Showing posts with label school shooting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school shooting. Show all posts

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Connecticut State Police refusing to release Adam Lanza toxicology test results

Perhaps it doesn't fit the liberal plan to blame guns...

Via CNS:
A spokesperson for the Connecticut State Police told CNSNews.com on Friday that the investigation of Lanza's mass murder is ongoing and that the police report on it is still "several months away." They could not comment further because the investigation is still open.

Also, the office of the state's chief medical examiner told CNSNews.com that the results of a toxicology test on Lanza will not be available for "quite some time."  Once it is completed, the office said,  the cause and manner of death will be made public but not the actual toxicology report.

Despite no police report or toxicology test results, lawmakers and the president are calling for stricter gun control and  mental health reforms. Obama and others have called for reinstating the 1994 “assault weapons” ban; and on Jan. 16 Obama issued 23 executive orders to further address gun violence.

Monday, December 17, 2012

Teacher's Union President: Sandy Hook Shooting Proves Teachers Shouldn't Have Guns...

A sane person could draw the opposite conclusion...
(Washington Examiner) — Michigan state senators voted Thursday to allow citizens with concealed carry permits to carry their weapons on school property, but the American Federation of Teachers argues that the Friday shooting in Connecticut proves people shouldn’t be armed at school.
“Firearms have absolutely no place in our schools—the Dec. 14, 2012, tragic massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., is a chilling and heartbreaking reminder of this,”wrote Randi Weingarten, president of AFT, and AFT Michigan president David Hecker in a letter to Gov. Rick Snyder, R-Mich.
“Permitting firearms in schools—visible or concealed—enables a dangerous set of circumstances that can result in similar tragic outcomes,” Weingarten and Hecker added in calling for Snyder to veto the legislation. “We should be doing everything we can to reduce the possibility of any gunfire in schools, and concentrate on ways to keep all guns off school property and ensure the safety of children and school employees.”
Keep on reading…

Sunday, December 16, 2012

A tale of two pictures (Conn. shooter)

Here is the picture most often displayed in the mainstream media. They have chosen to show a several year old picture of a slightly goofy looking shy kid.


Here is a more recent picture of the Connecticut shooter. If you batsh*t crazy radar doesn't go off, you need a recalibration.

Are the mainstream media avoiding the second picture to spin the gun control angle when lunatic control is the real issue?

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Hero school principal died lunging for gunman...

Kudos to a brave woman and heartfelt sympathy for her and the other victims families...
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Town officials in Connecticut say the principal who died in the rampage at an elementary school was killed while lunging at the gunman as she tried to overtake him.
Dawn Hochsprung was gunned down in Friday’s massacre in Newtown. Board of Education chairwoman Debbie Liedlien says administrators were coming out of a meeting when the gunman forced his way into the school and ran toward them.
Jeff Capeci is chairman of the town’s Legislative Council. Asked whether Hochsprung is a hero, he says, “From what we know, it’s hard to classify her as anything else.”

Shocking: Earlier this year, liberals defeated proposed Connecticut law to protect citizens from untreated mentally ill

The exact mental state of the Connecticut schools shooter is unknown at this time, but anyone who kills their mother, 20 school children and themselves is crazy in my opinion. Political correctness and liberal thinking have caused us to deinstitutionalize and mainstream people who clearly should be locked away somewhere. Instead of having asylums, we have turned our entire society into an asylum.

Counter Contempt reported:
Here’s a fact you might not know – Connecticut is one of only SIX states in the U.S. that doesn’t have a type of “assisted outpatient treatment” (AOT) law (sometimes referred to as “involuntary outpatient treatment”). There’s no one standard for these types of laws, but (roughly speaking) these are laws that allow for people with mental illness to be forcibly treated BEFORE they commit a serious crime. Whereas previous legal standards held that the mentally ill cannot be institutionalized or medicated until they harm someone or themselves, or until they express an immediate intent to do so, AOT laws (again, roughly speaking) allow for preventative institutionalization or forced medication (I highly recommend reading the data cited in the link I provided in this paragraph, especially regarding what is known as “first episode psychosis”).
AOT laws vary state-by-state, and often bear the name of a person murdered by an untreated mentally ill person (“Kendra’s Law” in New York, “Laura’s Law” in California, etc.).
Earlier this year, Connecticut considered passing an AOT law (and a weak one, at that), and it failed, due to protests from “civil liberties” groups.

What about all the massacres that were prevented by armed citizens?

The Atlantic chronicles some instances where armed citizens stopped or mitigated massacres...
Many of the worst American massacres end not in the capture of the gunman but in his suicide. In the 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech, for instance, the gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, killed himself as the police were set to capture him. But in other cases, massacres were stopped early by the intervention of armed civilians, or off-duty or retired police officers who happened to be nearby.
In 1997, a disturbed high-school student named Luke Woodham stabbed his mother and then shot and killed two people at Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi. He then began driving toward a nearby junior high to continue his shooting spree, but the assistant principal of the high school, Joel Myrick, aimed a pistol he kept in his truck at Woodham, causing him to veer off the road. Myrick then put his pistol to Woodham’s neck and disarmed him. On January 16, 2002, a disgruntled former student at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia, had killed three people, including the school’s dean, when two students, both off-duty law-enforcement officers, retrieved their weapons and pointed them at the shooter, who ended his killing spree and surrendered. In December 2007, a man armed with a semiautomatic rifle and two pistols entered the New Life Church in Colorado Springs and killed two teenage girls before a church member, Jeanne Assam—a former Minneapolis police officer and a volunteer church security guard—shot and wounded the gunman, who then killed himself.
It is still unclear if the Connecticut school shooter's mother worked at the school. She is not listed on the roster of teachers. She may have been a substitute in the past, but that is unclear at the moment. So, after killing mom at home, why did this monster drive her car to an elementary school? We may never know for sure, but looking at the locations of other recent mass murders, one thing stands out. They were mostly 'gun free' zones such as schools, malls, theaters and universities. In other words, there was the availability of a lot of soft targets. Another thing these mass murders have in common seems to be troubled youth with a history of mental health issues. Instead of more gun control, we need to reconsider how we as a society deal with juvenile offenders and the mentally ill.

Friday, December 14, 2012

Occupy Wall Street Blames Conn. School Shooting On Capitalism...

OWS is almost as deranged as the individual who committed this horrible crime.