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MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Quickly Laments Lack of Gun Control in Wake of School Shooting: ‘Gun Violence Has Been Epidemic in This Country’

Dec. 14, 2012 1:53pm Jonathon M. Seidl

In the immediate aftermath of the Connecticut elementary school shooting in Newtown, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell was quick to bring up gun control, lamenting that there doesn’t seem to be enough of it.

Before any facts of the shooting were known (such as what type of gun was used or even the mental state of the shooter), Mitchell rattled off gun control issues championed by the left:

“When we talk about gun violence in this country, we’re not talking about Second Amendment rights. We’re talking about…reasonable background checks, reasonable controls, automatic weaponry and ammo, the multiple rounds that cause the greatest amount of violence. … Gun violence has been epidemic in this country going back decades. And we go through temporary periods…where we have an assault weapon ban, and then it is permitted to expire, David.”

But in what might shock some, colleague David Gregory threw some cold water on her hot comments, cautioning her to wait until more information was available.

“We know the contours of this debate, and it will get heated after an appropriate period of mourning and absorbing this tragedy. But it is worth adding all sides of the debate,” he cautioned. “We don’t know what the motive is here. We don’t know more about the shooter. We don’t know about the weapon involved. What we know is this is another horrible case of gun violence.”

After Mitchell cut to an interview with one of the children in the school at the time, he continued: “There’s so many facts that we just don’t know, so we shouldn’t speculate about.”

Another contributor later piped up: “And of course gun control not an issue at all in the presidential campaign.”

And even though Gregory did somewhat entertain that thought, he cautioned again that “even if the starting point is we have an epidemic of gun violence…how do we address this that doesn’t just automatically go to the place of gun control. Again, in this situation we have no idea, what the access to weapons here, what any of those factors were, and we won’t speculate on that.”

Watch it unfold, below:

Later on in her show, Mitchell brought on Jeffrey Goldberg from The Atlantic. Goldberg was quick to criticize gun laws and even said the gun lobby doesn’t want “any background checking whatsoever” (a dubious claim), but then added that it’s still wrong for the left to “demonize” legal gun owners:

This story has been updated with additional video and quotes.

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ClaudeRains
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:18pm
Stupid talking heads are epidemic in this country but you still have a job Andrea.

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- dealer@678
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 9:35pm
  If i looked like her i’d be pissed at the world too
  
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- smv803
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 1:17am
  M=mindless
  S=sociopath
  N=numbskull
  B=brain dead
  C=cogent less
  Have I covered all? Good!
  
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- 1911a1
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 1:34am
  Perhaps we need to ban microphones? It gives agenda driven moonbats and platform in which to speak /LIE !
  
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- DIR
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 2:17am
  There is an epidemic in this country, it’s suffered by the left and causing them to turn this country into a socialist utopia for elite progressives who think they’re smart and want the rest of us dummies to live under their stupid self seving world view as their personal slaves. Guns may not insure this won’t happen, but it will certainly slow the onslot. When Union thugs start wearing the white robes, they made famous after the civil war, and show up at a location where you are ,a firearm can make a major statement without uttering a word, Andrea is concerned that when the public finds out what she and her’s are up to, they will come to her place of work, or maybe where she lives, haul her out at the end of a shot gun, tar and feather her and send her packing to, say, Cuba.
  
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- December15
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 7:40am
  Actually gun violence is down along with just about every other crime in recent years. And stricter gun control laws would not have prevented this murderous rampage, look at the guy in China that stabbed over 20 people in a school with a knife. Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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- Goodforall
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 7:59am
  This is so absurd-guns don’t kill people any more than an axe , knife, or baseball bat does. People kill people! Why not look at our society to see where this sickness starts? There were still guns around 50 years ago when I was growing up and we never saw anything like we are seeing now. Seems to be happening on a regular basis. It is inconceivable how a person could be so evil and callous to kill little innocent children-my heart goes out to their parents.
  
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- aidan_turner
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 6:22pm
  my co-worker’s sister-in-law makes $78/hr on the computer. She has been without a job for eight months but last month her payment was $15521 just working on the computer for a few hours. Go to this web site and read more… http://goo.gl/6BVHU
  
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- kenboo1
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 8:05pm
  We first need to ban motor vehicles – More Americans (children too) are killed each day by motor vehicles than by guns. Then we need to ban Abortions…
  
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- vonstro
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 8:57pm
  This woman looks like a horse that’s been rode hard and put away wet!
  
