Gunman kills 26 at Elementary School in Connecticut



[h=1]Neighbor took 6 young survivors into his home[/h]NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Gene Rosen had just finished feeding his cats and was heading from his home near Sandy Hook Elementary school to a diner Friday morning when he saw six small children sitting in a neat semicircle at the end of his driveway.
A school bus driver was standing over them, telling them things would be all right. It was about 9:30 a.m., and the children, he discovered, had just run from the school to escape a gunman.
"We can't go back to school," one little boy told Rosen. "Our teacher is dead. Mrs. Soto; we don't have a teacher."
Rosen, a 69-year-old retired psychologist, took the four girls and two boys into his home, and over the next few hours gave them toys, listened to their stories and called their frantic parents.
Rosen said he had heard the staccato sound of gunfire about 15 minutes earlier but dismissed it as an obnoxious hunter in the nearby woods.
"I had no idea what had happened," Rosen said. "I couldn't take that in."
He walked the children past his small goldfish pond with its running waterfall, and the garden he made with his two grandchildren, into the small yellow house he shares with his wife.
He ran upstairs and grabbed an armful of stuffed animals. He gave those to the children, along with some fruit juice, and sat with them as the two boys described seeing their teacher being shot.
Victoria Soto, 27, was a first-grade teacher killed when 20-year-old Adam Lanza burst into her classroom. It wasn't clear how the children escaped harm, but there have been reports that Soto hid some of her students from the approaching gunman. The six who turned up at Rosen's home did apparently have to run past her body to safety.
"They said he had a big gun and a little gun," said Rosen, who didn't want to discuss other details the children shared.
Rosen called the children's parents, using cellphone numbers obtained from the school bus company, and they came and retrieved their children.
One little girl, he said, spent the entire ordeal clutching a small stuffed Dalmatian to her chest and staring out the window looking for her mommy.
And one little boy brought them all a moment of levity.
"This little boy turns around, and composes himself, and he looks at me like he had just removed himself from the carnage and he says, 'Just saying, your house is very small,'" Rosen said. "I wanted to tell him, 'I love you. I love you.'"
Rosen said Sandy Hook had always been a place of joy for him. He taught his 8-year-old grandson to ride his bike in the school parking lot and took his 4-year-old granddaughter to use the swings.
"I thought today how life has changed, how that ground has been marred, how that school has been desecrated," he said.
He said it wasn't his training as a psychologist that helped him that day — it was being a grandparent.
A couple of hours after the last child left, a knock came on his door. It was a frantic mother who had heard that some children had taken refuge there. She was looking for her little boy.
"Her face looked frozen in terror," Rosen said, breaking down in tears.
"She thought maybe a miracle from God would have the child at my house," he said. Later, "I looked at the casualty list ... and his name was on it."
 
Kwa kweli inatisha. Something need be done. Too many psychics too, sijui ugumu wa maisha?
 
naona ni matatizo yanayosababishwa na baadh ya state kuruhusu uvutaji bangi,watu wanavuta bangi bila ata kupimwa akili
 
King'asti said:
Kwa kweli inatisha. Something need be done. Too many psychics too, sijui ugumu wa maisha?
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Ingekuwa ugumu si tungekuwa wa kwanza kuuana.
Nafikiri ni kutokuwa na challenge au maisha kukosa maana au power n attention seeking. Na nilicho na uhakika nacho ni kutokuwa na Mungu; unajua wenzetu (wa kutosha) hawataki kuamini kuna Mungu na watoto wao hawafundishwu chochote kuhusu uwepo wa Mungu.
 
is this not terrorism? i dont hear anybody calling terrorism or mass shooting is not terrorism what is trrorism ni kujilipua kwa mabomu. Wamarekani ni tia maji sana
 
escober said:
is this not terrorism? i dont hear anybody calling terrorism or mass shooting is not terrorism what is trrorism ni kujilipua kwa mabomu. Wamarekani ni tia maji sana
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Definition ya terrorism ni 'LAZIMA' itoke Marekani. Kuna bwana mmoja alilipua jengo katika mji wa Oklahoma, alikuwa akiitwa McVeigh, hakuitwa gaidi wala nini, kwa sababu alikuwa Mmarekani. Angetoka huku uswazi angeitwa gaidi. Hata huyu aliyeua wenzake na kujiua ni gaidi, lakini Wamarekani hawajasema hivyo.

