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[MIMIC]

I'm trying to catch up with all the details here.... Did the shooter kill himself or did police take him down?

That's what I wanna know. I don't think they've said it yet.

 

[SlowRevolution]

CBS is seriously disgusting me right now constantly flashing that picture

 

[The Elite]

So has anything been said about the shooter yet? It seems he was a young male but anything about motives?

Most of these mass shootings never leave us with a satisfying motive.

 

[kylej]

Can the gun chat about what type of things you can shoot with .223 and hunting coyotes and analyzing the scopes and grips and whatever other bullshit gun garbage be shelved for a bit please.

 

[Effnine]

what news channel is doing the best coverage of this? hate how exploitative so much of the news can be during tragedies like this

Local NBC stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nbc-connecticut

 

[elseanio]

CBS newsguy was just about to say something about how the gunman was killing children but stopped. Seems like he was advised to not go into any detail (possibly because it's unconfirmed)

 

[Guevara]

ABC news reports
Shooter was 24.
Wore body armor.
Had 4 guns.
Deceased.

Well this became a trend.

Who the fuck is buying and selling body armor? Does it even have a legitimate purpose?

 

[Nobility]

It's all over the Canadian news here.

Horrific, how can anyone commit such terrible acts of violence on anyone, let alone children?

 

[TimeEffect]

I saw the first report earlier but they were acting like there may not have even been any injuries. Then breaking news of dead and injured popped up on my phone ant it stopped me in my tracks and sent a chill down my spine. I literally misted up as I was eating in the food court at our local mall. Pure evil, that's all I can think of. I can't imagine what those people are going through now.

How in the world did he even make it inside the school in the first place with that kind of weapon and wearing that sort of thing? I live in SC and even the schools here now have armed security officers and the doors are always on lockdown and you must be buzzed in to even enter the building.

Someone let him in. Not on purpose, but they apparently knew the guy (he's a parent apparently of a kid in the school), and someone buzzed him in.

That person who let him in, I wonder how horrible he/she feels.

Just saw one with a little kid who couldn't have been older than six explain in a shaky voice that one of the first grade teachers had been killed.

WTF reporters, leave the fucking kids alone.

How fucking horrible

 

[Interfectum]

I don't even know what to say about this.... It seems like every parent's worst nightmare is front and center today. Little kids getting shot as school is just, wtf.

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

This is so sickening. It breaks my heart. Why defenseless children? It's too depressing.

 

[Jeff Albertson]

This angers me on many levels

This woman has possibly just found out her child has been murdered and some cretins first thought is to snap a picture of her and splash it on the Internet

Have some fucking decorum

 

[Macattk15]

Damn. This is 10 minutes away from me.

 

[Birbo]

Is there a stream still going on covering all of this?

http://www.cbsnews.com/2718-201_162-1950/cbs-news-live-video/

 

[SoilBreak]

So fucking terrible

 

[Vire]

I'm as anti-gun as the next guy. But I strongly dislike "fear mongering", which the previous poster was obviously doing.

The point is, even if he didn't use that gun model, it is legal.

 

[WanderingWind]

Not sure what type of weapon he was using has anything to do with the story. Who the fuck cares?

Sociopathic asshats who want to politicize this before the bodies are cold.

 

[jbug617]

22 elementary school students were stabbed in China today.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/...nife-at-elementary-school-gates-in-china?lite

 

[sans_pants]

How is taking action to prevent future massacres a slap in the face? The slap in the face is seeing this happen over and over again while doing nothing but mourning for a few days. The country and world need to be unified in attempting to stop future travesties like this. The parents don't need you to mourn their child, they need things like this to stop happening, and that requires us to discuss policy and take action.

what action do you propose is taken? unless you can remove all guns from the world, a gun ban is not going to do anything

 

[victreeb3l]

i just heard about this...........

i feel sick. jesus christ whats fucking wrong with people.

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

22 elementary school students were stabbed in China today.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/...nife-at-elementary-school-gates-in-china?lite

Wtf!!!

 

[zero_suit]

22 elementary school students were stabbed in China today.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/...nife-at-elementary-school-gates-in-china?lite

No deaths so far, though.

