I don’t feel like writing about anything today in light of the unspeakable tragedy that occurred this morning in Connecticut. What is there to say? Who could pull the trigger on a five year old? It’s sickening. I’m sad and angry. And I just wish I could give all those people their lives back. I wish I could fill up the hole in those parents’ hearts. I wish I had any hope whatsoever that we could, as a society, do something to make tragedies like this less common and less deadly. But I don’t even know if we can force the House of Representatives to hold a hearing on this massacre. I’m just feeling frustrated.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
I heard sketchy details at lunch time. Have been in meetings all day. Just this very minute I looked at the news on my way home and saw the scope of this tragedy. I am sitting in the parking lot of a gas station, with tears streaming down my face. I am sick to my stomach right now. I have no words. Only tears.
Note how the GOP had nothing to say today. Did the NRA forbid them from expressing an opinion?
I feel the same I can’t think of anything to say. Its hopeless. This is so sad.
NRA headquarters is at 11250 Waples Mill Rd
Fairfax, VA 22030. You can see it from Rte 66 west of D.C.
We should hold a silent vigil outside the building.
If not just drive by and give them the finger “for all the orphans and widows” and the babies that died today so these assholes can have unlimited access to deadly weapons their f*cking toys.
I’m just numb. I sent my little girl off to kindergarten this morning just like I do five days a week, just like those parents in Connecticut did today. I’m just numb.
My heart breaks for these lost lives. It’s a nightmare, a recurring one from which we can’t seem to wake. Until we look at what drives these young men to such levels of anger and how they have easy access to dangerous weapons, we’re wasting our breath.
And we’ll continue to shed tears for the victims.
The only thing I’m thinking is that the 2nd Amendment should be revoked. Full stop. Forever.
That’s exactly what I put on FB today.
Think enshrining guns into our Constitution is a big mistake. If we want to have laws about guns they need to be flexible enough to be addressed through our normal lawmaking processes, however flawed they may be.
Neither does the NRA:
NRA Twitter Goes Silent
I know people in Connecticut. A lot of people.
As fucked up as this massacre is I was surprised to find out this was far worse and long before this shit was so common.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_bombing
What a fucking moronic comment.
Sorry to offend. I was just surprised to learn that as evil as today’s actions are, there was something even worse . And that while we now have about 20 massacres are year dangerous angry people who want to everyone around them is hardly new.
Maybe that is all the more reason to not have such weapon iced nation.
Your comment remains fucking moronic. Your explanation is even more moronic.
Relax. He just linked to a school massacre of young children with a higher body count. I didn’t know about it. Did you?
What is the point of linking to a massacre from 1927?
I guess that this stuff is with us always.
Point? Gee. Take a guess. Sorry if it flew over your head.
What is your point in being so fucking rude?
So, 20 kids and 6 adults are murdered by some lunatic with military grade weaponry. Your response? “Buck up, buckaroo – this stuff happens all the time”.
Yep, I just love perspective.
Its not necessary to see it that way, i didnt and i still dont. I get that you are shocked and angry.
Everyone will react differently, and people are misunderstanding reactions from each other.
nice post
writting an essay
Nope. That is not what I meant at all. Precisely the opposite.
As bad as this massacre was it wasn’t the worst, which is probably a reason to take it very seriously and get real about how we have weaponized the nation. This wasn’t an outlying situation or isolated event that will likely correct itself. Sadly. More kids are going to die unless we change something.
So maybe you shouldn’t assume the worst in people before hurling obscene insults.
Dick.
My god.
I really need the nets to stop with the damn interviewing of children. Wolf Blitzer made the disclaimer that they only talked to children with their parents permission.
So fuckin’ what. How about just deciding to not do on camera interviews with lil children about this shit.
The school official made a damn effort to try and shield the kids who were evacuated out of the school from the massacre that had unfolded, reports are that they told kids to walk single file and close their eyes as they walk passed the massacre in the principal’s office.
I hope the image of those kids haunts those who interviewed them and put them on cameras.
Ugh.
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Cross-posted from my diary – Massacre at CT Elementary School Gunman Kills 20 Kids
Hadn’t followed news today so just saw this incomprehensible story here, right now.
Our gun culture seems intent on seeing just how low it can go, how revolting and nauseating the next gun massacre can be. And for what? Some cockamamie screwball notion that the Founders imagined gun nuts to be the first line of defense against intrusive gub’mint? Seems kinda theoretical (not to mention insane) when weighed against mandating that anyone who appears remotely sane can buy multiple semi-automatic military weapons whenever they’d like, thus resulting in the extreme atrocity of today. And there will always be more massacres, because people who own guns tend to kill people with their guns—incredible, but true!
The NRA and the gun nut culture that it has spawned and protects and enables already has so much blood on its hands that it really doesn’t care how many more barrels are spilled. And as I say, FOR WHAT??!! What is the goddam supposed national benefit to set opposite all these dead CHILDREN, Wayne Lapierre? Let’s hear it…
And don’t forget our five fine “conservative” male activists masquerading as “justices”—they ruled that the second amendment creates an absolute constitutional right to have as many weapons in your home as you want, and that no state or local gub’mint may interfere with this (made up) right of “personal protection”—and they had to overrule prior Supreme Court cases to do so. All of which seems a long way away from the state militias that the amendment actually speaks of, but who the hell cares, right, Antonin S and John Roberts? Your kids never have to run any risks from gun nuts, do they?
And the rest of us rabble can watch this totally predictable gun mayhem with horror and wretching, while the NRA and its gun party, the Repubs, and the braindead “conservative” movement, conveniently keep mum after every massacre and wait for the corporate press to change the subject from this latest gun butchery. Nothin’ to say, so sorry for the victims, price of “freedom”, nothin’ to be done, unfortunately etc, etc. Now that’s obscene.
And there is nothing to stop those fuckers at SCOTUS from removing ALL restrictions. There is nothing to stop them from allowing full automatic weapons, for instance. Nothing.
Servile rebellion, not intrusive government. Think Denmark Vesey. Nat Turner….
Are you tired of this shit? Have you had enough? Are you tired of massacre after massacre, and the NRA and their stooges telling you that we have no choice but to suck it up and endure this shit?
Are you tired of losers stockpiling thousands of rounds of ammunition? That guy in CO did that before shooting up the theatre. Are you tired of losers buying high-cap magazines at gun shows, even though they are mentally ill and have orders filed against them? The guy at VTU did that – bought the high-cap magazines at a gun show.
Are you tired of the NRA running the country?
Yes. See my front paged story just posted.
Yes, I am tired.
I’m waiting with bated breath for some fucking nut to try to get a law passed that requires teachers to carry and take shooting courses.
Louis Gohmert springs to mind.
Too late.
The law in CT allows teachers to carry. Similar to the law passed in MI last night.
Didn’t work.
I too feel numb tonight.. I am quite sure that as the NRA has argued countless times, “people kill people”. I’m more convinced however that a person with a gun/s can kill more rapidly, impulsively, effentially, easily and in greater numbers than a person with some other commonly available weapon like a knife. If that person had walked into the elementary school today with a knife, lots more people would still be alive. People with guns kill people. Giving more people guns will kill more people. When we we ever learn? If Jesus were walking with us today, he would not be packing heat, of that I am certain.
Easy access to guns has created a cultural attitude where using a gun is the answer to whatever problem is troubling you. For some, guns aren’t just the answer, they’re the best/only answer.