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This guy shot his mother gals. She worked at the school
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Yes County, I have never heard of a female shooter. Violent games are bad, true, but the easy access and availability of these weapons has GOT to be addressed by our elected officials.Comment
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One of the little girls told her brother that they could hear screaming over the intercome while they were huddled in the closet. No, no child should go through that.
I just want to close the rest of the day and get my own kids home with me. I'm just spent and want to have a good, good cry. The radio DJ was just talking about it and could barely get through what she was saying, you could here the tears in her voice.Each day is a fresh start
Never look back on regrets
Live life to the fullest
We only get one shot at this!!
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One thing is for sure, I will definitely be getting my concealed hand gun license now. Magnolia, I agree we do need tighter gun laws, but the fact that a gun is illegal will not keep it out of the hands of a lunatic. We need tighter video game laws. We are a free counrty, but we need to hold ourselves to higher standards and morale. We've always had guns, but these young boys who have grown up going on fantasy murder sprees are now murdering us in real life!Comment
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I heard it was two pistols (which are ridiculously hard to get compared to assault rifles).
How incredibly sad, this is why I am A FOR armed guards at schools. To stop this maniac in his tracks, an armed cop/security guard WITH a pistol.Comment
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This is so sad, my thought and prayers are with the families. Nowhere is safe anymore!Comment
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:'( I just wanna huddle all of my daycare kids up and hug them. The pain the parents must be feeling... I cannot imagine.Everyday is a new day, with its own challenges, but even the bad days are good.lovethisComment
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Children who witness violence usually grow up to be violent adults. With that I digress to the original request which is to pray for our children. Whatever it takes gun laws or laws of what we let our children watch with their little eyes..I pray that they all have a safer future.Comment
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No but mass shootings didn't happen till the invention of video games and the technology we have today. I personally don't think people woke up one day and thought-hey lets start shooting up at a school, mall, college, etc. Something had to give them an idea to do it.
I do remember when I was a little girl, I mightnot have been born there was a shooting at a college from a bell tower. The thing was though there wasn't one 2-3 days later. You didn't hear of another one for 20-30 years later.
I really don't want this to turn into a debate. Lets remember 18 families lost children today, several families lost a father or a mother, and a son/mother was lost and we may never know why. If we do find out it probably won't make sense to us but lets keep them close to our hearts/prayers right now if not forever.Each day is a fresh start
Never look back on regrets
Live life to the fullest
We only get one shot at this!!
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The Mom of the shooter was a kindergarden teacher at the school. She and her kindergarden students are the majority of the victims. The shooter attended the same elementary school as a child.Comment
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Mass shootings did happen before video games, you just may not have heard about them as readily. The media is our biggest problem these days. They sensationalize every story to the point that it has almost becomes glamorized. They actually had the nerve to interview children yesterday!!!
This shooting is truly heartbreaking! Our prayers are with the families!Comment
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From what I got out the story, the majority of the guns this guy used were registered to the mom. Why in the world does a Kindergarten teacher need those types of weapons?
I also heard he shot her at home, then drove to the school.
My heart is broken, and I've been unable to get this out of my head. I had nightmares last night too. I have 3 children of my own, same ages as the children who died yesterday. I am haunted by the visions of these little children being shot, being scared, and much more. I am also brought to tears thinking about these families in 10 days, with gifts under their tree for their deceased children, or maybe not.
This is just so sad.
ETA: Does anyone on this forum know any of the children or teachers who were in this school?
I want to say, that this thread started out as prayers, but quickly turned into a blame game. IMO, blaming video games, or anything else doesn't change the fact that this happened. We may never find out the reason why this person did this. He clearly was incredibly F'ed up to be able to walk into a school and murder teachers and children between the ages of 5 and 10. One thing I can truly blame for incidents like this, is the media. The coverage breeds copy cats. And these poor parents/families dealing with this can't turn on the tv, or go online without seeing this in their face constantly, causing so much more pain, having them re-live it over and over and over again. Seeing it makes me want to vomit, hearing it makes me want to vomit. But I had to come on daycare.com, and see if any of the members on here were affected by it personally. My deepest condolences.
For me right now, morbid as it is, I keep thinking what if this was my kids school, what if it was my kids that were shot. And I am trying my hardest to get this out of my head, as I can't live with the thought, and I just want to keep my kids home forever.Last edited by dEHmom; 12-15-2012, 10:56 AM.Comment
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I thought it was ridiculous that the Sheriff at the news conference this morning had to literally plead with the media to leave the victims' families alone with their grief. And you just know that there will be many who ignore that plea and try to get to them anyway
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I have been praying all day for the families involved.Comment
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