 

[rdrr gnr]

What a thing to wake up to. I could hear the television in the background while I was half asleep; I couldn't tell if it was real or not. Kids... absolutely brutal...

 

[Nakazato]

Sad

 

[phosphor112]

One of the kids I saw interviewed didnt seem bothered at all. Clearly didn't witness the gunmen himself or see schoolmates getting shot.

Is there more interviews with actual first-hand victims?

They're kids, either A) They aren't mentally developed enough to understand the gravity of the situation, or B) They saw it and were traumatized.

Leave the kids out of this. They've had enough.

 

[WinFonda]

This is so disgusting. I can't imagine being a kid, or a parent of a kid that went to that school today. Awful.

 

[Expendable.]

If he was 24, it's not out of question that he was a disgruntled parent. If that's the case, it won't be long until we get lots of information on him.

 

[Effnine]

It's really hard to watch this coverage, absolutely disgusting what happened today.

 

[NullPointer]

I hate this argument. You never hear about a guy driving his Porsche and running over 15 or more innocent people. A car is not a weapon of mass destruction like these piece of shit assault weapons.

That looks like an explanation, not an argument. Lets not go apeshit on the messenger.

 

[tnaden]

22 elementary school students were stabbed in China today.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/...nife-at-elementary-school-gates-in-china?lite

and none died. Keep the gun law discussion here http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=504163

 

[Xanadu]

22 elementary school students were stabbed in China today.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/...nife-at-elementary-school-gates-in-china?lite

at least none of them died

 

[killer rin]

God the media are such scavengers.

 

[Unspeakable Evil]

Horrible disgusting news

 

[Vilix]

Well this became a trend.

Who the fuck is buying and selling body armor? Does it even have a legitimate purpose?

Yes, you can buy body armor in the US.

http://www.bulletproofme.com/Quick_Answers.shtml

 

[Measley]

This person could have used a bomb or arson.

?

He could have, but neither are as effective in mass murder as a gun. Especially in an enclosed space like a school.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

ABC news reports
Shooter was 24.
Wore body armor.
Had 4 guns.
Deceased.

then he definitely had a couple of handguns.

fuck man.

 

[SlowRevolution]

parent of the shooter was found dead in jersey

 

[BankaiZaraki]

Do we know if the shooter targeted a specific classroom or was it just random target practice?

 

[ZeroGravity]

NBC just said the body found at the home was one of the shooters parents.

 

[JLG-]

29 dead 22 children now??

Connecticut Post: 29 dead, including 22 children, in Newtown school shooting - http://bit.ly/ZqTrYC

 

[panty]

Come the fuck on.. god

 

[gregor7777]

This angers me on many levels

This woman has possibly just found out her child has been murdered and some cretins first thought is to snap a picture of her and splash it on the Internet

Have some fucking decorum

100% agree. Things in the media will change because of this.

 

[pwack]

what action do you propose is taken? unless you can remove all guns from the world, a gun ban is not going to do anything

You are confusing the words "anything" and "everything."

 

[DenogginizerOS]

I fear that this story is about to get much worse. Please, do what you can to shield your children from this story. If there ever was a night to turn off TV, iPads, radios, this is one of them.

 

[Silas Lang]

Damn this is sickening. Children, really? I do not not understand what in the hell this guy was trying to accomplish. God, there are some sickos out there. So much pointless needless death. I hope the survivors are okay. Well as okay as they can be after something as horrifyingly tragic as this.

 

[Head of Vengarl]

God damn it I am so fucking tired of the way our news stations work. Flashing pictures of heartbroken crying parents and interviewing the kids who literally just witnessed a massacre. And all for dramatic effect. So fucking slimy.

 

[Kacho]

NBC just said the body found at the home was one of the shooters parents.

...

 

[Devolution]

Can the gun chat about what type of things you can shoot with .223 and hunting coyotes and analyzing the scopes and grips and whatever other bullshit gun garbage be shelved for a bit please.

There's another thread right now.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=504163

lol at CNN "we've heard from a source that it's ____, not confirmed by troopers though."

Then don't say shit?

 

[Seven Force]

NBC's saying the body at the shooters home is one of his parents... wow.

 

[Ken Masters]

Well this became a trend.

Who the fuck is buying and selling body armor? Does it even have a legitimate purpose?

NRA