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bmfh58
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:16pm
Too soon to tell..but i have to wonder who dropped the ball in notifying someone regarding this individual…much like the last mass shooting…was it a mental – domestic issue that was let to fester? guns, knives, bombs etc don’t kill by themselves.

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- JMJ6391
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:13pm
  I think this man’s problems were long in the making. Normal people do not just get up one morning and say “I’m going to go kill a bunch of young children”.
  
  I live in Illinois and the state is broke. Even after doubling the state sales tax it hasn’t helped. I’m not blaming either party since both like to blow taxpayers money these days, but what is being cut here to try to balance the budget? Programs for the disabled, and mentally ill.
  
  If this man had been crying out for help like I know many are and not getting it, then we need to find a way to cut back on grants for things like the sex life of frogs or whatever cause celeb of the moment that can survive without our tax dollars so that we can afford to help those in real need.
  
  Gun control is not the problem. Here in IL we have strict gun laws but criminals always get access. We need to help people BEFORE they get to the point they even contemplate hurting someone else.
  
  My prayers go out to these families. My grandmother lost her 10 year old son to a drunk driver just days after Christmas back in the 50s and she carried that pain every Christmas until she died. I’m sure these families are going to need a lot of prayers and support to get through this.
  
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- obfuscatenot
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:20pm
  Exactly, how did the insane guy use logic? I know what you mean though. Sadly, our kids are not taught reason and logic in school anymore, it only serves to educate the child for the child’s sake, not for interdependence, and other progressive code words for socialism. No guns…..no America.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:27pm
  Amen .. and just heard Obama speak … he is promising something will be done in the coming days… NEVER LET A GOOD CRISIS GO TO WASTE. I think we need to ban “gun free zones” too bad someone was not able to DEFEND these children. As for gun ban .. how many know this?
  
  “The worst mass school murder in American history took place on May 18,1927 in Bath Township, Mich., when a former school board member set off three bombs that killed 45 people.”
  
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- Lily82
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 7:15am
  JMJ6391 is exactly right. Mental health services across the country are being gutted in sacrifice to fiscal constraint while “vote getting” yet wasteful funding remains intact. MH services are not a luxury but an absolute necessity for the millions of Americans who are truly suffering. It is highly unusual for someone with a MH disorder to take such violent, aggressive action; most often they are the victims of violence. Although we still don’t know enough about what was going on in this situation, I suspect that somewhere along the way the accessibility and quality of MH services probably played a role.
  
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- Leonard1
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 7:55am
  The moral compass of the nation has steadily eroded over many years. Violence and massacre is a common theme in movies and games. Political arguments for the termination of pregnancy late in the third trimester disdain the use of the word “life”.
  Even people capable of such murderous atrocity once, at least, felt some societal restraint. Mentally ill? Probably, but there was a time before computerized massacre games, realistic TV depictions of brutal crimes, and realistic massacre movies when he might have to have thought a bit harder to come up with this idea.
  
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- piper60
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:39am
  PMSNBChas become the home of moon bat hysteria.Push yjr button and the knees jerk on cue.
  
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- piper60
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 8:59am
  The gun grabbers have been trying to finagle their way around the Bill of Rightsfor ages. There’s little residual trust left for the ‘goodwill”of the knee jerkers whose first reaction to any problem is to steal other people’s rights.
  
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SaturdaysWarrior76
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:16pm
Seems it has become epidemic since O took office! I have never seen a country so divided as this spawn of satan has made it. And he revels in it like a pig in mud.

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- Rogue
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:38pm
  Well said. No one brings up how divisive this POTUS has been, and the hatred he has cultivated. Vote out of revenge? Punish our enemies? When the leader of the free world encourages you to hate those who disagree with you, how can you be surprised when things like this happen.
  
