Connecticut School District on Lockdown Following Shooting Report

[anon45]

If terrorism is linked to a cause then may be an act of terrorism be an act of heroism for the others. Lets not confuse ourselves into definition of terrorism. This particular case was an act of terrorism which terrorized not only the directly affected people ie the children, teachers and the parents but also people across the world whose children go to schools.

This has not so far been found to be (and likely is not) an act of terrorism when considering the commonly accepted definition of the term.

You have taken the definition of the verb 'terrorize' and confused it with what the specific connotation the word 'terrorism' has.

It is not difficult to find this stuff out, just do a google search.

 

[laiqs@mi]

it is not terrorism because it was not done by a muslims. it would have been if a name with Abdullah, Abdur Rahman, Usama, or ajmal would have been involved. but now it is not terrorism because
the person involved was probably a christian.

in any case one of the most sad events....
killing Innocent children ......

 

[M_Saint]

The teacher (his mother) is dead.
School shooter identified as Ryan Lanza, 24; he killed his mother during massacre, officials say - U.S. News

The school's principal was also killed.

Very sad incident.

R.I.P to the dead.

Sad, very sad, indeed. Just saw PREZ. Obama crying and felt sorry for the unfortunate kids. I think the time has arrived to have a better but uniformed 'Gun-control' law throughout U.S.A.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Crocodile tears , droping missiles on other countrie`s kids and crying crocodile tears over shooting locally

 

[Reashot Xigwin]

US school shooting suspect was son of teacher
Pete Yost and Jason Keyser, Associated Press, Washington | World | Sat, December 15 2012, 9:50 AM

A nation in mourning: A person walks into the information center at a rest stop in Danbury, Connecticut, US, near the Connecticut-New York state line, where a US flag is raised half-staff in honor of the people killed when a gunman opened fire inside a Connecticut elementary school, on Friday. (AP/Julio Cortez)A nation in mourning: A person walks into the information center at a rest stop in Danbury, Connecticut, US, near the Connecticut-New York state line, where a US flag is raised half-staff in honor of the people killed when a gunman opened fire inside a Connecticut elementary school, on Friday. (AP/Julio Cortez)

The man suspected of killing more than two dozen people at a school in the US state of Connecticut was an HONOR STUDENT who lived in a PROSPEROUS NEIGHBORHOOD with his mother, a grade-school teacher who liked to host dice games and decorate the house for the holidays.

Adam Lanza killed his mother at their home before driving her car to Sandy Hook Elementary School and — armed with at least two handguns — carried out the massacre before taking his own life, officials said. A third weapon, a .223-caliber rifle, was found in the car, and more guns were found inside the school.

The 20-year-old may have suffered from a personality disorder, law enforcement officials said.

Investigators were trying to learn as much as possible about Lanza but so far, authorities have not spoken publicly of any possible motive. Witnesses said the shooter didn't utter a word.

Catherine Urso, who was attending a vigil Friday evening in Newtown, Connecticut, said her college-age son knew the killer and remembered him for his alternative style.

"He just said he was very thin, very remote and was one of the goths," she said.

Lanza and his mother, Nancy, lived in a well-to-do part of Newtown, a prosperous community of 27,000 people about 60 miles (100 kilometers) northeast of New York City.

A grandmother of the suspect — who is also the mother of the slain teacher — was too distraught to speak when reached by phone at her home in Florida.

"I just don't know, and I can't make a comment right now," Dorothy Hanson, 78, said in a shaky voice as she started to cry. She said she hadn't heard anything official about her daughter and grandsons. She declined to comment further and hung up.

Adam Lanza's older brother, 24-year-old Ryan Lanza of Hoboken, New Jersey, was being questioned, a law enforcement official said. He told authorities that his brother was believed to suffer from a personality disorder, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record about the unfolding investigation.

The official did not elaborate, and it was unclear exactly what type of disorder he might have had.

Ryan Lanza had been extremely cooperative and was not under arrest or in custody, but investigators were still searching his computers and phone records. Ryan Lanza told law enforcement he had not been in touch with his brother since about 2010.

Brett Wilshe, a friend of Ryan Lanza's, said he sent him a Facebook message Friday asking what was going on and if he was OK. According to Wilshe, Lanza's reply was something along the lines of: "It was my brother. I think my mother is dead. Oh my God."

