Close to 20' dead in Connecticut school shooting,

To everyone that has been effected by this, my heart is with you, your families, your children. Count your blessing, make sure you thank the Lord for everything He's provided before you go to sleep every single night. There is nothing I can say to help those who have lost, other than I pray for you and I am deeply sorry.

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The world has gone effin insane!

No, just the USA.

I hope that was a (bad) joke.

Otherwise, I want to hear more about this bubble in which you live.

Seriously, this isn't about whose Country is better, Just drop it. We don't need this to turn into an argument. Please.

Me drop it? How about addressing the douchcanoe who make his asinine comment instead of one of the dozen+ appropriate and inevitable responses to it?

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The world has gone effin insane!

No, just the USA.

What is wrong with you? Regardless of your personal beliefs of our country. CHILDREN are dead. Innocent children. You are absolutely heartless.

Always terrible to hear. Makes me question my profession (teacher) sometimes. I can't imagine what the families are going though!

JM

I think about my teachers all the time, and I imagine I'd be a little nervous if I were teaching -- but please don't question your profession. As a teacher, you have the opportunity to teach kids to be better than this, especially for children whose parents can't or won't. I know it's unfair to put a complete stranger in that position, but I've seen a lot of that. Teachers make a HUGE difference - at least, they have for me. My junior year of high school was hell on Earth; I wanted to drop out so badly, but one of my teachers pulled me aside, talked to me, and changed my way of thinking. I will be graduating from college next spring (2014, that is) with a double major in Social Justice and Communications. I am so grateful to him, and I always will be. Sadly, no matter how great you are, some people will just come out messed up - but you may be the connection one kid needs to make his/her dreams come true, or even to just make it through school, which is a wonderful thing in itself. Sending my respect to the teachers of the world right now...

And condolences to the people who went through this horrible tragedy, as well as their families. Each time I hear one of these stories, I hope it'll be the last...and then a few weeks or DAYS later, there's another.

This made me honestly sad. I just can't fathom how somebody could ruin so many lives. These children should not have to know what it is like to lose people. They're too young to see the worst of humanity... Truly appalling.

I'm sure the gunman killed himself. The idea of taking innocent people out like that before killing oneself is unfathomable to me. Wish someone could find that crazy gene that filth like this must have.

People make me absolutely sick!

Me drop it?

Would that be SO hard? He obviously is a douche bag, everybody can see that. Why bother?

I'm not a parent--but I work in the education field and this is absolutely horrific! I cannot even imagine being in this situation. Being from a very similar sized community I understand the close-knit family type feel. Many prayers to everyone affected by this terrible tragedy!

Just heard this on BBC News and am utterly numb with grief and the sheer disbelief that this is allowed to happen again and again and again and again in America.


I guess the NRA's viewpoint will be that at least 40 million other kids were safe today because of guns.

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I disagree with your logic and conclusion...but this isn't the time or the place to debate it.