Comments on: Despair, Frustration, Fear, Anger, Grief–Sandy Hook School https://boiseguardian.com/2012/12/14/despair-frustration-fear-anger-grief-sandy-hook-school/ A different slant on the news. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:08:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Zippo https://boiseguardian.com/2012/12/14/despair-frustration-fear-anger-grief-sandy-hook-school/#comment-38033 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:08:32 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=9300#comment-38033 Then the list of stupid people in this country is very very long also: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2250160/West-Kearns-Elementary-Student-gun-classmate-s-head-parents-encouraged-protection.html?ICO=most_read_module

]]> By: Jimmers https://boiseguardian.com/2012/12/14/despair-frustration-fear-anger-grief-sandy-hook-school/#comment-37984 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:01:55 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=9300#comment-37984 Gun control is not the answer. Plain and simple. Restricting firearms would no more have prevented this horror then it would have at Fort Hood. Think about it… When was the last time you saw something like this happen on a hardened target. These wackjobs will always prey on the week and defenseless. We as people cannot fix crazy and we’re unwilling to exile Evil.

]]> By: Zippo https://boiseguardian.com/2012/12/14/despair-frustration-fear-anger-grief-sandy-hook-school/#comment-37849 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:31:55 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=9300#comment-37849 Gun in the cockpit and randomly throughout the passenger compartment seems to be a good deterent.

Schools are obviously soft targets. If teachers who wanted to had appropriate police training to carry a close-range weapon, the wackos would shift to other soft targets. This would be a possible near-term fix.

Uncovering the wacko without destroying the very fabric of our country is the longer-term challenge.

]]> By: Zippo https://boiseguardian.com/2012/12/14/despair-frustration-fear-anger-grief-sandy-hook-school/#comment-37847 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:22:25 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=9300#comment-37847 I see the scapegoating of lawful gun owners has begun.

]]> By: Zippo https://boiseguardian.com/2012/12/14/despair-frustration-fear-anger-grief-sandy-hook-school/#comment-37841 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:22:00 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=9300#comment-37841 Found some statistics/news which indicate 1929 was our most violent year.

]]> By: Bob Neugebauer https://boiseguardian.com/2012/12/14/despair-frustration-fear-anger-grief-sandy-hook-school/#comment-37821 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:28:18 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=9300#comment-37821 Dave:
You are right on with your comments this morning.Every time a mass killing of this type takes place the political cockroaches come out of the woodwork calling for gun control. Please let me know why there is not an outcry for violent media control. Could it be that the same people that put out this violent media are the ones contributing to the campaigns of those politicians. Four decades ago the Surgeon General issued warnings after looking at hundreds of studies that have shown a link between violent media exposure and aggression. The correlation between interactive violent video games and aggression have been proven in studies to be even more substantial. We have become so disengaged from what used to be the “Family Unit”. This used to be our strength here in America. We as parents and grandparents have lost sight of the fact that this is where the real problems are solved. Spending time with your children at the dinner table or helping them with homework and understanding what their problems are is the only way we can return to some normalcy. If we don’t spend time with our children how if heavens name are we going to know if they have problems and help to fix them. We are all way to busy these days worried about how to make a living or what I Pod we are going to buy next. We need to get back to basics. Our problem is not a gun problem it is a people problem.

]]> By: Zippo https://boiseguardian.com/2012/12/14/despair-frustration-fear-anger-grief-sandy-hook-school/#comment-37734 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:14:06 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=9300#comment-37734 Rifter we do have multiples a day

]]> By: Kappa TA https://boiseguardian.com/2012/12/14/despair-frustration-fear-anger-grief-sandy-hook-school/#comment-37726 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:07:58 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=9300#comment-37726 Thank you to the first responders and school administrators who risked their lives to protect others in this terrible tragedy.

KTA-violent crime survivor at age 9

]]> By: Karen Ragland https://boiseguardian.com/2012/12/14/despair-frustration-fear-anger-grief-sandy-hook-school/#comment-37723 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:06:40 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=9300#comment-37723 i read the comments on this article and damn those pesky guns that just get up an make some of us shoot other folks.
I was raised around guns and when I became an adult never thought about harming others. I would rather use the written law to make my point. Leave the guns alone and focus on our society as a whole. From the medical, school, amd family aspects. As government seeks to furthur manage the above mentioned the more shootings from frustration and other causes we will have. I believe there will be just knee jerk reactions so God help us.

]]> By: Dave https://boiseguardian.com/2012/12/14/despair-frustration-fear-anger-grief-sandy-hook-school/#comment-37720 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:15:06 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=9300#comment-37720 To rifter, it is not so much video games, but the acceptance and expectation of violence to entertain, the more violent and gruesome the better. We have become desensitized.

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