 
Kila mtu anaongelea silaha, ila kwakweli tatizo kubwa zaidi ni magonjwa ya akili, so far mass killers wote wameonekana wana matatizo ya akili,
Magonjwa ya akili yanatakiwa kutafutiwa ufumbuzi kwa kweli, halafu najiuliza sana hivi kwa nini nchi zilizoendelea zina psychos wengi.

Written by Liza Long, republished from The Blue Review
Friday’s horrific national tragedy -- the murder of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut -- has ignited a new discussion on violence in America. In kitchens and coffee shops across the country, we tearfully debate the many faces of violence in America: gun culture, media violence, lack of mental health services, overt and covert wars abroad, religion, politics and the way we raise our children. Liza Long, a writer based in Boise, says it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about mental illness.
While every family's story of mental illness is different, and we may never know the whole of the Lanzas' story, tales like this one need to be heard -- and families who live them deserve our help.
Three days before 20 year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, then opened fire on a classroom full of Connecticut kindergartners, my 13-year old son Michael (name changed) missed his bus because he was wearing the wrong color pants.
“I can wear these pants,” he said, his tone increasingly belligerent, the black-hole pupils of his eyes swallowing the blue irises.
“They are navy blue,” I told him. “Your school’s dress code says black or khaki pants only.”
“They told me I could wear these,” he insisted. “You’re a stupid bitch. I can wear whatever pants I want to. This is America. I have rights!”
“You can’t wear whatever pants you want to,” I said, my tone affable, reasonable. “And you definitely cannot call me a stupid bitch. You’re grounded from electronics for the rest of the day. Now get in the car, and I will take you to school.”
I live with a son who is mentally ill. I love my son. But he terrifies me.
A few weeks ago, Michael pulled a knife and threatened to kill me and then himself after I asked him to return his overdue library books. His 7 and 9 year old siblings knew the safety plan -- they ran to the car and locked the doors before I even asked them to. I managed to get the knife from Michael, then methodically collected all the sharp objects in the house into a single Tupperware container that now travels with me. Through it all, he continued to scream insults at me and threaten to kill or hurt me.
That conflict ended with three burly police officers and a paramedic wrestling my son onto a gurney for an expensive ambulance ride to the local emergency room. The mental hospital didn’t have any beds that day, and Michael calmed down nicely in the ER, so they sent us home with a prescription for Zyprexa and a follow-up visit with a local pediatric psychiatrist.
We still don’t know what’s wrong with Michael. Autism spectrum, ADHD, Oppositional Defiant or Intermittent Explosive Disorder have all been tossed around at various meetings with probation officers and social workers and counselors and teachers and school administrators. He’s been on a slew of antipsychotic and mood altering pharmaceuticals, a Russian novel of behavioral plans. Nothing seems to work.
At the start of seventh grade, Michael was accepted to an accelerated program for highly gifted math and science students. His IQ is off the charts. When he’s in a good mood, he will gladly bend your ear on subjects ranging from Greek mythology to the differences between Einsteinian and Newtonian physics to Doctor Who. He’s in a good mood most of the time. But when he’s not, watch out. And it’s impossible to predict what will set him off.
Several weeks into his new junior high school, Michael began exhibiting increasingly odd and threatening behaviors at school. We decided to transfer him to the district’s most restrictive behavioral program, a contained school environment where children who can’t function in normal classrooms can access their right to free public babysitting from 7:30-1:50 Monday through Friday until they turn 18.
The morning of the pants incident, Michael continued to argue with me on the drive. He would occasionally apologize and seem remorseful. Right before we turned into his school parking lot, he said, “Look, Mom, I’m really sorry. Can I have video games back today?”
“No way,” I told him. “You cannot act the way you acted this morning and think you can get your electronic privileges back that quickly.”
His face turned cold, and his eyes were full of calculated rage. “Then I’m going to kill myself,” he said. “I’m going to jump out of this car right now and kill myself.”
