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    Everyone go love your families!

    I'm sure everyone has probably heard by now about the tragic events that took place this morning in Connecticut! First, let me say that my prayers go out to everyone who was involved.. the families of those who lost a child this morning, the families of the teachers and principal, and the parents and siblings of a 24 year old man who made a horrible decision!

    It's times like these that we need to remind ourselves how lucky we are to have the air in our lungs, and friends and family to love, and to know what it's like to be loved! I, for one, and going to love on my family today like I have forgotten to so many times in the past.. like I should love them every day of their lives. I urge you all to do the same! Take a step back and remember what really matters in this life!

    Also, it's real easy to start pointing fingers and talking about motives, and what a horrible person this guy was! It makes me sick too how someone could get it in their head that shooting a bunch of kids is a good idea! I just keep reminding myself that Christ died for him too, and that heaven is weeping over his soul! Remember that he has a family, and that they are hurting as well!

    I love you all!
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    Holy ****. Just heard of this now.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/ny...hool.html?_r=0


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    December 14, 2012


    27 Killed in Connecticut Shooting, Including 18 Children

    By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM


    A gunman killed 26 people, 18 of them small children, in a shooting on Friday morning at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., about 65 miles northeast of New York City, a law enforcement official said.

    The gunman, who was believed to be in his 20s, walked into a classroom where his mother was a teacher. He shot and killed her and then shot 18 students in the classroom. He also shot seven other adults, and then killed himself inside the school. Various news outlets identified the shooter as Ryan Lanza. The shooting ranks among the worst in recent United States history.

    A 9-year-old student said he was in the gym when the shooting erupted.

    “We were in the gym, and I heard really loud bangs,'’ said the boy, as he stood shivering and weeping outside the school with his father’s arms d****d around him. “We thought that someone was knocking something over. And we heard yelling, and we heard gunshots. We heard lots of gunshots. We heard someone say, ‘Put your hands up.’ I heard, ‘Don’t shoot.’ We had to go into the closet in the gym. Then someone came and told us to run down the hallway. There were police at every door. There were lots of people crying and screaming.'’

    Another student at the school told an NBC affiliate in Connecticut: “I was in the gym and I heard like seven loud booms, and the gym teachers told us to go in the corner and we huddled. We all heard these booming noises, and we started crying. So the gym teachers told us to go into the office where no one could find us. Then a police officer told us to run outside.”

    State police said the Newtown police called them shortly after 9:30 a.m., according to Lt. J. Paul Vance of the Connecticut State Police. “On- and off-duty troopers responded to the school, and with Newtown police immediately upon arrival entered the school and began an active shooter search,” Lieutenant Vance said.

    Meredith Artley, the managing editor of CNN.com, said that someone who works at the school told her the shooting happened in the hallway. “She described it as a ‘Pop, pop, pop,'” Ms. Artley said. “She said three people went out into the hall and only one person came back, the vice principal, she said, who was shot in the leg or the foot, who came crawling back. She cowered under the table and called 911. She never saw the shooting. There must have been a hundred rounds.”

    President Obama was briefed on the shooting at 10:30 a.m., the White House said.

    Danbury Hospital said it was treating three patients from the shooting scene, according to its Facebook page. The hospital, which is not far from the elementary school, said it was on lockdown.

    At the hospital, stunned-looking personnel in white coats looked shaken as they gathered in small groups talking about the shooting. In a corner near the gift shop, one woman comforted a weeping colleague.

    In the coffee shop, a few customers finished their sandwiches at the lunch counter and the cashier wiped tears from her eyes as she rang up customers.

    In a mostly empty fifth-floor waiting room, three women watched local coverage of the tragedy, shaking their heads at each new horrifying detail.

    Gov. Dannel P. Malloy arrived at the scene of the shooting on Friday afternoon.

    The school, located among wooded hills and suburban tracts in Fairfield County, 12 miles east of Danbury, serves kindergarten through fourth grade. The school has about 700 students.

    “It’s just a little country school,'’ said Robert Place, 65, as he stood near the scene. “The look is very ‘50s or ‘60s. One floor. It’s always had a good reputation. People come to Newtown for the schools.'’

