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Social Discussion / Sandy Hook School shooting (Aka attack on my town)
« on: December 14, 2012, 01:54:54 PM »
From Rory Phillips, CT Newtown resident
Hey guys,
So recently i just got home from almost being caught in one of the worst school shootings- Or... sorry... THE worst school shooting in American history. 26 dead including 18 children and about 8 adults... Including a physiologist and the Principal.
The purple van pulled up to my school when i was outside, they looked like nuns as i whispered to my friend... They were bending over for something and then drove off at a slow speed. I was taking a test in biology about 3 hours later and then *POP POP POP* i heard the shots from my classroom. The school is about 1 mile away from my high school... 3 minutes later i get an announcement telling us to get down on the ground for a lock down, it was not a drill.
One of my old 3rd grade social studies teachers died from the stray of bullets. The rest... I don't know which ones died, hoping most of them lived. While my town stays terrorized... It reminds me a safe place isn't always safe.
From Nikolai, CT resident
Today, December 14th, Adam Lanza entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT and killed 28 people; 20 children, 8 adults including Adam Lanza's mother. According to NBC Connecticut, Lanza's father was found dead in his home in Hoboken, NJ. This is, without question, the worst shooting seen in the state of Connecticut in the entirety of its history, and in the entirety of the United States. This is Connecticut's Columbine.
Over the next weeks, you will hear people debate gun laws because of this. Fuck that, it doesn't matter. What matters is that 26 people are dead, among them little children who never got a fucking chance to live their lives. The parents of those children will have to live knowing that on a bright, sunny Connecticut day like today, they sent their children to school thinking they'd come back home, safe, at the end of the day, and they didn't. The citizens of the state of Connecticut, a state where we assume we're safe because nothing ever happens here, will realize over the coming days a haunting truth I realized when I was young: no matter where you are, you're not safe.
Our thoughts go out to the victims and their families, and if I were religious, I'd be inclined to give them my prayers, too.
Hey guys,
So recently i just got home from almost being caught in one of the worst school shootings- Or... sorry... THE worst school shooting in American history. 26 dead including 18 children and about 8 adults... Including a physiologist and the Principal.
The purple van pulled up to my school when i was outside, they looked like nuns as i whispered to my friend... They were bending over for something and then drove off at a slow speed. I was taking a test in biology about 3 hours later and then *POP POP POP* i heard the shots from my classroom. The school is about 1 mile away from my high school... 3 minutes later i get an announcement telling us to get down on the ground for a lock down, it was not a drill.
One of my old 3rd grade social studies teachers died from the stray of bullets. The rest... I don't know which ones died, hoping most of them lived. While my town stays terrorized... It reminds me a safe place isn't always safe.
From Nikolai, CT resident
Today, December 14th, Adam Lanza entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT and killed 28 people; 20 children, 8 adults including Adam Lanza's mother. According to NBC Connecticut, Lanza's father was found dead in his home in Hoboken, NJ. This is, without question, the worst shooting seen in the state of Connecticut in the entirety of its history, and in the entirety of the United States. This is Connecticut's Columbine.
Over the next weeks, you will hear people debate gun laws because of this. Fuck that, it doesn't matter. What matters is that 26 people are dead, among them little children who never got a fucking chance to live their lives. The parents of those children will have to live knowing that on a bright, sunny Connecticut day like today, they sent their children to school thinking they'd come back home, safe, at the end of the day, and they didn't. The citizens of the state of Connecticut, a state where we assume we're safe because nothing ever happens here, will realize over the coming days a haunting truth I realized when I was young: no matter where you are, you're not safe.
Our thoughts go out to the victims and their families, and if I were religious, I'd be inclined to give them my prayers, too.
