hnd

According to the DM:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...yesterday.html

Dumbo

Gutted about this.

So you have issues with your parents and want to shoot them, go ahead, its tragic but we can deal with that.

But to get back at your mother you go and shoot a room full of 6 and 7 year olds?

I don't have sufficient words for this.

scrubbedexpat141

Truly disgusting and an utterly, utterly shameful day.

I'm embarrassed to be a human at the moment.

scrubbedexpat141

Swiss seem like a decent bunch though. Dad and I drove through and stopped at a hotel by the motorway. Massive place, with a huge restaurant and everything separate to service station etc...no booze in the entire place. Even for hotel guests staying over.

Smart bunch.

Welivehere

Tried to read the article but as a parent of 2 kids close to that age got too upset ...... Sometimes I hate this ******g planet....

Meow

This incident is even more upsetting than the other school shootings as they were such little children.

As for people suggesting teachers should be armed, what an utterly mental idea that is. The world needs far fewer guns not more.

mikewot

Interesting take by Morgan Freedman:
"Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.

CNN's article says that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next."

http://www.examiner.com/article/morg...-on-adam-lanza

scrubbedexpat141

Great point.

Shame the whole thing is ruined by the title of the article doing exactly what he's complaining about (assume it wasn't MF that titled it)

Theseus

I just can't even talk about it. 6 and 7 year olds, babies. Unbelievable.

Meow

One of the Subs would have titled the article.

OriginalSunshine

the bit I read about the teacher trying to assume the role of parent and tell the kids they were loved because it was probably the last thing they would hear before they died - that made me openly weep.

The Dean

Indeed, and I hope everyone approves of my avatar choice - the truly heroic Victoria Sota, who hid her class in cupboards to save them, knowing she herself would almost certainly be killed. She was - and they survived.

I haven't checked, but I have a feeling that when she decided to become a teacher, that probably wasn't in her job description.

What a wonderful, matchless, incomparable lady.

Ash786

I was actually wondering how long it would take these nutters to crawl out...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...de-school.html

scrubbedexpat141

Words fail me. What a truly disgusting, ignorant, hateful, depraved, moronic, stupid, foul and offensive group of *****.

al dente

My eldest is 6.5. I look at her and her little friends and just can't compute the horror, too upset to even get that far.

Victoria Sota is the type of woman that gives you hope for the human race.