    The school’s principal, Dawn Hochsprung, was reportedly one of those shot. But at the home of her daughter Cristina Hassinger, in Oakville, Conn., the family was still awaiting any news of her fate.

    “We’re looking for any hope,” said Ryan Hassinger, the son-in-law of the principal. “If she’s in the hospital, any chance is better.”

    He said that his wife, Cristina, 28, and “her sister are there now,” with Connecticut state troopers, and that he and other relatives were awaiting word on any news.

    “I looked on Twitter and it says that she is passed,” said Mr. Hassinger. But, he added, the family was “just waiting.”

    A photograph published by a local newspaper, The Newtown Bee, showed a line of children being escorted out of the school with some of the children crying.

    In front of a senior center next door to the school, a 20-year-old woman was with her 4-year-old sister, who was in the school at the time of the shooting. The older woman came to pick up her younger sister along with their mother. The girl had her arms and legs wrapped around her older sister.

    When a reporter asked the woman what the little girl knew of what had happened, the woman said, “Absolutely nothing, and we don’t plan to tell her anything.”


    Reporting was contributed by Peter Applebome, Robert Davey, Elizabeth Maker and Kristin Hussey Zisson from Connecticut, and Al Baker, Andy Newman, Jennifer Preston and Wendy Ruderman from New York.
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    Very nice WF, I really wish my kids were coming here after school today, but they go to their mother's house after school.

    Viscious, that story made my eyes tear up and put a huge lump in my throat. I can't stand to hear about any innocents getting hurt, and children are on a whole nother level.

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    Quote Originally Posted by white frog View Post
    I just keep reminding myself that Christ died for him too, and that heaven is weeping over his soul!
    It all made sense up until this point. Not trying to be a douche here, what happened is horrible, but uhhhh... Yeah. Anyways.

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    Unhappy I don't usually say much here but I have to say...

    "God bless everyone mourning the loss of a loved one today. To be taken in such a cruel way, to lose someone so quickly, just devastating."
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    Hey Tony

    Jesus loves you

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    200 millions of weapons in USA... serious guy's.... maybe time to put law no ??

    in france no way, no weapons like this.... human are not ready to have a weapon... time to shot ur constitution... uselees... i have ear that : we need to give weapon at professor.. hey serious.. lol.. put dow all weapon.. that a good way trust me...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crissyart View Post
    "God bless everyone mourning the loss of a loved one today. To be taken in such a cruel way, to lose someone so quickly, just devastating."
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    ++1000, well said

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    Quote Originally Posted by NTM View Post
    200 millions of weapons in USA... serious guy's.... maybe time to put law no ??

    in france no way, no weapons like this.... human are not ready to have a weapon... time to shot ur constitution... uselees... i have ear that : we need to give weapon at professor.. hey serious.. lol.. put dow all weapon.. that a good way trust me...
    Get off your high horse! This is not the time or the place for your comments! I work 5-10 minutes from where this happened! I drive through Newtown on a daily basis and know people who are feeling this loss. It is not the gun that killed these children, it is the man (if that's what you want to call him). Perhaps if parents would be better to their children and pay more attention to them and the signs, this tragedy wouldn't of happened. I was in tears yesterday driving to work past Newtown. Keep your comments about our constitution to yourself or in another thread! I ache as I type this and am almost in tears again. I have family and friends that live in Newtown. Please just offer them your prayers and keep them in your hearts. We will persevere but it will take the love of a community and no more hate! God bless everyone! (That includes the Lanza family). This was a dark dark day for everyone.....

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    Feel free to discuss and debate the gun aspect in this thread in the OT section. http://www.funzio.com/forum/showthre...-in-school-2.0

    The first was closed but this is the resurrected thread for discussing US policy vs other countries policy on guns freedoms etc.

    Please leave these threads for mourning of the loss

    http://www.funzio.com/forum/showthre...-in-school-2.0

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    Thank-you Baroness! And just so everyone knows, in case you didn't, it was Adam Lanza not his brother Ryan. Ryan was falsely accused as he was at work in NJ. I pray for him as well.

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    Hey Col...my heart goes out to you...the proximity has to make this all the more real for you. I welled up a few times thinking about this but i am quite removed from the frontlines...can only imagine being there in the flesh and how that must feel...

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