Adam Lanza attended Newtown High School, and several local news clippings from recent years mention his name among the school's honor roll students.

Sandeep Kapur, who lives two doors down from the Lanza family in Newtown, said he did not know them and was unaware of any disturbances at the Lanza house in the three years that he and his family have been in the neighborhood.

He described the area as a subdivision of well-tended, 15-year-old homes on lots of an acre or more, where many people work at companies like General Electric, Pepsi and IBM. Some are doctors, and his next-door neighbor is a bank CEO, said Kapur, a project manager at an information technology firm.

"The neighborhood's great. We have young kids, and they have lots of friends," he said. "If you drive past this neighborhood, it gives you a really warm feeling.

Usually most mass shooter were social outcast, but what motivated this dude to pop his own mother + 20 other people is the real question here.

 

[Juice]

You are just being a little pig headed here. Just because Pakistan gets regularly accused of having terrorists on its soil, you are simply trying to play tit for tat by classifying a random act of violence as terrorism.. But by your logic, the daily violence in Karachi, which a lot of you term as political violence should also be termed as terrorism..Correct?


PS: Pig Headed has no religious connotation

pig-headed - definition of pig-headed by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

Actually political violence IS terrorism...by modern usage. With out the politics or cause....just murder (or as Krait pointed out, spree killing)

 

[Juice]

Damn, 2012 has been brutal for America. So many mass murders. Karma's a *****, ain't it?

If it's karma...what explains the many more murders in Pakistan?

 

[Audio]

RIP poor children.

 

[gambit]

If it's karma...what explains the many more murders in Pakistan?

Bad feng shui. The people's chi got whacked.

 

[unicorn]

Guns used by the alleged shooter

 

[alibaz]

This has not so far been found to be (and likely is not) an act of terrorism when considering the commonly accepted definition of the term.

You have taken the definition of the verb 'terrorize' and confused it with what the specific connotation the word 'terrorism' has.

It is not difficult to find this stuff out, just do a google search.

As I said I am not interested in definition, you want to term it violence or whatever. It's a tragedy and a. Very sad incident.

 

[Zarvan]

Another Tragedy in USA May ALLAH bless the soul of innocent children with heaven and that SOB killer should face really good time in Hell with all kind of stuff to have entertaining time of torture and pain which no one could imagine

 

[Sugarcane]

On Friday morning, 27 people were reportedly shot and killed at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, CT. According to sources, 18 of these casualties were children. This is the second mass shooting in the US this week, after a gunman opened fire in an Oregon shopping mall on Tuesday, killing 2. ABC News reports that there have been 31 school shootings in the US since Columbine in 1999, when 13 people were killed.

The rate of people killed by guns in the US is 19.5 times higher than similar high-income countries in the world. In the last 30 years since 1982, America has mourned at least 61 mass murders. Below is a timeline of mass shootings in the US since the Columbine High massacre:

December 11, 2012. On Tuesday, 22-year-old Jacob Tyler Roberts killed 2 people and himself with a stolen rifle in Clackamas Town Center, Oregon. His motive is unknown.

September 27, 2012. Five were shot to death by 36-year-old Andrew Engeldinger at Accent Signage Systems in Minneapolis, MN. Three others were wounded. Engeldinger went on a rampage after losing his job, ultimately killing himself.

August 5, 2012. Six Sikh temple members were killed when 40-year-old US Army veteran Wade Michael Page opened fire in a gurdara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Four others were injured, and Page killed himself.

July 20, 2012. During the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, CO, 24-year-old James Holmes killed 12 people and wounded 58. Holmes was arrested outside the theater.

May 29, 2012. Ian Stawicki opened fire on Cafe Racer Espresso in Seattle, WA, killing 5 and himself after a citywide manhunt.

April 6, 2012. Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, shot 5 black men in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in racially motivated shooting spree. Three died.

April 2, 2012. A former student, 43-year-old One L. Goh killed 7 people at Oikos University, a Korean Christian college in Oakland, CA. The shooting was the sixth-deadliest school massacre in the US and the deadliest attack on a school since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre.

October 14, 2011. Eight people died in a shooting at Salon Meritage hair salon in Seal Beach, CA. The gunman, 41-year-old Scott Evans Dekraai, killed six women and two men dead, while just one woman survived. It was Orange County’s deadliest mass killing.

