I went to elementary school in the 50s. You never heard of deranged nutcases going on a shooting spree hardly anywhere. Back then people respected each other. Kids respected teaches and vice-versa. Now you have to pass through a medal detector to get in most schools. Alot of schools have a deputy sheriff assigned to the school. Kids respect no one. Teachers are scared to go to school. Gangbangers threaten teachers all the times. They sell crack cocaine all over the schools. All these shooting are a direct result of morality gone to hell in the US states and it all started with the bra burners, and the protesting draft-dodgers and taking God out of the classrooms. Unless there is a spiritual awakening and we start putting God ahead of ourselves, nothing will ever change. It will only get worse. Pray for the families of all those that lost a precious child, pray for the families of the adults murdered. And pray that God shows these evil anti-God, gun-grabbing liberals the evils of their ways. If there had been one teacher packing in that school there is a damn good chance the shooter would have died before he could have killed the first person. Facts are facts.
EXCELLENT post! And you are absolutely right.
The ‘50s have been the whipping boy for liberals ever since ‘60s commits took over and got their mindset front and center.
Basically the ‘50s were only the last age of civility, after which only vestiges remained.
I thank God I was raised by “children of the ‘50s”. My mother lived IN Baltimore and loved it. She road trolleys as a 6yo by herself - she said people were both decent AND looked out for each other. They’d get involved if a stranger seemed in trouble. Instead of the “don’t talk to strangers” callous cowardice promulgated most of my life.
And liberals say they’re so caring.
That's because, in 1955, there were over two million deranged nutcases locked up for life in state mental hospitals, where they belonged.
Now, when there are a LOT more crazy people, the state hospital population is around ten thousand.
Until we start practicing nut control, gun control is fruitless.
I predict, right here, that the shooter (whoever he turns out to be) was 1) known to be crazy, 2) known to put people in fear, 3) known to the authorities, and 4) that no one did anything.
Good post. I’ve read through the entire thread (900+ posts before yours), all kinds of hysteria and off-the-wall speculation. Doesn’t do us well here on FR when viewed by others.
Took my walk about 40 minutes ago, from the end of my street I can see Danbury hospital which is supposed to be on “lockdown”, though I can’t understand what for. The Catholic School at the end of the street had two police cars there.
I retired last January, but I used to drive through Sandy Hook each night on my way home from work. There’s a traffic light where I’d turn left — if you were to turn right go just a short way, the driveway to the school is there.
Sandy Hook is normally a very quiet place, as is Newtown (although it was here, too, that Richard Crafts killed his wife Helle and put her through the woodchipper). It probably hasn’t had more than 25 homicides in the last forty years, probably longer.
Trying to get a handle on what happened has been difficult all day, with conflicting reports coming in, particularly about -which- person was the shooter. Perhaps he had stolen his brother’s ID.
Also, if the shooter was indeed the 20-year-old, I don’t think he could have possessed the handguns legally in Connecticut — age minimum here may be 21 (someone please correct me if I’m wrong). Even if he could have possessed them (and carried them) in NJ, I don’t believe CT has any “reciprocity”. It looks like these weapons were stolen from either his brother, his mother, or someone else. If the Bushmaster rifle was found in the trunk, it probably hadn’t been used at all (at least at the school).
Looks like it’s going to be at least one or two more days before enough information is discovered to piece it all together...