My thoughts go out to the families in Connecticut
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Robert Mitchell
Senior Member
This is heartbreaking and it literally makes me sick.
The one shooter that is dead was a f***ing coward and it disgusts me that they can refer to him as a victim.
The other shooter, if he is in fact in custody, shouldn't be offered the benefit of due process. Screw that!!! Kill the bastard. Why would we waste taxpayer money to give that piece of s**t anything more than what he deserves, which is nothing. Not a thing. Take his life as quickly and senselessly as he took the lives of others.
Anything like this is so disturbing but when it involves helpless, defenseless children, it's all the more sickening.
My heart goes out to all those directly and indirectly affected.
Today is a sad day and just keeps confirming that this world and our society are tumbling out of control.
I'm deeply saddened.
The one shooter that is dead was a f***ing coward and it disgusts me that they can refer to him as a victim.
The other shooter, if he is in fact in custody, shouldn't be offered the benefit of due process. Screw that!!! Kill the bastard. Why would we waste taxpayer money to give that piece of s**t anything more than what he deserves, which is nothing. Not a thing. Take his life as quickly and senselessly as he took the lives of others.
Anything like this is so disturbing but when it involves helpless, defenseless children, it's all the more sickening.
My heart goes out to all those directly and indirectly affected.
Today is a sad day and just keeps confirming that this world and our society are tumbling out of control.
I'm deeply saddened.
RockyNH_RIP
Senior Member
It is a tradgedy, and compunded by the fact it is mostly children... worst crimes ever are against children. Thats all I can say now as I am still in shock (I have 4 kids, 11 grandchildren and 2 Great Grandkids...)
Pat in NH
Pat in NH
ohkphoto
Snow White
I am just shocked and saddened . . . and it hits close to home for me. I was a teacher for many years and then became a principal . . . one year I had to take a loaded gun away from a 10 year old . . . called the police and parents. This was a little boy we had been trying to get counseling for because we saw the writing on the wall. Parents wouldn't hear of it. Whenever I had to deal with unruly or troubled kids, the thing I heard most from their parents was, "My child would never do that."
So many things have changed in our society, especially about how we raise our kids. I've seen this over my 25 years. Both parents (if the kids even have both parents) come home from work, are tired, dinner together at the dinner table is rare, family rooms have disappeared, kids live in their "rooms" with their stereos and technology . . . we don't take the time to "read" them maybe because we think or hope that they'll grow out of whatever we think we see that disturbs us. Add to that all the access they have to drugs, legal/prescription and illegal.
I will guarantee you that the warning signs were there with this killer . . . he didn't just wake up this morning and decide to do this.
I'm very sorry for all these little children who didn't even make it to the crazy teenage years, for their parents . . . how do you ever live with the loss of a child! . . . As a society, we need to start putting the safety, and education of our children first.
Today, I had a delightful day with a bunch of crazy teenagers while substituting at the high school. I enjoyed every minute.
So many things have changed in our society, especially about how we raise our kids. I've seen this over my 25 years. Both parents (if the kids even have both parents) come home from work, are tired, dinner together at the dinner table is rare, family rooms have disappeared, kids live in their "rooms" with their stereos and technology . . . we don't take the time to "read" them maybe because we think or hope that they'll grow out of whatever we think we see that disturbs us. Add to that all the access they have to drugs, legal/prescription and illegal.
I will guarantee you that the warning signs were there with this killer . . . he didn't just wake up this morning and decide to do this.
I'm very sorry for all these little children who didn't even make it to the crazy teenage years, for their parents . . . how do you ever live with the loss of a child! . . . As a society, we need to start putting the safety, and education of our children first.
Today, I had a delightful day with a bunch of crazy teenagers while substituting at the high school. I enjoyed every minute.
AxeMan - Rick S.
Senior Member
I agree Rick, I was looking at the photo's on Yahoo tonight when I got home and thought to myself I could never bring myself to take them. If I could bring myself to take them I don't know how I would sleep tonight.
I'm going to have a hard enough time as it is tonight. The last few weekends I been photographing smiling children that age, now on Saturday I have a Santa Photo event at SCHOOL that I have committed to. Do you have any idea what going to going on in my mind tonight? This is going to be another sleepless night for me I think.
There are no words I can use to describe how I feel about today's events, I am shocked and at a total loss for words.
I went to a church today, to take pictures.
I was carrying my 302AW camera bag over my shoulder with my tripod attached.
There were people in the church and they looked at me in a way that I had never experienced.
With a dozen children running around, the parents certainly wondered what I had in my bag, and the tripod did resemble something with a barrel.
I felt awkward. It wasn't my intention to make anyone feel uncomfortable.
Even after I took the camera out and started clicking away, many of them still watched me. Not with interest, but with guarded caution.
It wasn't the fact that I was taking pictures in the church; it's a landmark. But, there was an air of fear.
That is a sad state of affairs.
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I was carrying my 302AW camera bag over my shoulder with my tripod attached.
There were people in the church and they looked at me in a way that I had never experienced.
With a dozen children running around, the parents certainly wondered what I had in my bag, and the tripod did resemble something with a barrel.
I felt awkward. It wasn't my intention to make anyone feel uncomfortable.
Even after I took the camera out and started clicking away, many of them still watched me. Not with interest, but with guarded caution.
It wasn't the fact that I was taking pictures in the church; it's a landmark. But, there was an air of fear.
That is a sad state of affairs.
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