September 6, 2011. Eduardo Sencion, 32, entered an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, NV and shot 12 people. Five died, including three National Guard members.

January 8, 2011. Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) was shot in the head when 22-year-old Jared Loughner opened fire on an event she was holding at a Safeway market in Tucson, AZ. Six people died, including Arizona District Court Chief Judge John Roll, one of Giffords’ staffers, and a 9-year-old girl. 19 total were shot. Loughner has been sentenced to seven life terms plus 140 years, without parole.

August 3, 2010. Omar S. Thornton, 34, gunned down Hartford Beer Distributor in Manchester, CT after getting caught stealing beer. Nine were killed, including Thornton, and two were injured.

November 5, 2009. Forty-three people were shot by Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan at the Fort Hood army base in Texas. Hasan reportedly yelled “Allahu Akbar!” before opening fire, killing 13 and wounding 29 others.

April 3, 2009. Jiverly Wong, 41, opened fire at an immigration center in Binghamton, New York before committing suicide. He killed 13 people and wounded 4.

March 29, 2009. Eight people died in a shooting at the Pinelake Health and Rehab nursing home in Carthage, NC. The gunman, 45-year-old Robert Stewart, was targeting his estranged wife who worked at the home and survived. Stewart was sentenced to life in prison.

February 14, 2008. Steven Kazmierczak, 27, opened fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University, killing 6 and wounding 21. The gunman shot and killed himself before police arrived. It was the fifth-deadliest university shooting in US history.

February 7, 2008. Six people died and two were injured in a shooting spree at the City Hall in Kirkwood, Missouri. The gunman, Charles Lee Thornton, opened fire during a public meeting after being denied construction contracts he believed he deserved. Thornton was killed by police.

December 5, 2007. A 19-year-old boy, Robert Hawkins, shot up a department store in the Westroads Mall in Omaha, NE. Hawkins killed 9 people and wounded 4 before killing himself. The semi-automatic rifle he used was stolen from his stepfather’s house.

April 16, 2007. Virginia Tech became the site of the deadliest school shooting in US history when a student, Seung-Hui Choi, gunned down 56 people. Thirty-two people died in the massacre.

February 12, 2007. In Salt Lake City’s Trolley Square Mall, 5 people were shot to death and 4 others were wounded by 18-year-old gunman Sulejman Talović. One of the victims was a 16-year-old boy.

October 2, 2006. An Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster, PA was gunned down by 32-year-old Charles Carl Roberts, Roberts separated the boys from the girls, binding and shooting the girls. 5 young girls died, while 6 were injured. Roberts committed suicide afterward.

March 25, 2006. Seven died and 2 were injured by 28-year-old Kyle Aaron Huff in a shooting spree through Capitol Hill in Seattle, WA. The massacre was the worst killing in Seattle since 1983.

March 21, 2005. Teenager Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend before opening fire on Red Lake Senior High School, killing 9 people on campus and injuring 5. Weise killed himself.

March 12, 2005. A Living Church of God meeting was gunned down by 44-year-old church member Terry Michael Ratzmann at a Sheraton hotel in Brookfield, WI. Ratzmann was thought to have had religious motivations, and killed himself after executing the pastor, the pastor’s 16-year-old son, and 7 others. Four were wounded.

July 8, 2003. Doug Williams, a Lockheed Martin employee, shot up his plant in Meridian, MI in a racially-motivated rampage. He shot 14 people, most of them African American, and killed 7.

September 15, 1999. Larry Gene Ashbrook opened fire on a Christian rock concert and teen prayer rally at Wedgewood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, TX. He killed 7 people and wounded 7 others, almost all teenagers. Ashbrook committed suicide.

July 29, 1999. Mark Orrin Barton, 44, murdered his wife and two children with a hammer before shooting up two Atlanta day trading firms. Barton, a day trader, was believed to be motivated by huge monetary losses. He killed 12 including his family and injured 13 before killing himself.

April 20, 1999. In the deadliest high school shooting in US history, teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Kiebold shot up Columbine High School in Littleton, CO. They killed 13 people and wounded 21 others. They killed themselves after the massacre.

A Timeline Of Mass Shootings In The US Since Columbine | ThinkProgress

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Rest in peace......... May god help their parents

 

[Sugarcane]