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When will a politician finally tell a gun lobbyist: Thanks for all your money, but there is NOTHING I can do for you today. I feel helpless.

Posted by: goodvibe61 on Dec 14, 13:44 in response to mike255's post Breaking News Shooting in Elementary School..

Is there a parent out there today that is not filled with shock, with grief, and with anger, knowing that other parents took their little children to school this morning and they are never coming home?I am sickened today by this.

This culture is poison. There does not seem to be a cure.

You know what story I keep waiting to hear. I keep waiting:

"Today a tragedy was PREVENTED when a person used their regsitered hand gun to prevent a crazy person from committing mass mayhem".

I keep waiting to hear this story, but I never do. The only story I do hear is the one we're all hearing today. And I hear it over, and over, and over.

A grocery store in Arizona. In a movie theater in Colorado. In a mall in Oregon. At Virginia Tech. At a shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska. This is not nearly all of them.This is just scratching the surface of all of them in the past 10 years or so.

We don't hear this particular story eminating from many other cultures. Here, it's every few weeks now.

People are not happy. More and more people are taking meds. Theyr'e mentally unfit. They're physically unfit. More and more people are snapping.

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Breaking News Shooting in Elementary School.. {nm} mike255 Dec 14, 09:08

It is in suburban CT.....Dear Gov. Christie, is today a good day to talk about gun control? If not, when? {nm} mrbinns Dec 14, 09:16

Thanks . . . just what I wanted to read...politicizing a tragedy. websch01ar Dec 14, 11:41

Sorry....I just am continually responding to Gov. Christie's statement on July 23...Guns do not kill people, bullets do. BUT all of these mrbinns Dec 14, 12:09

Hey, websch01ar. Ever wonder why gun control works in Canada, UK and Germany. Outlaws there too. {nm} RotoHockeyYTD2012 Dec 14, 12:36

Let's see how gun control is working in Canada... RazorHawk Dec 14, 19:09

Hmmm ... let's see, my city of 1 million has 120 murders year (and that's an avg yr) - see how much worse it is without gun control {nm} JDolphin Dec 14, 21:02

Canada doesn't really have strict gun control - at least not like the UK does. And the rate of gun homicides is still 1/4 of the US rate. {nm} RogerMore Dec 15, 08:43

populations: 331.59mill (US) vs 34.48mill (Canada) {nm} RazorHawk Dec 15, 16:34

It's a per capita rate. 2.98 per 100,000 Americans, 0.76 per 100,000 Canadians RogerMore Dec 15, 16:48

2.98 US is from the years 2008-2010 (multiple years) while the 0.76 Canada rate you provided is from 1992 (20 years ago) {nm} RazorHawk Dec 15, 17:44

You're right - there's more recent data for Canada from 2006 that has an even lower rate of 0.6 per 100,000 Canadians. RogerMore Dec 15, 18:44

They're reporting 12 dead. Geez. {nm} eyescovered Dec 14, 09:40

Correction. Now 27 (14 of them children). {nm} eyescovered Dec 14, 09:42

Where are you reading this? CNN says 2 dead (both adults) {nm} BSmurf Dec 14, 09:50

I was on Reuters (link in message). The numbers are all over the place. No one seems to know. An entire class is still unaccounted for. eyescovered Dec 14, 09:56

Yeah - I've read multiple sources and no one agrees on anything. This happened 3 hours ago and still no one on the scene has info?! BSmurf Dec 14, 09:58

I work for a school district so it's something that's always in the back of your mind. You never know. {nm} eyescovered Dec 14, 10:03

2 Days ago. It was Oregon Mall Shooting!!! {nm} mike255 Dec 14, 10:05

This is Worst Than Columbine School Shooting!!! {nm} mike255 Dec 14, 10:08

USA Solution - More Guns Needed. HUFFPOST Update - 27 dead including 18 children. RotoHockeyYTD2012 Dec 14, 11:27

Many civilized countries do not have this many gun deaths in one year. {nm} RotoHockeyYTD2012 Dec 14, 11:28

When will a politician finally tell a gun lobbyist: Thanks for all your money, but there is NOTHING I can do for you today. I feel helpless. goodvibe61 Dec 14, 13:44

Copycats. Here's one way to help stop it: BSmurf Dec 14, 14:02

Look 2 posts above, China has strict gun control, and the maniac used a knife. What we need to do is castrate these people so their genes elchan Dec 14, 14:15

Who decides who gets castrated after that? You're just opening the door to a reign of tyranny. {nm} accountant_4_Jesus Dec 15, 01:46

How about the whole male line at and 1 level after his. Then the family will keep people like that in check, before they get postal. {nm} elchan Dec 15, 12:07

Conspiracy Hurricane Sandy and Now Sandy Elementary School shooting. {nm} mike255 Dec 15, 20:33





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