I mourned for them. I did not understand why a country which had started a war in Iraq that killed over 100,000 people and left over 1 million as refugees in miserable conditions suddenly felt so bad about the plight of the unfortunate Sandy Hook victims. Seems like some serious cognitive dissonance there.

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    • SEWnanist23
      11 years ago

      Well, it looks to Me, I'm in the right place on this issue Thank You for letting Me ask and Thank You for sharing.

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    Neither did I. People all over the world die everyday, but some how that doesn't seem to matter! I feel that this is mainly my country's fault (America) for not having stricter gun passed much sooner before this and that there doesn't seem to be enough research and funding going into mental health programs!

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  • normalaccount
    11 years ago

    You are some coldhearted people. The violence in society has numbed your emotions. Hello, these were innocent little kids. Doesn't matter if they were white kids, black kids, yellow kids. Someone always has throw the race card in. Does that really matter? Are you happy that "pretty, rich white people" now know the suffering of minorities in the ghetto? Be thankful it was no one you knew and it didn't hit close to home. Smarten the fuck up.

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    • Energy
      11 years ago

      KIDS WERE NOT THE ONLY ONES WHO DIED THAT DAY. All people care about is those kids! Adults died too! Trying to protect them!! That means a lot more to me...such brave teachers..

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      • NocturnePonyFan
        11 years ago

        THANK you! I hate how apparently those 6 other victims don't matter, simply because they are over the age of 21.

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      • Avant-Garde
        11 years ago

        I agree!

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    • Avant-Garde
      11 years ago

      "Yellow"? No one is "Yellow" unless they have Jaundice.

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  • InfectedNote
    11 years ago

    Nope, I didn't give a damn about their misfortune.

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  • Couman
    11 years ago

    Yeah, people die all the time. The only reasons to make a big deal out of it are a to get ratings or to drum up support anti gun legislation.

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  • SEWnanist23
    11 years ago

    I think I'm exposed to too much news. Maybe people forget but as many children get killed in natural disasters as much as they did at Sandy Hook perhaps more! The only people that mourn their deaths are the ones that knew them. This kind of sensationalism that the news puts out is to get a reaction out of the common public to see where they stand "morally" I think it is wrong to put mental pressure on people that have a "business as usual" state of mind to feel greif. I however await my own death but I'm not suicidal enough for it but I'm not that misanthropic to murder or condone murder, I have better things to do with my time, the internet being one of them.

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  • Mando
    11 years ago

    You know it was morally wrong and wish (regret) it had turned out otherwise so you have compassion and a level of mourning. You may not take it as personally or to heart as some do - but I am sure you can accept their feelings and yours.

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  • davesumba
    11 years ago

    I didn't mourn it. i'm not the least bit surprised this happened, the way kids treat each other these days. i'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. we don't need harsher gun laws, we need to teach kids how to fucking be nice to everyone, instead of teaching them being nice is a bad/pussy trait.

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    • Zucchinipod
      11 years ago

      This wasn't a kid this was an adult. An adult came and blew a bunch of tiny little kids brains out at an elementary school.

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      • davesumba
        11 years ago

        20 may legally be an "adult", but he's definitely a kid, and not mature enough to get through his problems instead of shooting up a school to commit suicide.
        besides, i just meant to start educating kids, so when they are 20, they don't turn out this way.

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    • NeuroNeptunian
      11 years ago

      It's the "be yourself and don't give a fuck what anyone thinks" mentality. I have literally heard parents saying to their kids "She didn't like you getting with her boyfriend? Who gives a fuck what she thinks, haters gonna hate.".

      The idea of individuality and being happy with yourself is great until it starts wrecking one's perception of what a community should be - communication, cooperation etc. Kids aren't being taught to do what benefits and helps everyone, just to be themselves and not care what anyone thinks.

      Look around. Our society in general endorses a "do what makes YOU feel good and fuck what happens to anyone else" attitude. To be a good member of a community is conformist and a kill of your personal individuality. Individuality is everything.

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  • Zucchinipod
    11 years ago

    I heard about it and then avoided anything to do with it because it's too upsetting, but I have two preschool aged kids so it is easy for me to imagine how effed up it would feel knowing your kid died terrified, hurt, without you.

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