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Originally Posted by cologal
yes but cocaine did that to people who chose to use it, not a classroom full of 5 year olds.
I support the ban of high capacity clips, auto and semi automatic weapons and body armor.
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I'm with you.
Just imagining the fear that those innocent kindergarteners, as well as the other grades of children, experienced from a deranged youth who obviously was mentally ill..........makes me think of my own grandbabies.
God only knows why his mom, knowing his condition, would even have owned guns in the first place.
That community and that part of Connecticut is a lovely place, where people moved to live in peace and harmony and raise their innocent children in a safe environment.
Someone else mentioned that we are all supposed to (nowadays) tolerate people like the shooter and it is part of the problem. Even in our town, we know of "youth" and "middle aged" folks who are all on psychotropic drugs due to mental issues. Sometimes a cocktail of drugs.
These drugs all interact differently, depending on one's system.
We've been told by a local sheriff (neighbor) to lock our doors and be careful if dealing with a certain one or two individuals.....one a teenager, the other a preppy guy who graduated Harvard. Go figure. They come in all shapes and sizes and ages. No one knows what "meds" their neighbor is on or what cocktail of drugs......and when they are going to explode.
..........usually venting their misplaced anger on totally innocent little angels such as those in Connecticut yesterday..........it's very sad for the parents, especially leading up to Christmas......which will always be a sad reminder, year after year.
My prayers also went out to the families of the teachers and principal, etc.,having educators in our family and extended family. One never imagines when they are going to step into a schoolroom setting and experience pure evil. I envisioned my son when he was in kindergarten and our daughter, ditto.......and all of our grandchildren, ditto.......and it was heart wrenching to think of them mowed down by guns........of any kind.
My husband has always been a hunter and is for hunter's rights and citizens rights to "bear arms"........but it's how do you keep them out of the hands of the deranged folks? We also remember Columbine in Colorado as if it were yesterday..........and Virginia Tech, etc., etc.