26 dead at Conn. School shooting

[F-4 Phantom]

Treating the symptoms vs the causes will only lead to more of the same. The means may change but the outcome will remain the same! 8) The glamorization and desensitization of murder, lyrics written in so-called music advocating murder, the breakdown of the family unit, the assault and elimination of GOD in our society and the ACLU have planted the seeds of hate, turmoil and drastically changed our society!! The seeds planted 60 years ago are bearing fruit today! 8) You can't fix one without fixing the other. Murder is murder regardless of means. Thousands of murders, rapes, assaults, etc.. occur annually in the inner cities. Where's the outrage? 8)

[F-4 Phantom]

I don't have use and neither does our society need, banana clips, semi-automatic weapons and/or music, movies, videos, etc...advocating and glorifying murders of people in authority! When you demean and belittle their roles in society, you in-essence diminish their capacity to effect change!

[Kentucky Trojan]

So we do NOTHING and just accept these tragedies as the price we pay for absolute freedom? Just asking. And if the answer is no, what do you suggest?

What is the argument for pro-choice regarding the abortion issue?

So this is what you call an anology? No sir, you are deflecting by bringing in an entirely different argument. Stick to the subject and bring up relevant anologies or we cannot have an informed discussion here. The subject is gun violence.

Read the entire passage and quit quoting only part of the message. The next paragraph begins the rest of the analogy.

You are like talking to a brick wall sometimes.

Goodness!

[Kentucky Trojan]

Are you willing to increase your property taxes in order to vote for and pay for the increased expenses of SECURITY needed at all schools today? On the news, all those kids and parents looked CAUCASION - no black or brown kids involved - and mostly looked upper income.
From all images, this kind of horrific tragedy is as possible in affluent white towns/schools as it is in inner-city schools with a higher percentage of people of color supposedly more "prone to violence" - so much for stereotypes. And did not all those teachers perform heroically, even died, to attempt to protect their students in their classrooms? Remember that when your school asks you to vote for a levy or bond issue. Schools are required to protect and transport as well as educate our country's children - doing so requires FUNDING mostly based on voters' whims.

Put down the glass for a second.

I am in the education system.

I have posted on here that taxes need raised and spending cut across the board.

Next.

[Kentucky Trojan]

Mass shootings of this type seem to be more of a mental health issue than a lack of morality issue. Yet states have cut at least $4.35 billion in public mental health spending from 2009 to 2012, according to the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors.

"Today, 45 million American adults suffer from mental illness. Eleven million of those cases are considered serious. Most of these people are not dangerous, but if they can’t get treatment, the odds of potential violence increase." If we as a society are not willing to help those with mental illness, we will pay a high price.

This was an affluent family with means. This was a family that would have every available resource for their children....even at the age of 20 for Adam Lanza.

Mental illnesses are also a bi-product of a society that has little, if any, moral backbone. When people had to perform physical work, there was less time to think about all of the problems of one's world...no matter how insignificant. Now, we have more leisure time and more time to worry concerning trivial things.

[eagles73Taylor]

Just one aspect of these mass shootings bother me the most when concerned with just the shooter, mind you the terrible act they play out on the innocent is by far the most disturbing, but with concern with just the perpatrator it is the glorifying of them by our news media. I dont think they know the part they play. They want to be the first at everything, so they quickly post the shooters identity as soon as they think they have it. In my opinion, be it just that an opinion, our news media should never disclose the shooters identity. They should remain anonymous to us. Will this help, maybe, but I just get sick to my stomach when I heard a radio announcer this morning put the shooters name along with the other innocents killed. How dare they stain the memory of these young children and teachers by putting this, I cant even think of a ward vile enough for it, things name along with theirs!

[ManitouDan]

WOULD BE NICE ID ALL NEWS MEDIA REFUSE TO POST HIS PIC OR EVEN STATE HIS NAME .... EVER .

[Tigercannon71]

Eagles and MD you are right. People do these acts to get fame. If the media would never release the shooters name and only talk about the victims it would discourage people from committing these acts. It won't stop it don't get me wrong, but might discourage 1 or 2. Think about how many serial killers and mass murderers you can name then think about how many victims you can name. The media portrays the killer in a way they become infamous while the victims become just names in a case.

[Kentucky Trojan]

[dazed&confused]

Keep fighting sensible gun control....

[dazed&confused]

[Kentucky Trojan]

Keep fighting sensible gun control....

Funny that a liberal shows a Harry Callahan picture when we all know that he fought against the liberal administration in San Francisco in the 5 Dirty Harry movies.

[dazed&confused]

Sure, the implied caption is "Go ahead, make my day!" We'll have the House in 2014 if you oppose this!

[Kentucky Trojan]

Remember this?

[Kentucky Trojan]

Sure, the implied caption is "Go ahead, make my day!" We'll have the House in 2014 if you oppose this!

Take all 3...I don't care.

The country is going down the tubes because we have destroyed the morality of this country.

It is time for a change.

It will probably take a revolution for it to happen in my lifetime.

[dazed&confused]

Sure, the implied caption is "Go ahead, make my day!" We'll have the House in 2014 if you oppose this!

Take all 3...I don't care.

The country is going down the tubes because we have destroyed the morality of this country.

It is time for a change.

It will probably take a revolution for it to happen in my lifetime.

Revolutions are dangerous things. They can get out of hand once started. Careful what you wish for.

[Kentucky Trojan]

Revolutions are dangerous things. They can get out of hand once started. Careful what you wish for.

We know that by what has happened to all of us following the counter-culture of the 60's and 70's...

[dazed&confused]

Revolutions are dangerous things. They can get out of hand once started. Careful what you wish for.

We know that by what has happened to all of us following the counter-culture of the 60's and 70's...

I don't have a problem with that revolution. Should we all be conformists? Ohh, thinking is dangerous. Leave your opinions to the establishment! Look, you can worship close-mindedness if you want but you're never going to put the genie back in the bottle. So why don't you give up this idle time posting, sell your computer and go back to the wilderness? I've got a life to live.

[Kentucky Trojan]

Revolutions are dangerous things. They can get out of hand once started. Careful what you wish for.

We know that by what has happened to all of us following the counter-culture of the 60's and 70's...

I don't have a problem with that revolution. Should we all be conformists? Ohh, thinking is dangerous. Leave your opinions to the establishment! Look, you can worship close-mindedness if you want but you're never going to put the genie back in the bottle. So why don't you give up this idle time posting, sell your computer and go back to the wilderness? I've got a life to live.

Your life that you are living is affecting other youngsters and it is sickening to those of us who have watched our world decay over the last 45+ years.

Revolution is coming. It is just a matter of time.

[dazed&confused]

There is no blood on my hands and no guilt on me.