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Connecticut school shooting.

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OscarPistoriusBitontheside · 14/12/2012 17:59

Yet another school shooting in the USA. Elementary school this time. Latest is 27 dead of which 18 are children. It happened at a kindergarten class. Terrible.

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Witchety · 14/12/2012 17:59

Awful! Just seen it on the news

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AnyaKnowIt · 14/12/2012 18:00

Just watching on the news, heartbreaking Sad

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Whistlingwaves · 14/12/2012 18:00

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LauriesFairyonthetreeeatsCake · 14/12/2012 18:02

Oh good god, that's awful. Tiny,tiny children Sad

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AuntieStella · 14/12/2012 18:06

Dreadful event: far from clear what happened, nor number/age of casualities.

I hope some of these early accounts prove to be exaggerated.

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Aerobreaking · 14/12/2012 18:11

Awful, they just said an entire class a currently unaccounted for :(

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Rottenluck · 14/12/2012 18:13

Just awful. Those poor children and their families.

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mockeveryweek · 14/12/2012 18:18

This is heartbteaking Sad

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chandellina · 14/12/2012 18:25

Maybe Obama can go after gun rights now, but it's probably an impossible battle.

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NuclearStandoff · 14/12/2012 18:44

perhaps this will be what it takes to get proper gun control laws introduced.

Thinking about it makes me feel physically sick.

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GreatCongas · 14/12/2012 18:48

There's just no words are there Sad

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AuntieStella · 14/12/2012 19:02

Current story on BBC website .

It looks as if the death toll is indeed in the high 20s.

Sad

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TheCrackFox · 14/12/2012 19:04

This is just so sad, those poor children.

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MurderOfGoths · 14/12/2012 19:15

This is horrific :( How on earth could anyone walk into a school and start shooting small children?

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BertieBotts · 14/12/2012 19:21

Sick and horrendous :(

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AnyaKnowIt · 14/12/2012 19:34

Sky news are saying that the shooter shot his father at home, his mother was a teacher at the school who has also been killed

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Abitwobblynow · 14/12/2012 19:39

What is it about schools? What is the symbolism of this?

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telsa · 14/12/2012 19:40

It is so upsetting. I am just back from the US, where you see signs at the Mall that say 'Please leave your guns at home'. A mad mad country.

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Witchety · 14/12/2012 19:40

Symbolism of schools? Failure.... They have been failed?

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5hounds · 14/12/2012 20:38

:'( no words. Latest on news is the shooters mum was a teacher there she's dead, aswell as head teacher and shooters father, 22children, the gf is missing and his younger brother has been arrested as was in woods next to school. Awful

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alcibiades · 14/12/2012 21:12

It could be that there's a symbolism involved in shootings on campuses, but the cynical part of me suspects that campus/mall shootings are because that's where there are lots of people in fairly confined areas. IMNSHO, massacres like this are rarely about despair, they're about power.

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wannaBe · 14/12/2012 21:22

but let's give every fucking tom dick and nutter aa gun because the americans should have the right to bear arms. Angry Angry Angry frankly I don't actually give a stuff if these people are mentally ill (as I'm sure will be reported at some point) how many innocent lives is it going to take before something is done... oh, as many as it takes, because everyone in America should have the right to own a gun and to hell wiith the innocent people who have to pay the price for that, time and time and time again....

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ZZZenAgain · 14/12/2012 21:25

20 dc and 7 adults

Dreadful. SHoot ing kindergarten children, how could that happen?

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MrsChristmasVamos · 14/12/2012 21:26

Just so sad. Sad

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