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Obama to Visit Town Shattered by School Shooting

Mourners grieve at one of the makeshift memorials for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, December 16, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut.
Mourners grieve at one of the makeshift memorials for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, December 16, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut.
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by: Hmd Imn from: the planet Earth
December 16, 2012 6:33 PM
So sad. I hate to say this but shame on America!
It's a shame that we have to hear these kind of shocking news from America. It just tarnishes the United States of America's image throughout the world. For example we my family heard the news I felt embarrassed so that I couldn't talk about America. I wonder who and where will be next target! You must consider people's reaction in other countries. What are they thinking of U.S right now?! Please, Do not let a punch of robbers make a mess and cause disturbances.

here is Chris de burgh's point of view on this tragedy:

An interesting selection of differing opinions about guns and gun control;it is,however,pointless to repeat the well known and glib phrase "People kill, guns don't,"which is nonsense,of course,and totally obvious!! However,when a country is awash with guns,anyone with a grudge, a mental disturbance or is just plain angry, can do terrible damage to a lot of people in a very short time. Humans have been killing each other in various ways for thousands of years, but as long as there is easy access to lethal weapons, there will be more and more tragedies, as the relentless interest of world-wide media adds fuel to anyone who wants to seek notoriety, even if they die whilst performing these atrocities.


by: Tom from: Louisbourg NS
December 16, 2012 4:06 PM
Americans and guns, LOSERS



by: andrewborovskikh@gmail.co
December 16, 2012 9:58 AM
Before having this comment submitted, I had to have read the forum rules and written a code from the test image. I wonder, the gun enthusiast who had purchased the FOUR assault rifles, was she questioned to read or write so much as anything like this to prove their conformity & correspondence? Rather not. Anything to please the arms dealers…


by: Yoshi from: Sapporo
December 16, 2012 4:39 AM
You should be couragious enough to abandon guns. You should be free from fear at the age of independence war. There are no Indians attacking colonists. You should recongnize there are a lot of countires where citizens have no guns and are getting along with each other and manage to protect their properties and lives. You should learn to trust others before suspect them. You shoud make meaningful actions now. I'm sorry but I think no matter how many times you mourn victims heartilly, they no longer revive. You should build up really safty society where no one even a sick person take gun to kill innocent person.

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by: Jake from: Wisconsin
December 16, 2012 5:30 PM
Yes, Winston. The answer is more guns. If only Nancy Lanza had access to a gun in her home. I mean, besides those three her son took.

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by: winston from: NY
December 16, 2012 1:36 PM
Of course we should, but then not absolutely every single thing in this society would be for sale... and we cant have that.
Guns and war!! oooof!! BIIG business.. As a result, they are not going to disappear anytime soon. I wish they would too.
But in a society like ours, people have to have the ability to protect themselves and their loved ones. Just imagine if someone in that school office had been armed..and trained, they might have gotten lucky and ended it all right there. If only. I rather have a gun and not need it than need it and not have it. -at least in USA 2012. Japan is another story. UK is another story.


by: Christina Head from: Jefferson Ga.
December 16, 2012 12:48 AM
I feel for all the kids and teachers and the families that now will have to have christmas without their little one's and their friends or family members. It causes m heart to hurt with tears because I have a 6 year old grand daughter that I have custody of and have raised her for 6 years and when I read that part about a child being 6 and shot and killed, I looked over my little 6 year old and cried and said to myself that one of those could have been her. There is nothing or no one that can bring these kids or people at the school back but this man if he is still alive needs to be put in prison for life and mabye even the electric chair!!!!!! You hear about school shootings alot more now where it was rare at first. But things are just getting worse!!!! Get ride of your guns folks or you may have to start staying at the school with your children all day to increase the protection of not just your child but the others as well.


by: Pearl from: New Delhi
December 16, 2012 12:40 AM
This is absolutely heart-breaking and shocking. Is it so easy to get guns in the US and practically kill anyone? Everywhere else in the developed world, there are no such absolute rights to own arms. When will Americans wake up to this? You dont have to lose a loved one to take action.


by: Oscar
December 15, 2012 11:17 PM
God bless America and all those parents and relatives including the familes of the teachers who lost their lives.

Please give them all the strength to somehow overcome their irreplaceable loss and their grief at such a tragic time.


by: lshaikh from: Wellington
December 15, 2012 11:06 PM
Why would anyone need to buy 4 guns ? !!!!! What are they trying to achieve ? how can someone buy more than one gun and not be questioned or atleast be on someones radar ?
I pray god give this beautiful community and all who are suffering right now the strength and courage to heal and overcome this tragedy


by: KayCT from: connecticut
December 15, 2012 11:04 PM
What needs to be done and done now in Connecticut is to prevent anyone from owning the amount of sophisticated, automatic weapons that the shooter's mother seems to have owned. I do not own a gun nor does anyone in my extended family, but I would not try to end the reasonable ownership of guns. However,being a gun enthusiast, HOARDER, should not be legal and should be part of the information collected at the time of sale of such weapons. One is enough and maybe too many for any sane person.


by: russ from: virginia
December 15, 2012 8:43 PM
You have an article about the police releasing the victim's names and you do not put the names in the article, or even a link to the names. Come on, guys.

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by: Patricia Colaneri from: Albany, NY
December 15, 2012 11:09 PM
We do not need to exploit these little children or their heartbroken families by revealing their names. I applaud all the media so far that have not produced a list of names of the children. Please, let these people grieve privately. It is the one thing that we are all able to do for them.

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