Comments on: Knowing That No Sense Can Be Made Of The Newtown Tragedy

By: longhollow

longhollow — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:51:00 +0000

I have a gun but I don’t shoot it. (An old boyfriend gave it to me after my condo was broken into.) Yet I believe in the right to own it, and a friend says her husband owns that same gun used at Sandy Hook to shoot feral hogs at their ranch. I still don’t understand the need for such powerful weapons, but my husband pointed out it wouldn’t have taken more than my little gun to kill those babies. So yes, the mental illness issue. I worked in an elementary school a couple of weeks ago where a kindergartner, the son of a teacher, got in trouble for punching another student. As I walked him to the office, I swear I heard him say something about a knife his daddy owned and cutting the head off of something. He was angry, so I’m pretty sure what his intent was, and it gave me chills. Most of the time this child is all hugs. What’s the answer? Hell if I know.

By: Larry Teren

Larry Teren — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:48:00 +0000

i’m sure i am in the minority but there has to be more accountability. the death penalty needs to be restored and publicly done. then there will be a percentage who will think before they do. maybe not someone who kills his mother but maybe others like the guy in aurora colorado and too many others. do-gooders who feel that two wrongs don’t make a right just perpetuate the continuity of wrongs.

By: Jane Gassner

Jane Gassner — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 03:44:36 +0000

Kathy,
We know she knew her son’s mental instability was increasing. She knew he was burning himself with lighters, another form of “cutting” that is also a release of pain and emotion. We know she did not, even knowing those things, lock her guns away. Perhaps the shame of having a mentally ill son pushed her to hide the truth from herself and the authorities–and that is where our attitudes toward mental illness must change too.

Even more, however, you make my point about needing a change in how we deal with our emotions. There are other ways of dealing with stress than violence, real or virtual. Until sane people such as yourself don’t seek solace via violence, I fear we are doomed for repetitions of the shootings that have become so commonplace in America.

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By: Kathy Hicks Walker

Kathy Hicks Walker — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:48:00 +0000

We don’t know that she did allow her son access to her weapons. I am sure it never crossed her mind that they would ever be used against her; much less anyone else. Why would she have a “weapon of war” as a sports shooter? My guess is release. It’s been stated that she kept her personal life private. Being a single parent is hard enough. Add an emotionally unstable child to the mix and the load must be unbearable at times. There is great release in destruction. While she would probably never dream of harming her son, or any individual – sometimes being able to take your frustrations out on something inanimate is great comfort. When my day has been particularly stressful, I play video games after my son goes to bed. It is my destructive release. I can only guess that instead of shooting pixels though – targets were hers,

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By: Melanie Bruce

Melanie Bruce — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:07:00 +0000

You’ve expressed a lot of what has been floating around in my head, too. Yes, let’s not move on to the next thing. The way to a safer society is not to arm everyone and anyone with high capacity guns.