This is so fucking sad. I can’t stop weeping. I can’t imagine the fear those poor children must have gone through.
I keep picturing christmas trees piled with gifts that will now go unopened. Just another terrible reminder the parents will have to cope with.
They often say there was someone else. They said it after the mall shooting earlier this week, they said it after the theater shooting. They said it after the Kennedy assassination. I think it’s just a fear tactic to keep the lookie-loos away while they attend to business.
BBC has just reported the new development, quoting AP, that authorities investigating the scene inside the school have found more guns on the premises, but they’re not saying how many or what type.
Based on what’s currently being reported, it sounds like the shooter was involved in a personal vendetta against his family, which makes it unlikely that the guy in the woods was involved. He probably was just some guy out for a walk who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Now the Beeb’s been reporting the shooter was autistic. I hope they’re not going to be focusing too much on that aspect. The teacher friend I mentioned in Connecticut has an autistic son herself, about the same age as the shooter, and he probably has enough problems as it is.
They even managed to dig up an old babysitter of the Lanzas, some guy who sat with the brothers eight or 10 years ago, and they were asking him about the autism angle. All he could say was that Adam definitely acted “somewhat different” from other children his age.
^this
Similar school attack in China. 23 kids injured. Nut job used a knife. No reports yet on how many kids eventually died.
There’s so many disturbed people out there that are just time bombs waiting to go off.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57559179/china-school-knife-attack-leaves-23-injured/
Why? If there’s a chance that his autism had something to do with it, we may be able to prevent something like this in the future. That seems like an important aspect to investigate, and I say that with multiple cousins with various issues with autism.
None. If you read the story, you’ll see that none of the injuries were life-threatening.
nm. What MsWhatsit said.
I agree. It’s just I don’t want to see this turn into some sort of backlash against autistic people in general. People can be stupid sometimes.
reporting is still incomplete.
first the shooter’s mother was killed at the school. then she was killed at home. i heard one report that she wasn’t a teacher but maybe some other relationship may have existed with the school.
the school’s administration and teachers were heroes in the protection of students.
It seems pretty sure at this point that the mother was killed at home and was a teacher at the school.
I checked on the Web, and it looks like we passed within 30 miles of Newtown on the train back in April.
Yeah, there was some hint of this earlier. Wonder what the truth will be.
A hint? Looks pretty certain now. But then, we are talking about reporters.
The fact that this is only the second worst school shooting in American history says something terrible about our society. The little kids talking about the story on television are incredibly sad.
One little boy they keep showing on BBC actually seems pretty pumped up.
Nitpick: “Whomever” did not buzz him in. “Whoever” did.
Was a usage nitpick in a thread like this really necessary?
Yeah, when I posted that it was hours earlier and everyone else was reporting she was at the school.