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- glennpatstu
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:44pm
  You are an idiot. This has nothing to do with Obama. Do you not see the irony of you making a comment politicizing this tragedy in the comments section of an article deploring the politicizing of this tragedy?
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:00pm
  Its the terrorist organization, the NRA that has more blood on its hands.
- decendentof56
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:34pm
  I’m an NRA member, and I haven’t shot anyone today. Good grief, I haven’t shot anyone for all of my 65 years. I gotta get busy!
  I forgot…how are we going to stop that black-market for guns…..you know, like the one that already exists in the Justice Dept?
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:37pm
  DOPIZOID: DO we get to count the lives saved because some with a gun stopped a mad man or woman (usually punk kids about your age no doubt) . STHU with this 2nd Amendment nonsense.
  
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- MrSunshine
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 4:46pm
  Encimoron, you are sofa king stupid it’s almost painful. Do you libs just flap your gums to hear yourselves? You make no sense EVER! Please quit spouting your lib moron talking points and go away. You are like watching a toilet overflow. Dammit man, call a plumber!
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 6:06pm
  It become epidemic when conservative, christian politicans cared more about their jobs and NRA blood money than the lives of America’s children.
  
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- strawberry411a
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 9:05pm
  ENCINOM: I agree The Irish are responsible for this mess…always have been.
  
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- strawberry411a
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 9:11pm
  encinom: you are on the money. This can be traced all the way back to the Irish politicians in the NRA. It is a conspiracy! And i think you are in on it….or you missed the boat.
  
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- LIBSALWAYSLIE
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 7:53am
  ENCINOM, is a pathetic imbecile with no ability to think. Clearly he’s mentally deficient, in other words as dumb as can be. What a hate filled moron! This idiot thinks you can un-ring a bell and un invent guns and make them all disapear! Explain to us wise one. How do you get the guns out of the hands of criminals? Do you think they’ll be first in line to turn them in if guns were banned?? What an idiot!!!!!
  
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- Goodforall
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 8:02am
  @Encinom-go crawl back under your rock. We don’t need any of your liberal BS! You are as brain dead as that shooter was.
  
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- Steamtrains
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 1:27pm
  The sad part is the pig rolling in mud serves a much needed and necessary purpose for the pig namely body temp control because they don’t perspire and insect control the mud forms a crust that the bugs can’t bite thru. What can be said about Obama
  
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Walkabout
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:15pm
The Bath School disaster is the name given to three bombings in Bath Township, Michigan, on May 18, 1927, which killed 38 elementary school children, two teachers, four other adults and the bomber himself; at least 58 people were injured

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- CatB
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:38pm
  Yes … thank you for posting — I have also .. I grew up in Michigan and remember hearing this story .. decades later … truly if someone wants to do evil they will find a way. Too bad no one was there to DEFEND these children. A bomb is another thing …. had to defend against.
  
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CALLMEMSGT
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:14pm
Andrea needs to practice some mouth control!
Why is that when I see a Brinks Truck carrying a few hundred K in stinky old dollars bills it is guarded by two men with guns but a building with 700 6 year olds is left unprotected. Nice priorities. Armed staff should be required or at least some old fart bitter clingers with CCW willing to volunteer some time.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:34pm
  More churches & synagogues will get protection. Look where the high scores have been. Church & synagogue massacres have been averted with low loss of life. Mall shootouts have not been all that productive (from the criminal view point). School shooting have been (FROM A CRIMINAL’S VIEWPOINT) highly productive.
  
  It is much easier for a congregation, a smaller body of people, to come to a consensus & become a hard target. Malls have many people but they are also large. It is easier to scatter. Some have security & some people will have CCW.
  
  Most schools on the other hand are liberal controlled zones. Go figure
  
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Rafterman
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:13pm
Funny that most of the things mentioned in her rant have been fairly well addressed by the thousands of gun laws already on the books. If outlawing guns is the answer, why don’t we just outlaw deranged cowards and really solve the problem.

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- KNaggieland
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:47pm
  If you outlaw deranged cowards then you have to dismiss most of the House of Representatives, the Senate and all of the Administration.
  
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- changedone
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 7:20am
  Yeah, I smell a rat. The timing of this attack and the the recent others is suspicious. The mall shooting in Colorado and now this one involving children…just after the Obama administration purchased all those millions of rounds of ammunition. I don’t think this is coincidence. I think this whole scenario has been planned out in advance to start a new gun and ammo ban.
  
