7 Years Ago Today; the unspeakable tragedy of Sandy Hook

[Dennis Donovan]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting



The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people, including 20 children between six and seven years old, and six adult staff members. Before driving to the school, he shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home. As first responders arrived at the school, Lanza committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

The incident remains the deadliest mass shooting at either a primary or secondary school in U.S. history, the second-deadliest U.S. school shooting overall, and the fourth-deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. The shooting prompted renewed debate about gun control in the United States, including proposals to make the background-check system universal, and for new federal and state gun legislation banning the sale and manufacture of certain types of semi-automatic firearms and magazines with more than ten rounds of ammunition.

A November 2013 report issued by the Connecticut State Attorney's office concluded that Lanza acted alone and planned his actions, but provided no indication why he did so, or why he targeted the school. A report issued by the Office of the Child Advocate in November 2014 said that Lanza had Asperger syndrome and as a teenager suffered from depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, but concluded that they had "neither caused nor led to his murderous acts." The report went on to say, "his severe and deteriorating internalized mental health problems ... combined with an atypical preoccupation with violence ... (and) access to deadly weapons ... proved a recipe for mass murder".

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[malaise]

1. Too sad

I will never forget that day

[certainot]

2. the next day 1200 radio stations got back to work for the NRA and would

continue to do its work, along with serving trump and the kremlin (dr fiona hill was right), and denying global warming, which at the rate of $1000/hr x 15 hrs /day x 1200 stations is worth about $5BIL/yr

[hlthe2b]

3. I will light a REAL candle in their memory today...

Surely one of the saddest episodes in our history compounded by years of RW conspiracy-mongering. Those parents and families deserve so much support. Most of all we need to stop those who would propagate this tragedy.

[Vinca]

4. And nothing has changed to stop it from happening again.

[Freddie]

5. Once got in a discussion with a gun nut

He said that yes, dead children were an acceptable price to pay for their precious gun rights. My blood ran cold, I ended the conversation and haven’t spoken to him since. This is what we’re up against. Sometimes I really wish the country would just split already.

[Bettie]

7. My brother said that too

I asked him what if it was his child.

He said that he'd have been sad but accepted it as the price of freedom.

I don't talk to him unless it is absolutely necessary. He's a tool.

[smirkymonkey]

8. I will never understand these people as long as I live.

Their obsession with guns is a sickness. A perversion. I can't even have a conversation with someone like that.

[Bettie]

6. The loss of all those lives

especially the little children was heartbreaking.

Then, it was compounded when right wingers, in one voice said "We don't care".

Little kids were shot to death and they didn't care.

That says a lot of things about the gun nuts*


*NOTE: Gun Nuts are a subset of gun owners, please don't start in on me about "not all gun owners".

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. Remembering the Sandy Hook shooting victims

For many of them, more time has passed since they were killed than they had while they were alive.

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Seven years ago today, 26 people, so many of them small children, were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. http://7ny.tv/2PzT64p
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