Topic: One Year Ago: Sandy Hook; Today: Arapahoe

[BlueAlphaZero]

One year ago yesterday, Newton, Connecticut marked the first anniversary of the shooting that took place at Sandy Hook primary school. Instead of a media-blanketed event, the citizens and authorities asked that they be allowed to remember their dead in private.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/newton-massacre-one-year-on-stricken-sandy-hook--remembers-its-dead-9004187.html

The Sandy Hook shootings, of course, ignited another debate about gun control among Americans. The deaths of twenty schoolchildren and six school staff were supposed to help swing this contentious issue in favor of the pro-gun control side. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/sandy-hook-campaigners-push-gun-control

Now, one year later, another school shooting--this time at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado--has rocked the U.S.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/12/13/two-reported-injured-in-colorado-high-school-shooting/4014393/

Authorities credit the lessons learned from the Columbine massacre of 1999 with the way the police were able to stop the Arapahoe incident from getting any worse. Law enforcers immediately stormed the school to neutralize the shooter rather than simply surrounding the area. Meanwhile, teachers secured students inside locked and unlit classrooms.

The parallels of the Connecticut and Colorado shootings, of course, are haunting: disturbed individuals opening fire on innocent people as they stalked a perceived enemy, after which the killers turned their weapons on themselves.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/13/us/shooting-tragic-memories/

Will this new shooting finally bring changes to America's gun control laws? Right now, as Centennial and Newton mourn their dead, the answer to that question has yet to be found.

[kenji_kulet]

napanood ko yung columbine video and it was disturbing

yung mga state na involve a mga shooting is the State kung saan maluwag ang baril

[BlueAlphaZero]

napanood ko yung columbine video and it was disturbing

yung mga state na involve a mga shooting is the State kung saan maluwag ang baril

If you ask the U.S. National Rifle Association, the pro-gun lobbyists, and the Second Amendment defenders, state gun laws had nothing to do with any of those crimes. Those were simply isolated or individual acts of violence that just happened to be carried out with firearms. After all, they usually ask, should a ban on knives be enacted since those are also used in crimes? Or cars, since cars also kill people?

Some pro-gun activists would even go so far as to argue that if teachers--and maybe even students who are of the age of majority--were allowed to carry guns, they could become an effective deterrent against school shootings. They believe that nobody would attempt to wreak havoc in a school where the students and employees are known to be armed.

[kenji_kulet]

If you ask the U.S. National Rifle Association, the pro-gun lobbyists, and the Second Amendment defenders, state gun laws had nothing to do with any of those crimes. Those were simply isolated or individual acts of violence that just happened to be carried out with firearms. After all, they usually ask, should a ban on knives be enacted since those are also used in crimes? Or cars, since cars also kill people?

Some pro-gun activists would even go so far as to argue that if teachers--and maybe even students who are of the age of majority--were allowed to carry guns, they could become an effective deterrent against school shootings. They believe that nobody would attempt to wreak havoc in a school where the students and employees are known to be armed.

Yup sa sobrang luwag ng gun law sa state nila a child can carry or in this case can took his/her parents gun without knowing na wala na yung baril