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I can see a crazy shooting adults but murdering little kids at random? It's beyond senseless. Pure evil, the real deal, is the only thing I can come up with.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Which explains a lot.
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NO! This is truly disgusting...
I feel like the tears are filling my eyes right now...
I'd rather have a bad day hunting than a good day working!
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Not even old enough to legally buy a handgun...I am sure the media won't report that!
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Just sickening, I have no words... heart hurts...
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I can't even fathom how demented you'd have to be to do something like this. It makes no sense.
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Hug your kids tight tonight guys, tell them you love them.
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This is so horrible. The madness of it all is impossible to understand. My heart goes out for everyone involved.
�Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program." -- Milton Friedman
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T R U M P W O N !
U L T R A M A G A !
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what in the world could provoking this puck!ng azzhat to do this to little kids? what?????
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This just hurts the heart to the core. Prayers to the families for the strength to make it through this terrible, senseless atrocity. Little kids.. What is wrong with these maniacs?
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There's supposed to be TWO of em',...one croaked, one still at large.
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Damn. I don't have words. Ditto
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I have no words...
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We need to pray for the wounded, pray for the families and friends of the dead, and pray that those who would infringe upon our rights be thwarted.
On the issue of security, in the early 1980s, the county that Little Rock sits in (Pulaski County) had an epidemic of convenience stores being victims of armed robberies. The sheriff, Tommy Robinson, started a program where he would have deputies with shotguns hide in the back of randomly selected convenience stores, and he publicized that at any given time a deputy would be in a convenience store somewhere in Pulaski County. He gave convenience store owners flyers to post at their stores' doorways that had a drawing of a deputy looking down a double barrel shotgun at the viewer of the flyer. Just a little reminder of the danger an armed robber might face. That program resulted in a dramatic drop in the armed robberies. I don't know if the 96% reduction listed in Tommy Robinson's Wikipedia article is totally accurate, but I remember the armed robberies went from frequent (multiple a week in the county) to virtually none.
I agree with the people who have written previously in the thread about the need for increased security at schools and other vulnerable places. That could include having more of a police presence (like Tommy Robinson did with the convenience stores) and/or having appropriately trained teachers covertly armed.
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Obviously, a tragedy with 18 kids & 8 adults killed. I can answer your question about why aren't armed guards at most public areas. Its all about liability. Just look at the Texas Wal-Mart shooting when an off duty deputy sheriff shot a shot lifter. Yes, there is more to the story, but bottom line this will cost Wal-Mart millions. I train security guards & sometimes work as an armed security guard, but not at public buildings. The common thinking is that the insurance premiums for armed guards & resulting liability is higher than the risk of unarmed security guards. All of these recent shootings may cause many to rethink this opinion. I'm pro gun, but you can be assured there will be new gun restrictions passed in many cities & states, as well as possible new Assault weapons legislation. This is another tragedy & one can only be sympathetic for the loved ones that now must bury their dead.
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This is just evil, plain and [bleep]' simple. I cannot begin to fathom how something like this is possible.
"If dogs don't go to heaven, when I die I want to go wherever they went." -Will Rogers
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Damn. I don't have words. Ditto There's not much anyone can say. Sad situation.
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Self-absorbed, fragile, and alienated. Not necessarily mentally ill in the conventional clinical sense.
An element of copy cat. Simply a fashionable crime, a horrific, tragic fad. Hard to avoid in today's world of instant news and publicity.
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There's supposed to be TWO of em',...one croaked, one still at large.
GTC I hope that [bleep] gets what s/he deserves...
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entire kindergarden class is unaccounted for
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