That was it. After the knife incident, I told him that if he ever said those words again, I would take him straight to the mental hospital, no ifs, ands, or buts. I did not respond, except to pull the car into the opposite lane, turning left instead of right.
“Where are you taking me?” he said, suddenly worried. “Where are we going?”
“You know where we are going,” I replied.
“No! You can’t do that to me! You’re sending me to hell! You’re sending me straight to hell!”
I pulled up in front of the hospital, frantically waiving for one of the clinicians who happened to be standing outside. “Call the police,” I said. “Hurry.”
Michael was in a full-blown fit by then, screaming and hitting. I hugged him close so he couldn’t escape from the car. He bit me several times and repeatedly jabbed his elbows into my rib cage. I’m still stronger than he is, but I won’t be for much longer.
The police came quickly and carried my son screaming and kicking into the bowels of the hospital. I started to shake, and tears filled my eyes as I filled out the paperwork -- “Were there any difficulties with… at what age did your child… were there any problems with.. has your child ever experienced.. does your child have…”
At least we have health insurance now. I recently accepted a position with a local college, giving up my freelance career because when you have a kid like this, you need benefits. You’ll do anything for benefits. No individual insurance plan will cover this kind of thing.
For days, my son insisted that I was lying -- that I made the whole thing up so that I could get rid of him. The first day, when I called to check up on him, he said, “I hate you. And I’m going to get my revenge as soon as I get out of here.”
By day three, he was my calm, sweet boy again, all apologies and promises to get better. I’ve heard those promises for years. I don’t believe them anymore.
On the intake form, under the question, “What are your expectations for treatment?” I wrote, “I need help.”
And I do. This problem is too big for me to handle on my own. Sometimes there are no good options. So you just pray for grace and trust that in hindsight, it will all make sense.
I am sharing this story because I am Adam Lanza’s mother. I am Dylan Klebold’s and Eric Harris’s mother. I am James Holmes’s mother. I am Jared Loughner’s mother. I am Seung-Hui Cho’s mother. And these boys—and their mothers—need help. In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about mental illness.
According to Mother Jones, since 1982, 61 mass murders involving firearms have occurred throughout the country. Of these, 43 of the killers were white males, and only one was a woman. Mother Jones focused on whether the killers obtained their guns legally (most did). But this highly visible sign of mental illness should lead us to consider how many people in the U.S. live in fear, like I do.
When I asked my son’s social worker about my options, he said that the only thing I could do was to get Michael charged with a crime. “If he’s back in the system, they’ll create a paper trail,” he said. “That’s the only way you’re ever going to get anything done. No one will pay attention to you unless you’ve got charges.”
I don’t believe my son belongs in jail. The chaotic environment exacerbates Michael’s sensitivity to sensory stimuli and doesn’t deal with the underlying pathology. But it seems like the United States is using prison as the solution of choice for mentally ill people. According to Human Rights Watch, the number of mentally ill inmates in U.S. prisons quadrupled from 2000 to 2006, and it continues to rise -- in fact, the rate of inmate mental illness is five times greater (56 percent) than in the non-incarcerated population.
With state-run treatment centers and hospitals shuttered, prison is now the last resort for the mentally ill -- Rikers Island, the LA County Jail and Cook County Jail in Illinois housed the nation’s largest treatment centers in 2011.
No one wants to send a 13-year old genius who loves Harry Potter and his snuggle animal collection to jail. But our society, with its stigma on mental illness and its broken healthcare system, does not provide us with other options. Then another tortured soul shoots up a fast food restaurant. A mall. A kindergarten classroom. And we wring our hands and say, “Something must be done.”
I agree that something must be done. It’s time for a meaningful, nation-wide conversation about mental health. That’s the only way our nation can ever truly heal.
God help me. God help Michael. God help us all.
(Originally published at The Anarchist Soccer Mom.)
 
