Fri 14 Dec 2012
Watching a Live Broadcast From Newtown: This Has To Stop #PrayForNewtown
Posted by Miss Info under life beyond rap , sigh....[22] Comments
Aren’t you just sick and tired of this? Aren’t you just hurt for the families of a never-ending stream of gun-violence victims?
27 people were killed today, 18 of them were CHILDREN…after a 20-year old gunman walked into an ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in Newtown CT and opened fire.
There are 311 million people in the U.S. There are over 200 million guns. The U.S. has the highest gun ownership rate in the world. Why? We are not in a state of civil war…well, not officially.
UPDATE: The shooter has been identified as Ryan Lanza. Reports also suggest he may have killed his father at home, and possibly his mother at the school (she was a teacher there).
UPDATE2: President Obama has addressed this tragedy in a brief press conference
(read the full transcript here)
UPDATE3: There was a case of mistaken identity in naming the shooter. The Shooter is ADAM LANZA.
There is a live broadcast from Newtown, CT going on right now, you can watch the video after the jump. It will sicken you, I think. I’m sick with you.
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Just get a grasp of our gun obsession by looking at this infographic. Obviously, the gun doesn’t kill without the shooter. But the tool is a symptom of a deep illness…terminal.
And we keep complaining about it. But what changes?
Here is a photo of the chaos in the aftermath of the shooting in Newtown right now…Imagine being a family member of a child at that school, in the time between hearing about the massacre and knowing your child’s fate.
December 14th, 2012 at 1:40 pm
I’m just beyond words right now. I was at work and got an alert saying a shooting at “a Newtown Elementary School” and my heart dropped into my stomach because my son’s school name is “New Town Elementary School” here in Maryland. When the details started rolling in there was relied but just horrible, horrible sadness and anger in me. Who can do this? Who wakes up in the morning with this kind of intent? These are BABIES. The senseless death was horrible for any amount of human life but the kids have done nothing. There is no valid reasoning for this.
I could not be an elected official or anchorman during a time like this I’d lose my mind. As a parent, and I don’t want to be “that guy” that equates every child tragedy as his own, but I could only imagine man. Every day I take my son to school it’s just amazing to see someone so small with a world that they’re still creating in their minds go off on a new adventure but to have that cut short in the most mindless of events. I can’t even begin to feel what these parents are going through.
I’m praying for the world right now. Parents out here don’t want until Christmas to hug your babies. Hug them now, hug them today and let them know you love them. Hug them everyday, remember what it was like the first day you walked them to school and give them that feeling everyday.
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Miss Info Reply:
December 14th, 2012 at 1:55 pm
sigh
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December 14th, 2012 at 2:57 pm
26 people dead in Conn. 18 kindergarten aged kids?! Then I see 22 kindergarten kids in China get slashed while waiting outside the gates of their school by some sick bastard. What is this world becoming?
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December 14th, 2012 at 4:11 pm
UK gun deaths in 2012 so far: 39 (1 per 1.6 million people). US gun deaths in 2012 so far: 94,134 (1 per 3,350 people).
Numbers don’t lie, in this instance i wish they did.
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December 14th, 2012 at 4:20 pm
I don’t fuck with Obama but I def respect that speach . My condulices to the family’s that lost somebody today.
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Snotboogie Reply:
December 15th, 2012 at 6:05 am
Its condolences, and speech. Now i know why u dont “fuck” with obama
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mR gRammaR Reply:
December 17th, 2012 at 10:15 am
*families
Definitely clear why you don’t “fuck” with Obama
May God bless all affected by this tragedy..
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December 14th, 2012 at 5:03 pm
These things are a wake up call. My heart has been heavy so many times during this year when I see how bad people are hurting. It’s hard for them to even smile or talk to one another, whether they are waiting to get a drink at Starbucks, or getting some food at the grocery store. Lack of empathy, lack of love, and ill treatment seems to be becoming more and more common in the guise of what is considered “normal”; yet there used to be a time when people had something called “manners”, and freedom, didn’t mean doing whatever and hurting whoever you wanted. Is this the case for everyone? No. But I can’t be the only person that sees this. There are too many people who don’t have love in their hearts, don’t know how to love, and react to the sickness in the world by taking it out on others; some folks, on the other hand, see the sickness, and they try to stop it. It’s my own personal goal to spread more goodness and love around. I also pray for the victims and those who are hurting. It’s amazing what a little bit of health care and psychiatric help could do. Clearly the person who did this was disturbed, and these events lead me to believe the mental illness went untreated and manifested itself in this outward expression of disgusting evil.
What if there wasn’t such a stigma to someone getting psychiatric help? What if it was more available? Did this person have healthcare? I don’t know the answers to these questions, but I do know one thing: in order to prevent these things from happening again, we must take a stand against selfishness, violence, lack of care or concern for others, and more. I don’t care what the religious or political view is. It’s too late for that now. This is not our country, and this is not who we are. SMH
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TheOne Reply:
December 15th, 2012 at 11:09 am
Amen! Preach in brotha. You took the words right out of my mouth. People like you give me hope that they are still people out there with beautiful minds and souls.
