Watching the coverage has nearly brought me to tears. I have a first grader and a second grader and I want to go home and hug them.
This makes me so goddamned angry.
[Edited after seeing moderator note.]
Why can’t these fuck wit shooters just off themselves first?
Shooting up an elementary school is horrific.
Yeah. I came to this thread to talk about dead kids, not gun control.
no, the details of what caliber weaponry the shooter was using is much more interesting. so, i suppose the permitted discourse is then: how tragic. here it goes:
how tragic.
maybe homeschooling isn’t such a crazy idea anymore? I just know know what to think about something like this. With 2 almost kindergartners, who you can’t even protect at school, what is a parent supposed to do and how are you supposed to react? What is overreacting?
Don’t you watch Fox News? You can’t discuss gun control right after such a tragedy!!!1!
The shooter was 20 years old, so that probably rules out being a father of one of the kids.
My heart goes out to all the families involved.
I thought I had gotten used to this stuff by now. But an elementary school? How horrible. 
Too bad they killed this asshole. A quick death is too good for him.
Thomas Friedman (the NY Times journalist) once wrote something similar about his own children. He said he was explaining to his teenage kids what the Cuban missile crisis was, and how he had practiced drills in school crawling under desks to survive nuclear war. He thought it would shock his kids, but they just took it casually, and said “yeah, we do something simliar. We have drills called red alert and blue alert. Red means there’s a gunman in the building and we all have to run out. Blue means there’s a gunman outside the building and we all have to stay in the room.”
It’s a weird and frightening world.
I just can’t imagine being one of the parents…my daughter’s 4 and just…the thought of it just tears me up. It sounds like they might have a second person in custody though, still waiting to hear more it seems.
How tragic.
Guess there really isn’t anything more to be said in this thread.
ETA: is it OK to say that if my kid had been among the dead, Wayne LaPierre would need to hire extra bodyguards?
Wrong, all news sources says he was a father of one of the kids. A 20 yr old can have a young child in school.
Homeschooling as a response to sensational school violence would be overreacting. Schools are generally safe places to be, and this event hasn’t changed that.
That being said, I have a son in first grade sitting in his classroom right now. This story hurts my heart so much, but I can’t help refreshing for updates every few minutes. I think it’s probably for the same reason so many other people are doing the same; I just have to know why.
Of course there won’t be a satisfying answer, though. It’s pointless to ask why, when there’s no such thing.
Christ, why does this keep happening? Since this summer, there have been how many public shootings/attempted shootings? What the hell is causing this? What is the matter with our country?
Not much more I can add to this. Just another declaration of ‘how tragic.’
There were two shooters apparently, so the 20-year old may not be the actual father.
They’re now saying he “may have ties to the school”. It’s all not very informative, which makes sense I suppose.
No.
Was anyone’s first instinct to go kill the family of the shooter in turn?
Nobody?
Yeah, um, me neither.
The shooters are the same people who have always been among us.
I’m really feeling more and more that these events should not be so heavily reported/sensationalized.
I’m rambling a bit, but it just seems like the reporting of one event feeds the next.
Not rambling at all, and I think you’re right. The Virginia Tech shooter was fascinated by Columbine while he was a middle school student, himself.