Developing...
UPDATE:
CBS News is reporting that 27 people are dead, including 14 students, after a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The gunman is among the dead.
UPDATE 2:
Fox Connecticut reports that the shooting began in the kindergarten classroom.
Two students and a teacher were also injured in the shooting and they were taken to Dansbury Hospital, spokeswoman Diane Burke told CBS News York.
UPDATE 3:
NBC: Shooter was 20 years old---dressed in all black.
UPDATE 4:
456 students attended the school. Grades K-4.
UPDATE 6:
CBS: BODY FOUND AT HOME OF SHOOTER
UPDATE 7:
Shooter -- identified by CNN as Ryan Lanza. He shot his father in Hoboken, NJ and proceeded to Sandy Hook Elementary School where his mother taught kindergarten.
UPDATE 8:
CNN now reports the actual shooter’s name is Adam Lanza. Ryan Lanza is his brother. Police are questioning Ryan.
2nd Amendment full court media attack in 3...2...
ReplyDeletebrother.
DeleteNo doubt. Never let a good crisis go to waste.
DeleteAlready happening.
DeleteGod Bless all the victims and their families. It's tragic that the adults in that school were working in a "gun free zone" and weren't packing.
ReplyDeleteIf at least one person had a gun, that number would be lower than 27. Maybe 1 if they're a real good shot.
Never once will it be mentioned that a poor economy might be a contributing factor to 20 somethings going on rampages in malls & schools because they are having a hard time being productive in society.
ReplyDeleteThere's a reasons beyond and in addition to culture that Japan has high suicide rates in combination with decades of sustained economic misery.
I'll be curious to see what type of FDA approved meds the shooter was on or if under the care of a "professional"
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts exactly. The media and sundry political vultures will no doubt seize this as an opportunity to rail against private gun ownership; but you can be sure that they'll issue nary a peep about the big pharma-government complex and how it's destroying the minds of millions of Americans with dangerous, violence-inducing chemicals.
DeleteAntidepressants. There are usually antidepressants in the story after the main press pack has moved on.
DeleteExactly! The question no one is asking is why these things have become so common. What has changed? It's not like the number of guns or the number of crazy people has gone up. The only new factor in the equation that I can think of is new drugs.
Delete"45 people, mostly children, were killed and 58 were injured when disgruntled and demented school board member Andrew Kehoe dynamited the new school building in Bath, Michigan out of revenge over his foreclosed farm due in part to the taxes required to pay for the new school."
ReplyDeleteThe Bath massacre occurred on May 18, 1927. It remains the worst school tragedy in US history. Note the current coverage from AP and others remembers nothing beyond their own experience. "American history" is apparently now "what I remember."
Whatever else the MSM propagandizes over this in the coming days, the phrase, "failed state-controlled mental health system" will not be one of the narratives.
I agree. You also never here them support the abolishment of public schooling.
DeleteNotice that back in 1927, the move was well underway to scrap private schooling and herd kids into large, "regional," or "consolidated" schools. These large schools provide a great target for sickos; they're full of innocent, unarmed people ripe for the taking.
But there will always be criminals. I hate the state for destroying the freedom to deal with all our problems far more effectively. They create the problems.
Andrew Kehoe had obviously passed the point of no return. Pure evil. But I agree that he was not responsible for paying for that school in M.I. This crony-capitalist system is really hurting people badly, and individual people need to choose some personal sacrifices to help fight it peacefully.
I think homeschooling is essential. I'm not sure I even trust the private schools anymore.
"Whatever else the MSM propagandizes over this in the coming days, the phrase, "failed state-controlled mental health system" will not be one of the narratives."
DeleteFailed state mental health system? I'd call this a unmitigated success for them.
This is at least the third school shooting since election day. These have "false flag operation" written all over them. I bet the state is letting people out of mental hospitals and issuing them guns, so they can get their gun control.
I sure would like to read more condemnations of narcissistic asshats who think that, because their lives are hard, it is ok to murder people who have nothing whatsoever to do with their problems. Never mind the guns, what kind of a culture produces people who think the way to confront life's setbacks is to go out as a mass murderer? You could buy a damn tommy gun at the hardware store in the 1920's - full auto - and it never occurred to anyone to butcher people at a school. (sure, mob guys killed each other, but "no kids" was the rule - they chose that business, and they would have been more merciless than any of us toward someone who shot up a bunch of kids). It ain't the guns, its the freak circus of our society that is the problem.
ReplyDeletePrecisely
DeleteAnon, please see the comment immediately above yours. One of the most difficult obstacles in my own post-state self-re-education is the awareness that the epoch in which I live is not special just because I'm in it; similarly, there is an intellectual danger in the assumption that past epochs were somehow better because they are passed.
DeleteThis outlet, thanks to Robert, is one of the most popular fora for discussion regarding the principles of liberty. I agree with you that those devoted to that discussion might perhaps consider the relative prominence of the Non Violence Principle within it, since axiomatically, it comes first.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard78.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard26.html
Sitting ducks! Gun free school zones are nuts! Arm and train the teachers to use them!
ReplyDeleteLet me guess, state aligned media dancing in the blood of victims, gleefully pushing public disarmament. Lather, rinse, repeat.
ReplyDeleteAnother reason to homeschool.
ReplyDeletehttp://gawker.com/5968551/is-this-ryan-lanza-the-connecticut-school-shooter
ReplyDelete...aaaaand Commissar Cuomo expresses the state's ultimate desire to convert its citizens into subjects. Good call first anon.
ReplyDeleteJust seen a choked up prez talk about how this kind of thing has happened "too often" recently in the US. Well, yes.
ReplyDeleteThe wars he directs also kill many innocents, many of them children too. I wonder if that leaves him choked up too.
Corporate Media, which war mongers/exploits is somehow shocked by the "violent culture"...
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile in China...
ReplyDeleteBEIJING -- A man with a knife slashed 22 children and one adult outside an elementary school in Henan province Friday morning, China's worst such incident in more than a year.
http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-man-slashes-22-children-near-china-school-20121214,0,6383015.story
The counter-argument is going to be "better injured than killed".
DeleteMy Facebook feed is now filled with people advocating gun control and that US is a horrible place for letting people own guns. (Note, I'm not an american).
ReplyDeleteAt the same this happened in the US, a man in China went to a kindergarten with a knife and injured 22 kids. Should there be a ban on knifes as well as guns then?
Sick people will always be able to kill or injure their fellow citizens. Laws about gun control doesn't matter.
And I wonder if Obama cries for all the people his illegal and unconstitutional drone bombings have killed during his presidency the f....g hypocrite.
2nd shooter will be memeory-holed...just like in the others.
ReplyDeletenot amongst we seers !
DeleteFalse flag for sure
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