Sad day in Connecticut

[PattayaPistol]

What a terribly sad day for America. My thoughts are with the poor parents and those affected. It unfortunately reminds me of a sad day in Australia - Port Arthur, 1996 when an a**hole killed about 35 people. The result apart from a traumatized nation was the tightening of gun control. There was simply no way to oppose the sea of anti-gun sentiment.

A sad event, a soul searching nation and a terrible outcome.

PP

[chrish]

So, I've had the day now to recover from this absolutely horrible event, all the news, all the comments at the bottom of articles. It's sickening.

But, I really have to believe this will be the straw that broke the camels back because of the nature of this one. It was an entire classroom of little children. I'm not AT ALL marginalizing Columbine, Aurora, etc, or anyone that has lost their life or a loved ones life in an event like this. But this was VA Tech w/ little kids of 5 and 6. It's gonna result in some heavy handed politics, most likely an executive order. Just no way this one will be let go w/o some action. Maybe I'm wrong and mugsy is right and it's just noise and knee-jerk from the horror and sheer magnitude of this event, but I feel otherwise at this point. I think this will start the ball rolling and force the hand of those that were otherwise ambivalent or sitting on the fence.

Freedom always comes around, but not in a lifetime usually. It's been on a slow downward swing for 100 years in this country by the progressives, but it's gonna snowball now. Gun rights have NEVER come back anywhere they have been taken, and it's been well over 100 years in some places. Between Obamacare and the last few events like this, we are going to become the UK, Australia, etc in less than 10 years. Just my prediction. Maybe I'm knee-jerking as a result of today as well...

I think everybody better be making some hard decisions about whether you keep them or not and the implications of those decisions. Gonna be a tough call for folks w/ families that depend on them for income, safety, security, parenting, etc. Safety and security might be the least of those concerns for many.

[muggsy]

They will bury the dead and life will go on. America has a very short attention span.

[mr surveyor]

They will bury the dead and life will go on. America has a very short attention span.

I hope you're right on this one

[ESAFO]

violence is 1 thing that will NEVER be stopped, because of the simple fact that guns & drugs will ALWAYS be running wild.
yes this is a very tragic situation in yet another little quiet town that everybody thinks 'that will never happen to us', until the day that it actually does go wrong without warning.
life will go on & there will be other tragic situations on a daily basis, just like hurricanes, tornados & driving accidents this is just a vicious circle that we can not get out of.
i just wish that all the cowards on this earth would quit bringing innocent people into situations that they don't need to be involved in, if your life is so bad that you or anybody else can do nothing to change it then shame on you for taking the easy way out.......
my heart goes out to all the innocent families that lost loved ones.

[knkali]

First, I sympathize with the victims and their families. I do not want to trivialize them with my next statement.

This will be a test of our system. Our government was formed so that knee-jerk reactions and mob rule does not form policy. IOW we have checks and balances in place so that all sides are heard and evaluated in the spirit and letter of the constitution. We may have lost some confidence in our system with current gun control legislation, but guns are still available to most people in most of the country. While this tempered ability to posses guns as mentioned does not give me cause to feel secure about gun ownership in the future, recent events will be a litmus test of our system's ability to look past the panic, the grandstanding, and the emotional backlash and uphold the most basic of principles that this country is founded on. The system is set up so that one man alone cannot trample the rights of the people no matter how much he feels he can right a wrong by doing so.

Lets grieve with the families who suffered tremendous loss, support the entities that support us and see if, through all the muck and mire, that our system works and the light of freedom still shines. It is all we can do and what we should do..

[Planedude]

I would hope that for once this brings about "Change" that will make a differance.

That would be Nut-job control not Gun control.

Until this contry comes to grips with it's mental ill, talks about their issues and does something consructive to identify and help them as well as the families that deal with them...
Then this stuff will go on, guns or not.
Prayes sent for all those folks.

[knkali]

I would hope that for once this brings about "Change" that will make a differance.

That would be Nut-job control not Gun control.

Until this contry comes to grips with it's mental ill, talks about their issues and does something consructive to identify and help them as well as the families that deal with them...
Then this stuff will go on, guns or not.
Prayes sent for all those folks.

that would be the thinking mans approach. However, in that effort, one would find problems of the mentally ill to be like an onion with many layers to it and would require more than 30 seconds of attention. This is about 20 seconds more than most people want to give. After all we have to pay attention to Honey Boo Boo and the Kardashians.

[CrabbyAzz]

I would hope that for once this brings about "Change" that will make a differance.

That would be Nut-job control not Gun control.

Until this contry comes to grips with it's mental ill, talks about their issues and does something consructive to identify and help them as well as the families that deal with them...
Then this stuff will go on, guns or not.
Prayes sent for all those folks.

I agree, but difficult to make happen. People are generally afraid to turn in nut job neighbors and relatives for fear of retaliation.

[pocket pistol]

I have school kids. I never think when I drop them off that something like this tragedy could go down. My heart goes out to these families.

I hate when lunitics do this kind of stuff. Now you keep seeing how the guns used were purchased legally, it gives the antis propoganda. I just hate it.

I'm still praying for those families. I don't know what I would do...

[ESAFO]

there will always be tragic loss, know matter which way you look at it.
if it's a bone head jumping off a bridge into a bus full of people, an alcoholic that already has 10 dui's leaving a bar & crashes into some people going for a nightly walk, you choosing to go bungy jumping & the rubber band was not set for the right weight or a family traveling on a road trip vacation to see grandma for x-mas & a profesional texter forgets there's oncoming traffic.
death is death there's no questions about it point blank, but when there's death by guns in a masacare thats when there's a outrage by many people.
we can talk & debate for ever, but there will never be a safe solution.
everybody has to have eye's & ears all over there body & be able to protect themselfs.

[Tinman507]

[jocko]

so true tinman. even for those of use who are not involved. Just sayin

[Bawanna]

Does anyone but me find themselves wishing they would have been at that school for a parent / teacher conference when that went down?

I can't stop thinking about it.

Course the way the current system works I'd probably be sharing a cell with Zimmerman, or at minimum charge with a gun in a gun free school zone.

I seem to bounce between super sad and depressed and down right angry and ticked off.

[chrish]

Does anyone but me find themselves wishing they would have been at that school for a parent / teacher conference when that went down?

I can't stop thinking about it.

Course the way the current system works I'd probably be sharing a cell with Zimmerman, or at minimum charge with a gun in a gun free school zone.

I seem to bounce between super sad and depressed and down right angry and ticked off.

I do, you are not the only one. Had I been there...problem is, most of us would have obeyed the stupid law and not taken a gun into the building. Again, I've made similar statements in a couple threads in the last couple of days, at some point a gun owner that has family has to decide between staying out of jail for the family's sake or potentially going to prison.