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Subject: The connecticut shooting was the mom's fault

This blame is terrible. When will it end?

Why not blame the parents for sending their kids to that school? Or for choosing to live in that area, or for having kids to send to that school?

  • 12.22.2012 12:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: TheBrandingIron
This blame is terrible. When will it end?

Why not blame the parents for sending their kids to that school? Or for choosing to live in that area, or for having kids to send to that school?


And let's blame the people who built the school. If there were no school, there would be no school to shoot up.

Screw all this blaming. Just mourn and show respect.

  • 12.22.2012 12:41 PM PDT
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I can't wait for this all to blow over and be forgotten like every other shooting ever.

  • 12.22.2012 12:41 PM PDT


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Posted by: TheBrandingIron
This blame is terrible. When will it end?

Why not blame the parents for sending their kids to that school? Or for choosing to live in that area, or for having kids to send to that school?


And let's blame the people who built the school. If there were no school, there would be no school to shoot up.

Screw all this blaming. Just mourn and show respect.
except that those situations listed are indirect people in the equation of the situation. The mother was the automatic weapons she was directly involved in the situation for not having it locked up.

  • 12.22.2012 12:45 PM PDT


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Though I'm usually in full support of the idea that parents take at least some of the blame for their child's actions, in a case like this, many people were at fault.

Let's not forget the teachers and students who spent eight hours a day with the guy as he grew up. Or the other people in his life who had to have noticed that something was really wrong with this guy.

Crazy of that magnitude doesn't manifest itself over night. He sent out red flags to everyone remotely close to him, I'm sure.

They simply chose to look the other way.
But at the end of the day the mother knew this and allowed access to an assault riflle. Pretty hard to argue that regardless.
I'm certainly not arguing that. Just stating that blame isn't easily placed in a situation like this. Doubt anyone would argue that if he didn't get it from her, he wasn't going to get it somewhere, though.
I'm not really goin to base it on hypotheticals however. In that specific situation it wouldn't have happened. Would it have happened? If a criminal doesn't get caught does he recommit? Hard to say.
I would say that it depends on the motivation behind the killings. Not having easy access to a weapon would stop an act of passion or immediate anger. But not a methodically planned or premeditated act of violence.

I'm not privy to all the facts on the case, so I really don't know which this particular incident falls under.

  • 12.22.2012 12:47 PM PDT

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There were no assault rifles involved in this shooting.

  • 12.22.2012 12:55 PM PDT

The mom could be blamed for covering up his mental issues.

  • 12.22.2012 12:58 PM PDT

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No parent expects their child to kill them then go on a murderous rampage in a school. It just not a simple, "oh, my boy's a bit odd, better lock the Nutter away!"

  • 12.22.2012 1:08 PM PDT

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I agree. She is totally at fault. How can you start throwing the blame at the distribution of guns when this was clearly negligence? The mom of all people should be at fault because she didn't keep a tighter lock on her firearms around her son.

  • 12.22.2012 1:10 PM PDT
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Posted by: Thundastruck
It was the gun's fault. Accept it.

  • 12.22.2012 1:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: Soul drinker108
I agree. She is totally at fault. How can you start throwing the blame at the distribution of guns when this was clearly negligence? The mom of all people should be at fault because she didn't keep a tighter lock on her firearms around her son.

Or, how about focusing on the actual reason she let him have access in the first place?
*points to my first post*

  • 12.22.2012 1:13 PM PDT

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Posted by: Bradllez
Members here dont get banned.

They just go missing in action.

The AR-15 wasn't even used in the shooting, he had a Glock and a Sig Sauer. The AR was left in the truck.

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  • 12.22.2012 1:40 PM PDT

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Not really. Your mom is over quite enough to make my fears mute.
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Posted by: TheBrandingIron
This whole blaming thing isn't helping. Blaming isn't solving.

Who said blaming someone/something would solve it? That's irrelevant and I would like you to realize that.

  • 12.22.2012 1:43 PM PDT

Shut the -blam!- up about guns and shootings. The Flood is just starting to revert back its non retarded state of -blam!-ing and making the same threads over and over again for no -blam!- reason but to -blam!- and argue a never ending retarded pointless -blam!- argument

  • 12.22.2012 1:45 PM PDT

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