School shooting in CT

[Steve Dallas]

School stabbing today in China too...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-...es-23-injured/

This has been ongoing there since 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_...0%E2%80%932011)

[Gio Bella]

I live in Orange Connecticut and have been a school teacher for more than 25 years in Bridgeport Connecticut, I cannot express in words how I feel inside at this moment. I have taught thousands of students from pre-k through 12th grade and still cannot fathom why evil people can commit these acts of violence on innocent children.
I know I will not sleep for many night just thinking what those beautiful children went through in their last moments on this earth.
I pray for the children, parents, the community and the nation as we will mourn this tragedy for a very long time. As parents please hug each of your children a little tighter this evening and pray for the families that are left to endure the pain of losing their precious children.

Gio

[cornerspeed92]

In the animal world the lame and the *ucked up ones get eaten!!!! it's time to thin out the herds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[trewyn15]

It is crazy, I find it sad also that he was able to take his own life... it's too easy, he deserves to go through the pain that the parents and friends of the children will go through.

Prayers to all the families and those that are involved.

[VR Baron]

This is so unbelievable. My heart go's out to all the families and everyone in the town. This guy's motive's may never be known, and His brother said he had a history of mental illness. Look at all the major shootings we have had, the perps were all Mentally off to some extent. Amazing that people like that get a hold of firearms so easily, not thats it's hard of course, but two 9mm's, not whatever he could get ahold of.

[Cam2011]

Unbelievable how sad this is. To think I was there just yesterday to do some work, and thought to myself what a happy place this is, all decked out for the holidays, and within the scope of what amounts to minutes some deranged idiot ruined these poor peoples lives. Words cannot express the sorrow I feel.

[rush2112]

I feel for the families. The grief must be overwhelming. I rarely pray but tonight I will.

[mjrracing97]

This is not the time or place for a debate on gun ownership or rights.
Jamie, Our thoughts and prayers go out to you and to all those families affected by this tragedy. One should only think of the little ones lost who had yet to give so much and of the dreams they had for a future they will never have. I cry because of the loss of life on a regular basis but I cry today for the loss of innocence.

[collinsRS]

I was going to reference the bath school house disaster myself.

China has banned guns and in a 1.5 year span..take a read:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoo...0%E2%80%932011)

And then JUST TODAY:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2...ck-school.html


I don't own guns....but taking them away isn't the answer. Idiots will find a way

[jd10013]

you can't legislate awy monsters or the attrocities they commit. banning guns wouldn't do any good. Timothy McVeigh killed 7X as many people and he didn't use a single bullet.

[Mike E]

I pray for the children and the parents.

[irocnroll]

Originally Posted by collinsRS

I was going to reference the bath school house disaster myself.

China has banned guns and in a 1.5 year span..take a read:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoo...0%E2%80%932011)

And then JUST TODAY:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2...ck-school.html


I don't own guns....but taking them away isn't the answer. Idiots will find a way

The attack may have still happened but those kids live to see another day.

[GaBoy25]

Originally Posted by irocnroll

The attack may have still happened but those kids live to see another day.

Straight from the wiki

April 2010

Just a few hours after the execution of Zheng Minsheng in neighboring Fujian Province,[5] in Leizhou,[6] Guangdong another knife-wielding man named Chen Kangbing, 33 (陈康炳)[7] at Hongfu Primary School wounded 16 students and a teacher.[4] Chen Kangbing had been a teacher at a different primary school in Leizhou;[7] he was sentenced to death by a court in Zhanjiang in June.[8]
On April 29 in Taixing,[3] Jiangsu, 47-year-old Xu Yuyuan went to Zhongxin Kindergarten[9] and stabbed 28 students, two teachers and one security guard;[4] most of the Taixing students were 4 years old.[10]
On April 30, Wang Yonglai used a hammer to cause head injury to preschool children in Weifang,[3] Shandong, then used gasoline to commit suicide by self-immolation.[4]
[edit]May 2010

An attacker named Wu Huanming (吴环明), 48, killed seven children and two adults and injured 11 other persons with a cleaver at a kindergarten in Hanzhong, Shaanxi on May 12, 2010;[3] early reports were removed from the internet in China, for fear that mass coverage of such violence can provoke copycat attacks.[3][11] The attacker later committed suicide at his house; he was the landlord of the school,[12] Shengshui Temple private kindergarten, and had been involved in an ongoing dispute with the school administrator about when the school would move out of the building.[12]
On May 18, 2010 at Hainan Institute of Science and Technology (海南科技职业学院), a vocational college in Haikou, Hainan, more than 10 men[13] charged into a dormitory wielding knives around 2:30 am;[14] after attacking the security guard and disabling security cameras, 9 students were injured, 1 seriously.[14] The local men attacked the dorm in an act of revenge and retaliation against college students following conflict the previous day at an off-campus food stall in which 4 students were injured, for a total of 13.[15]
[edit]August 2010

On 4 August 2010, 26-year-old Fang Jiantang (方建堂) slashed more than 20 children and staff with a 60 cm knife, killing 3 children and 1 teacher, at a kindergarten in Zibo, Shandong province. Of the injured, 3 other children and 4 teachers were taken to the hospital. After being caught Fang confessed to the crime; his motive is not yet known.[16]
[edit]August 2011

Eight children, all aged four or five,[17] were hurt in Minhang District, Shanghai when an employee at a child-care centre for migrant workers slashed them with a box-cutter.[18]
[edit]September 2011

In September 2011, a young girl and three adults taking their children to nursery school were killed in Gongyi,[19] Henan by 30-year-old Wang Hongbin with an axe.[20] Another child and an adult were seriously wounded but survived.[21] The suspect is a local farmer who is suspected of being mentally ill.[22]

I'm not for violence period but these type of personal and vicious attacks seem even worse...a meat cleaver? Box cutter? I'd rather be shot. Am I missing your point?

[Bonanza7]

Originally Posted by Camper

parenting is pretty bad these days :(

As a recently retired teacher...I can say that parenting is almost non-existent these days. MTV and video games does the parenting. Schools aren't allowed to even express opinions. Although some teachers do it anyway, and get called on the carpet for it.