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Lotus503
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:13pm
Hey, Andrea! Check this out. A crazy with a knife in China attacked school children in China.

http://www.courant.com/sns-rt-us-china-stabbingsbre8bd065-20121213,0,5592318.story

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h20sue
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:12pm
We live in the country, and there are tons of guns around us. Our neighbors have guns. We are not out killing people because we own guns. We use our guns for protection and food!

The liberals are all over this because they have less sense then a turnip.
Guns don’t kill, people kill! What was wrong with this young man. Probably on SPICE. They need to stop the drugs, the welfare fraud, and then then everything will fall into place. I’m sick of Andrea Mitchell and her lefty thoughts. She needs to learn to keep her PIE HOLE SHUT.

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- Gregb
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:25pm
  and the liberals want to legalize drugs and outlaw guns…
  
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- oldguy49
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:40pm
  nope…….the libs are legalizing drugs………..
  
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- CenterLineStripe
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 10:49pm
  Marijuana is not a drug you old fart. It has less side effects than all those drug COMMERCIALS you see on every station. It does not cause blindness, constipation, heart attack, stroke, seizues, nausea, loss of appetite, shakiness, premature ***********, rash, loss of sex drive (kinda), sweating, liver failure, its non-habit forming, and you can drink alcohol while taking it. If the govt would put it in the same category as perscription drugs, with many having the prestated side effects, then maybe hardcore research could be done to find ts true potential to help people. Im sure you’re also aware of its industrial/commercial uses as well, right?
  
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FightingBear
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:11pm
At this point, about the only thing we can say with any certainty is that if teachers and administrators were allowed to carry on campus…there wouldn’t be 27 dead people.

When we take the guns out of the hands of the good people who can neutralize a nut case….well….we will continue to see more tragedies like this one.

Anyone who says otherwise is brain dead..

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- integrican
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:42pm
  I wonder why teachers aren’t in an uproar about being forced to be defenseless.
  
  It is these Gun Free Zones that attract sickos that want to go on a rampage, unopposed….PERIOD!!!
  
  If it weren’t for guns, the big and strong with clubs and knives would rule the day, would that be good or bad???
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 10:47pm
  Teachers don’t want to be armed, they are mostly the same liberal traitors that want gun control. They want to wait for the police to save them (see how far they got?)
  More people are murdered because of gun control and liberal lawmakers. They should be banned. every able bodied/sound minded American should be required to carry a firearm at all times. It should be a requirement for citizenship, no more automatic citizens. Every person born here should have to actively choose to be citizen.
  
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MCGIRV
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:08pm
I lament a lack of nut control.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:25pm
  That is it. Iraq’s murder rate is 1/2 the U.S. rate. They are allowed to keep one AK 47 per household or adult male. Obviously, they have a lot of guns over there. But you know if you start some sh/t there, they are going to get you, police or civilians banding together. If they get you alive, you will get a trial & you will be sentenced inside a few months. That is a big difference.
  
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- desertspeaks
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:26pm
  There is a secret in the second amendment that few speak or know of and that secret is that the second amendment will only be needed when they come to take it away. This was attributed to having been said by Thomas Jefferson!
  
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Daddy Hawg
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:08pm
Prayers and condolences to those with family and friends involved in this tragedy. Now is not the time to politicize such and event. Mitchell has evidenced that she has no heart or feelings for the victims of this event.

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- charles116
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:46pm
  This is not about Andrea Mitchell.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:09pm
  So, Charles, you didn’t read the article?
  
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- MrSunshine
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 5:05pm
  It is according to the headline Charles.
  
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 6:07pm
  Andrea’s sorry that she doesn’t need a gun. She has her face.
  
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Sandy
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:07pm
Funny how most of these shootings happen in Liberal territories run by liberals………

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- I Aint PC
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:20pm
  Those are also the areas with the strictest gun control laws.
  
  More gun control laws, limiting law-abiding citizens their 2nd Amendment rights, are the same laws encouraging criminals to commit more crimes. If the mass populace is unarmed, they are free for the taking.
  
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- glennpatstu
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:47pm
  Shocker that anyone reading this site is uniformed, but we have very loose gun laws in CO- lots of ccw and yet s**T still happens. And we are barely a ‘blue’ state. If only people (esp those who claim to be Christians) could see that we are all neighbors, maybe we could get into an actual conversation rather than hurling insults back and forth as if we are enemies.
  
