Children killed in Connecticut school shooting (likely 27 dead,including 18 children)

Bloozcrooz · 12-14-2012, 04:12 PM

Imagine a world without a single gun in it and tell me if anyone really thinks acts of violence like this would cease to exist? To even say that it would lesson the potential by any minute percentage is ridiculous. In a perfect world we all Co exist in peace love and harmony but the fact of the matter is here in the real world that's nothing more than a fantasy. This is a tragic nauseating event that occurred, and the scariest thing about it is that its always looming in the deepest of unseen trenches of societies split personality that we call life.

My heart does go out to these victims and their families and hope in time they can find comfort. I'm rarely this passionate about something but this is truly disturbing and again scary.

**Janszoon** · 12-14-2012, 04:22 PM

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Imagine a world without a single gun in it and tell me if anyone really thinks acts of violence like this would cease to exist? To even say that it would lesson the potential by any minute percentage is ridiculous.

Well, blastingas10 just posted a story about a guy who attacked a whole bunch of kids at a school in China but luckily none of them were killed because he only had a knife instead of a gun. I'd imagine a similar situation would have unfolded with this guy in Connecticut if his only weapon had been a knife as well. I don't think anyone believes stricter gun laws will make people less violent per se, just that it will make it harder for them to kill each other.

blastingas10 · 12-14-2012, 04:25 PM

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Well, blastingas10 just posted a story about a guy who attacked a whole bunch of kids at a school in China but luckily none of them were killed because he only had a knife instead of a gun. I'd imagine a similar situation would have unfolded with this guy in Connecticut if his only weapon had been a knife as well. I don't think anyone believes stricter gun laws will make people less violent per se, just that it will make it harder for them to kill each other.

Russia has disproven that.

**Janszoon** · 12-14-2012, 04:26 PM

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Russia has disproven that.

How so? Do you think the murder rate in Russia would go down if more guns were added to the equation?

blastingas10 · 12-14-2012, 04:38 PM

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How so? Do you think the murder rate in Russia would go down if more guns were added to the equation?

No, but it just proves that guns don't equal high homicide rates.

**Janszoon** · 12-14-2012, 04:42 PM

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No, but it just proves that guns don't equal high homicide rates.

Not really. For all we know Russia's murder rate would be fifty times higher if they had as many guns per capita as the US.

Freebase Dali · 12-14-2012, 04:43 PM

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Not really. For all we know Russia's murder rate would be fifty times higher if they had as many guns per capita as the US.

Probably would. Russians are crazy. They have nothing to do but enjoy really gloomy weather and drink vodka. That probably gets boring after a while.