[Dude111]

Im listening to a show on this now on KTKK am 630

http://178.159.0.11:7204

[AVTechMan]

Horrible. Just beyond horrible. I am still reading and catching up on the info of this horrid event. My heart, and I don't know how deep I can dig down to show my deepest sorrow and condolences to the families involved in this incident. Christmas is not going to be a happy one for these parents.

I may not have kids of my own, but I was a former school bus driver and I used to pick up and drop off elementary kids...when they smile at you each morning when they get on the bus and say hello and when they miss you if I was absent....it really gets to me.

So much evil in this world....but I do wonder what kind of person this gunman was. I need to finish reading this thread.....back to page 8....

My deepest prayers and thoughts to all will be ongoing all weekend. I may even get small candles for each child that lost their life and light one in their honor. At least they are in the Lord's loving arms now.

[LexusNexus]

This is mind-numbing and beyond tragic. My heart goes out to those affected by this senseless tragedy. Absolutely incredible and sad, to say the least.

[Gilah G.]

Watched 20/20 tonite through tears
Although I am not an Obama supporter, I supported his actions today in the press conference and all our Flags at half staff.

I could not help thinking of my classroom in Texas. I ran in my mind the scenario and how I would hide my little preschoolers in such an event.
I need to write an appreciation to my daughter's teachers.
The teachers in today's disgusting event are true heroes.

[Chava61]

Originally Posted by 7 Wishes

If his mother was a teacher there and he went to the school years ago they probably just let him in without a 2nd thought. Big mistake.....

The report this morning is that he shattered the glass to get into the school.

[Chava61]

According to NBC this morning, one little girl from that class was saved as she was home sick that day (meaning she lost all of her classmates).

[Chava61]

Nancy Lanza the mother of the shooter was not a regular teacher or employee of the school according to the Superintendent of the Newtown CT. School District. She might have been a substitute teacher or a volunteer but was not listed in the database of school full-time employees.

[TechieTransplant]

Originally Posted by jacobwilliam77

This country is going to hell.

It's already there, been there for a long time.

[wyolady]

There was another recent tragedy where the murderer suffered from Asperger's. In this case, the mother died from cancer when the son was a teen. The son who murdered his Dad's girlfriend and his Dad a professor at Casper College in Wyoming last month evidently blamed his Dad for giving him the disorder.

Dying teacher battled son after attack in classroom, saving students - U.S. News

I am a classroom teacher with about 10 total students with autism and/or Asperger's; three of them genuiely frighten me and if I offended them, I believe they would behave violently and are capable of something like this. From my training, I believe it is their unpredictable personality AND the fact that they like to feel in control in their lives. I have been trained to continually reinforce choices they have, giving the impression they have probably more genuine control in their life in my classroom than they really do, but it appeases their intense need for control over what happens to them. I almost never "tell" them what to do.

When circumstances beyond their control start to influence what goes on in their lives, they use any means to regain that control.

[7 Wishes]

Also no one knows the situation of a given marriage....like maybe there is verbal or physical abuse; or one spouse has a drug or alcohol problem, etc. To just say "stick it out" means well, but is too simplistic and borderline insulting.

As for how so many guns got to the house registered to the mom, A) the registration story may not be true, a LOT of things told on that tragic day turned out to be fiction (i.e. was the "2nd gunman with a maroon van and caught in the woods" even true? Turned out the older brother was at his NJ accounting job the whole time). Or B) Somehow Adam was able to fake using his mom's ID and/or background for getting the guns.