Nonda said:
Hii inaeleweka? Je inawezekana? Soma na changanya na zako!

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Ama kweli changanya na za kwako...
kila mtu atashikwa uchawi sasa, lakini haitasaidia kitu zaidi ya kuongeza idadi ya maadui...

cha kushangaza n kwamba mass/serial killers wana profile inayofanana sana
'white male, coming from unstable/ very dysfunctional family, abandoned by father and living with a controlling mother, they hate their parents, have experienced child abuse, have psychotic issues'

Bila wazazi kuweka kipaumbele kwenye spouse relationships na kuspend quality time zaidi na watoto kuliko kukimbiza kazi na more material stuff hii habari itajirudia tena na tena...

Ubinafsi pia umezidi, hakuna real sense of community, neighbours hardly know each other, hata ndugu wa damu wana limitations za ajabu ajabu kwenye mahusiano. Nadhani tabia kama hizi zinachangia sana malezi mabaya ya watoto.
 
[h=5]A Black man kills, he's a menace to society. A Foreign man kills, he's a terrorist. But a White man kills, he's psychologically unstable.[/h]hii imekaaje wakati mwingine wazungu siwaelewi elewi,na kwa nini uwa wanaona hivi,je mzungu awezi kuwa terrorist?
 
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Ha ha ha! hao ndio wazungu bana! kwao hakuna mbaya ila sisi ndo tunakomalina wenyewe!
 
wakiwa wanasupport kikundi cha upinzani wanawaita wale wanaopigana na serikali freedom fighters wakiwa wanasupport serikali madarakani wanawaita wale wanaopigana na serikali rebels!!!
 

Amewaua watoto lakini reaction ni calm, angelikuwa mweusi lo!
 
Someone has to be smart to play arround with names.

[QUOTE=bona;5253406]wakiwa wanasupport kikundi cha upinzani wanawaita wale wanaopigana na serikali freedom fighters wakiwa wanasupport serikali madarakani wanawaita wale wanaopigana na serikali rebels!!![/QUOTE]
 
bona said:
wakiwa wanasupport kikundi cha upinzani wanawaita wale wanaopigana na serikali freedom fighters wakiwa wanasupport serikali madarakani wanawaita wale wanaopigana na serikali rebels!!!
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mi pia nimeliona ilo,na mifano ipo mingi sana
 

Ndio ile methali ya kwamba 'Kunya anye kuku, akinya bara tunasema kaharisha'. Kitendo ni kimoja, ila tafsiri ni tofauti kutegemea mtendaji wa tendo hilo
 
In the wake of the Newtown, Conn. shooting, a Mormon Church-owned company announced Tuesday night it was suspending all gun listings on its popular classifieds site.

In addition to removing gun listings, KSL.com — the online hub for Salt Lake City's NBC affiliate, which is operated by church-owned Deseret Digital Media — took down the "Firearms and Hunting" section from its website. A company statement that replaces the site's gun section says they were "profoundly saddened" by the Newtown shooting.

"In the wake of other similar incidents, important questions have been raised about the ease of access to guns," the statement reads. "These questions deserve time for careful consideration and we are confident that an appropriate resolution will be found."

KSL.com maintains one of the largest classified sections on the internet, and has frequently been targeted by gun control advocates, who say the site makes it too easy for buyers to bypass regulations to purchase firearms. A 2011 report from the office of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg listed KSL as one of the top offenders in enabling buyers to obtain guns without background checks.

Read more: Mormon Church-Owned Website Suspends Gun Sales
 
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