Connecticut school shooting - Page 35

On December 15 2012 14:12 Locke- wrote:
This is tragic.
Also, the people's reaction to rumor and false news is disgusting: http://mashable.com/2012/12/14/mass-effect-facebook-shooting/

On December 15 2012 14:06 bo1b wrote:

Animals kill each other outside of feeding purposes, certain animals rape each other as well. No animal develops techniques to help each other on the scale of say a doctor.

No matter how cute it might be to throw out a blanket statement of animals being better then humans, they really are not.

Adam Lanza of Newtown, Connecticut was a child of the suburbs and a child of divorce who at age 20 still lived with his mother.
This morning he appears to have started his day by shooting his mother Nancy in the face, and then driving to nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School armed with at least two handguns and at least one semi-automatic rifle.
There, before turning his gun on himself, he shot and killed 20 children, who President Obama later described as between five and 10 years of age. Six adults were also killed at the school. Nancy Lanza was found dead in her home.
A relative told ABC News that Adam was "obviously not well."
Family friends in Newtown also described the young man as troubled and described Nancy as very rigid. "[Adam] was not connected with the other kids," said one friend.
State and federal authorities believe his mother may have once worked at the elementary school where Adam went on his deadly rampage, although she was not a teacher, according to relatives, perhaps a volunteer.
Nancy and her husband Peter, Adam's father, divorced in 2009. When they first filed for divorce in 2008, a judge ordered that they participate in a "parenting education program."
Peter Lanza, who drove to northern New Jersey to talk to police and the FBI, is a vice president at GE Capital and had been a partner at global accounting giant Ernst & Young.
Adam's older brother Ryan Lanza, 24, has worked at Ernst & Young for four years, apparently following in his father's footsteps and carving out a solid niche in the tax practice. He too was interviewed by the FBI. Neither he nor his father is under any suspicion.
"[Ryan] is a tax guy and he is clean as a whistle," a source familiar with his work said.
Police had initially identified Ryan as the killer. Ryan sent out a series of Facebook posts saying it wasn't him and that he was at work all day. Video records as well as card swipes at Ernst & Young verified his statement that he had been at the office.
Investigators are looking into whether Adam Lanza was carrying his older brother Ryan's identification at the time of the shooting, which may have caused the confusion. Neither Adam nor Ryan has any known criminal history.

On December 15 2012 14:23 Meatex wrote:
EA probably pissing themselves laughing over the facebook attacks
Its only helping them

Yes it was a tragedy but
Friends and family of the victims should be the only people giving condolences
Really it baffles me why unrelated people feel the need to declare their feelings as if to say I don't really care but I can't let people think im not a good person *barf

On December 15 2012 14:27 Solarsail wrote:


Animals can be symbiotic, i.e. "being a doctor" for material gain.

They can also be fooled into doing stuff for no gain, like raising a cuckoo chick, by abusing their instincts. Which is the same as human altruism.

On December 15 2012 09:47 Domus wrote:
At some point I would expect a serious debate both in politics and in society in general in the USA about why these events happen so often. It can't just be the guns, there are other countries where guns are allowed. It might be cultural, a side effect of a society that has become too individualized or self-centered. Or it might be the way mental healthcare is setup, how hard or easy it is to get people treated for serious mental disorders, etc. I don't claim to have any answers since I don't live in the USA, but I am sure that within the USA there are some bright minds who can take a good look at what needs to be done to prevent this from occurring. When there are so many events such as this, you can no longer speak of incidents and it is time to take action.

By the way, you don't solve this problem by trying to prevent someone from shooting people. You should think why there are people in the USA who think in a way that it is ok to do something like this, and why these people still walk around freely without medical care.

8:06 p.m.: Vance, speaking to CNN's Soledad O'Brien, says they'll be processing the crime scene until Sunday and that the bodies of the children and adults killed remain in the school where they fell, and will still be there until Sunday. Parents have not been allowed to see the bodies of their children. "We will leave no stone unturned" in pursuit of answering the questions of how and why this happened, says Vance. At this time he would not confirm the name of the shooter or whether he had "a personality disorder" or "a mental disorder."

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/12/newtown-connecticut-school-shooting/59999/

On December 15 2012 14:12 Locke- wrote:
This is tragic.
Also, the people's reaction to rumor and false news is disgusting: http://mashable.com/2012/12/14/mass-effect-facebook-shooting/

On December 15 2012 16:19 Sea_Food wrote:

I dont get that last part. Im pretty sure humans can help each other even if they are not fooled to do iy.t.

Only animals i know that willingly sacrfise thenselves are ants and other insects like that. But they bearly have a brain so using the term willingly is also pretty stupid.

There are humans who do bad things to others for the sake of being evil that animals are not known to do. They only kill for food or exersice or other gains like that. Still overall i would rate human high above animals in terms of being "good"

On December 15 2012 13:38 Elurie wrote:


It's not like he woke up today, ate breakfast, and suddenly thought, "huh, Ima go kill some little kids at my mom's school." It's premeditated. He even shot his own mother in her face. I wonder if he just couldn't stand not getting attention he wanted from everyone, and acted out in a blaze of glory. Killing kids is more impactful, especially the young ones. To paint in a very broad brush, this guy was an extremist attention whore.