School shooting in America

[Queenie Bee]

What a terrible tragedy
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[pixiguru]

I know it's awful!

[Deleted]

Bloody fruit loops ...

"In Connecticut, rifles and shotguns can be purchased by anyone, without the need for a state permit, according to the National Rifle Association. Any person over 21 can also possess a firearm without a permit."

[beautycat]

,awful

[azzie]

Terrible tragedy

[raid2506]

It is sad, I must be getting old becaused I have started to get angry about the lack of respect they have for fireamrs and human life.

You find this in all our former colonies when the apron strings were cut prematurely.

[Raffles]

Why does it always seem to happen in schools? It's always the innocent that suffer when these lunatics try to take revenge (if that is what it transpires to be). Christmas destroyed for another generation. So sad.

[comfrey]

Apparently the shooters mother was a teacher there

[Ellen]

Tragic news becoming all too frequent, RIP 18 tiny children #icon_hopeless#

[mhyquel]

Dec 14, 2012 20:14:00 GMT raid2506 said:

You find this in all our former colonies when the apron strings were cut prematurely.

Woah. Are you suggesting that there is something inherently superior about British influence? That the savages are better off after receiving a little bit of civility? That it didn't go far enough?

[Queenie Bee]

Must be something in the air today 22 also stabbed in China

m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-20723910

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[Ellen]

Very sad Queenie, another tragedy that's become frequent (in China) recently

[Mary]

So, so sad ...............

[Gordy]

there is so much tragic loss of life all around the world
it tears my heart to shreds when the lives taken have barely begun

[izan]

Sept 24 2011
Some 21,000 children die every day around the world.

That is equivalent to:

1 child dying every 4 seconds
14 children dying every minute
A 2011 Libya conflict-scale death toll every day
A 2010 Haiti earthquake occurring every 10 days
A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring every 11 days
An Iraq-scale death toll every 19–46 days
Just under 7.6 million children dying every year
Some 92 million children dying between 2000 and 2010

The silent killers are poverty, hunger, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes. Despite the scale of this daily/ongoing catastrophe, it rarely manages to achieve, much less sustain, prime-time, headline coverage.


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