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December 14th, 2012 at 5:23 pm
At this point, nothing will amaze me. From here on I will be engulfed in pessimism. Society seems to have deteriorated, apparently his mother was a teacher at the school, he killed her then her students? where are kids getting this deep seeded hatred for their parents to the point where they feel that this is the right course of action.
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December 14th, 2012 at 5:36 pm
As I get older, I get sicker and sicker of this country and it’s ideologies, laws, rhetoric, ways of thinking, etc. It’s so sad how something like this can continually happen to our citizens.
I’m hoping this pushes not only the people but Congress and our President to start the process of rethinking the gun laws in this country.
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December 14th, 2012 at 5:40 pm
Yes, go ahead and ban ALL guns. THEN we’ll be safe. /sarcasm
Gun control is BS – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XrNzE39J8E
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Rhyme & Reason Reply:
December 15th, 2012 at 12:35 am
The guns that they use to do shit like this are always legally bought n owned by their parents or relatives. And since they sell locks, that you can bye based on your own discretion, thats just talking in circles.
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iking323 Reply:
December 15th, 2012 at 11:17 am
R.i.p to all those who lost their lives yesterday. And im praying for those families. That dude was mentally disturbed. With that being said we do have the right to bare arms, but the laws do need to be tweaked. There is no logical reason for a regular citizen to have assault rifles at home.
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December 14th, 2012 at 7:00 pm
No, were just gonna circle jerk about guns despite CT and NJ having some of the strictest laws in the nation. Why work on the problem when we can call for reactionary responses to the symptoms.
By the way, this kind of thinking is what got us the patriot act and the PAST 12 FUCKING YEARS OF WAR.
In mass murder incidents, guns kill about the same number per incident as those down with bare hands or knives: guns killed an average of 4.92 victims per mass murder in the United States during the 20th century, just edging out knives, blunt objects, and bare hands, which killed 4.52 people per incident.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2012/07/aurora_shooting_how_did_people_commit_mass_murder_before_automatic_weapons_.html
Keeping that in mind, even if you managed to slow people obtaining guns the death count in these incidents wont lower and may, in fact, increase them if people switch to explosives.
In light of such, it makes arguments about gun control fixing this problem pretty weak.
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December 14th, 2012 at 7:18 pm
Two things really bother me above all else here.
#1. When the story first broke this morning I thought nothing of it. Another school shooting & they said only 2 or 3 people died & NEVER mentioned children. I saw a picture of kids running but just shrugged my shoulders & moved on about my biz, dropping my own child off to school. Other parents felt the same way as myself. It wasn’t until an hour or so later that all media shut down & went to this story & the real numbers came in that this tragedy hit home. WTF DOES IT SAY ABOUT THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN THAT WE CAN BRUSH OFF A SCHOOL SHOOTING BECAUSE WE SEE MASS VIOLENCE SO MUCH THAT WE ARE BECOMING DE-SENSITIZED TO IT? That’s the 32 school shooting in the US SINCE Columbine. Dear God!
#2… My Lil’ Girl, my heart & soul, my best friend, my EVERYTHING is in 1st Grade. Just 6 months ago she was in Kindergarten like all those innocent kids. I know all her friends & classmates & talk with them daily. She has 23 kids in her class. To think that could’ve been them, that an entire classroom of beautiful innocent little children, with all that joy & love, & hopes & dreams…. All gone. There are no words!
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December 14th, 2012 at 11:20 pm
Dear Inffy, I see the despair in some, and the naive in others. There’s no rhyme or reason to many issues, but one thing is for sure, as a whole, we MUST take responsibility for our actions. Whether it be as parents, teachers, brothers, sisters, relatives, or community members. It starts with the uproar of frustration in what harms and/or can harm us, not turn the blind eye. This can happen anywhere, prayers for them brave little souls that will watch over this world of ours.
Sincerely, Moose
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December 15th, 2012 at 6:59 am
Prayers go out to all children and adults who survives this or not. I’m in ny obv but this is just terrible. These poor kids man. The parents I can’t even imagine. Just awful god bless. Just a dark day. So sad. God be with them. What a sick evil thing to do. Rest in piece.
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December 15th, 2012 at 8:10 am
This isn’t about guns its about the mentality of American people enlightened individuals deal with stress and altercations different America is a nation of savages in expensive clothes a place where people put sweaters on dogs and step over homeless people…If you take guns away from civilians they’ll just stab people violence is violence people need to stop labeling it gun violence as if to say no guns no problems theres a thought process before you get to the gun!
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December 15th, 2012 at 8:14 am
” There are 311 million people in the U.S. There are over 200 million guns”
^^did you get this off the opening to Cam’rons “Get ya gun” off killa season?
Guns dont kill people crazy motha fuckas do. Had that entire school been covered in metal detectors, security with gun and these dudes had no guns but wanted to kill we wouldve seen another oklahoma bombing. A killer is a killer and will kill by any means.
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December 15th, 2012 at 11:33 am
I’m certain everyone said a prayer that day.
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December 15th, 2012 at 10:51 pm
Man, this country is going down one seriously scary road. Everyone needs to stop and reflect.
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