What are your thoughts on the connecticut shooting

Where do I even begin. Those poor children and staff and their poor families. As a mum it just doesn't even bear thinking about that you put your beautiful innocent and trusting child into school and they may never come home. No words could really describe how people are feeling. My thoughts and prayers are with all the people affected. I know it wouldn't make any difference when it happened but 11 days before christmas. I don't doubt their parents had all the christmas things ready and those poor little children must have been so excited looking forward to father christmas/santa coming to visit them.
The children will have eternal rest though as they are only young and so innocent. xx

I usually don't care for world events however I am absolutely disgusted by this story. I wish the shooter was alive so he could be forced to answer for what he did.

that cock sucking stupid ass fucking asshole/fagget ass fucking bitchass murderer should
choke on his dads dick eat shit & fucking go 2 hell with his dumbass.

-Alex.v

It's not as good an idea as people think it is to ban guns. Guns in the hands of citizens keep wars from happening on our soil. As a matter of fact, Japanese General Yamamoto warned that "Americans all have and are trained in the use of firearms. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.", upon discussing attacking on US soil.
I think we should better regulate those who are able to have guns. We also need to take more seriously the mental state of people. This gunman was said to have told people around him that he wanted to hurt people, and in return they ignored him. Didn't anybody notice that his family didn't even have a picture of him past 13 years old? Not that this justifies these actions, but he was obviously tired of crying for help and being ignored. That doesn't make him a victim by any means- he deserves to burn, but we could prevent these things with more understanding and carefulness on our part.

It was a horrible tragedy that should have never taken place, as all the other tragedies that struck this nation. RIP to all of those who lost their lives to tragedies such as this.

Also, while I'm extremely worried about the families who just lost their children and other loved ones right before christmas, I'm very very worried for the gunman's brother.

Not only was he wrongly accused and his face and name thrown all over the country, his facebook and twitter were apparently swamped with threats and strangers' messages. He was just at work and had no idea his mother and brother died like that. I hope his friends and what family is left understand, and I hope he comes out the other end okay.

If guns were prohibited completely, there would still be psychos with guns for many years. How is it possible for every person's gun to be compensated? Not every gun is registered under the right persons name. Guns are traded all the time without reregistering. Only the honest, lawful and scared would give up their guns.the rest will be tightly tucked away. There is no way everyone's house would be thoroughly searched. Such an act would certainly leave psychopaths and right minded rebels with guns, while the rest are left only with their sanity - not a good weapon against a psycho.

I wish it could be that easy, but there are just too many guns out there. I think people should definitely be mentally evaluated before being given permission to have a gun. Prohibiting felons from possession is not enough. Besides, i know plenty of felons with guns anyways and they have more than non-felons.

I feel terrible about this catastrophe and i wish it could have been prevented. I guess we just have to quite trusting one another.

It's sad that these things happen. That's about the extent of my feelings. In terms of gun laws, that's for Americans to decide.

especially for the people who own guns, complying with gun prohibition, would be like willfully giving up their all their freedom.

what happened is really sad, but innocent civilians die everyday around the world. some people live through things quite possibility worse than death.

Guns don't avoid critical thinking by leaning on tired aphorisms. People do.

I think occurrences like this could've been prevented a long time ago if this country had put created stricter guns laws or just banned guns all together. I don't think civilians should be allowed to have access to buying military weapons and they should do background checks. But even if background checks are made the law there's still the huge chance that the weapon could be borrowed to or stolen by someone of unsound mind. I think there should be more research going into how to better treat people with mental illnesses. In a sense, all this gun violence is this country's fault for not taking a stand a lot sooner and the media worsens things by causing someone somewhere to want to top off what the last person did.

The gunman's guns didn't belong to him.
I also don't think we should focus on the guns in this situation. I think we should focus on the fact that we're focusing on guns instead of the victims and their families, and then focus on the victims and their families.

The man in China who stabbed 22 children and an elderly woman yesterday did not need a gun to do so.

IQ tests before buying guns would not solve gun violence problems for two reasons (probably more that I can't think of right now).

1) Plenty of psychopaths can pass an IQ test.

2) Even if they couldn't pass an IQ test, they could buy one on the black market from someone who can.

Maybe a psychopathy test could solve problem 1 (MAYBE), but not problem 2.

I think it should be made mandatory that every US citizen from the age of 5 and upwards should be given a gun to protect themselves. A little gun holster attached to little Jimmy's school bag will solve this problem.

No wonder the US has one of the world's lowest gun related crimes in the Western world. *NOT*

Fuck the NRA.

this was just proof that god doesn't exist.

Getting ride of guns would only violate the second amendment and cause problems with gun owners especially in the south(who already hate Obama enough) besides if you take away guns then then they will probably start using knives and atleast a gun shot tends to kill you faster

Look at any case study of any country in the world where gun control laws have been introduced. Find me a single one in which gun violence has increased in the long-term after these laws. Only then I will give any credence at all to your viewpoint.

so dumb that any looney can have a gun

Those poor kids! would've loved to see the shooter placed in a tiny cell for the rest of his life with pictures of the kids permanantly glued to the walls so he would be forced to look at them every single day for the rest of his wretched life!

I believe that limiting the rights of law-abiding citizens is wrong. I do, however believe that in order to own a gun ALL GUN BUYERS should have a background check. (Whenever I buy a firearm I have one, why can't everyone else?) A mental health evaluation should also be required for non-hunting semi-autos. (Like in Germany)

I think education should be tied to gun ownership, perhaps IQ tests as well.