  Shame on you.
  
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- usedCZARsalesman
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:03pm
  GLENN, what “actual conversation” do you want to have? It’s VERY EASY…EVERY SINGLE city/state that has heavily regulated gun laws has HIGHER violence rates, PERIOD. No “conversation” needed. Gun control only takes guns away from law abiding citizens.
  
  Think about it for just a second. If schools were NOT gun free, and 3-4 of the TEACHERS had CCPs, do you think this would have happened? At the VERY LEAST the death toll is much lower
  
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spfoam1
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:06pm
She’s an insensitive idiot. She uses the death of all these children as a publicity stunt.

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- 000degrees
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:11pm
  She never fails….right on time. Idiot…..
  
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AnOregonian
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:06pm
Violence itself is the epidemic.

Only one cure… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCiLxRCBf40

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- PBG
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:04pm
  With respect, this is the only answer, written and performed by a young mother in response to the death of her toddler son:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX2uM0L3Y1A
  
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objectivetruth
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:05pm
Dear Andrea,
Guns don’t kill people.People kill people.There is a problem though Andrea.Its called the erosion of the second amendment rights along with a progressive destruction of our society that is driving some over the edge.Its called the pinnacle of the infiltration subjegation from the enemies communists nazis muslim brotherhood .There is but one goal for all of them.Its our destruction.If they can do so from within and reasonably quietly they will.If they can do it from within nosily they will.They need a champion and crier.You as a gun control advocate have shown you side with them and are not trustable in any area of public speech rights or responsibilities.If you or anyone thinks that the enemy within, won’t use children and shootings to take away our rights ,you are sadly mistaken.These bozo the clowns will use anything at there disposal.

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Mudd
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:05pm
The problem is the violence, not the guns.

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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:11pm
  Mudd, your logic and common sense is sooooo 20th Century ;-)
  
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- h20sue
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:50pm
  This young man had a problem with his “mom”. She must have done something that really upset him. She’s gone, he’s gone, so who knows why he went beserk. We may never know, but I do know one thing, gun laws will not make a difference. If a person is this sick, they will find a way to do what they want.
  
  It’s also obivious that “O” can’t stay out of the limelight and will be on at 3:00 PM. We know he’s already ordered help from all government departments, and the parents can’t be ready to see “O”. He just wants to make himself seem “important”. Yadda, yadda, yadda. Sad world we’re living in….
  
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- Mudd
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:58pm
  Tsunami. Lol, Thanks!
  
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gyro
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:04pm
Andrea Mitchell your so ************
so sad to rant in this time

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Sunny10
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:03pm
To Andrea Mitchell,
Children died today, their parents are suffering. I can see you do not understand how they must feel or even consider their feelings. This is a day to pray for the parents and the survivors. It is a terrible and devastating day. So, for once do not use something so sad to promote your Socialist/Communist agenda that includes violence and threats. We do not want to hear it!!!!

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:03pm
BLAST THEM ALL ALREADY!!!

The Democrats cannot even wait a day or an hour before spinning this great disaster to their gain and blaming the ‘lack of gun control.’ May God’s judgement be delivered upon all such people soon!!!

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- DesertRose1960
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:15pm
  What do you suppose God’s judgement will be on those who wish ill to the people who are appalled by a violent tragedy and only seek to prevent others from experiencing something like it in their own lives?
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:36pm
  DesertRose1960
  
  Why is Iraq’s murder rate less then double of Britain’s & less than 1/2 of ours. Every adult male there is allowed an Assault rife?
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:47pm
  Rose
  Reconcile THIS
  
  “There have been a series of attacks on schools and schoolchildren around China in recent years, some by people who have lost their jobs or felt left out of the country’s economic boom.
  
  The rash of violence has prompted public calls for more measures to protect the young in a country where many couples only have one child.
  
  In 2010, a man slashed 28 children, two teachers and a security guard in a kindergarten in eastern China.”
  
  http://news.yahoo.com/knife-wielding-man-injures-22-children-china-064458804.html
  
  It is people that need to control themselves. If we control people then we become BORGlike. Controlling things will keep a lid on it for a while, but it will bubble over especially after disgruntled people start copycatting.
  
  Face it, you are not a good person. you are a BORG Queen wannabe.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:14pm
  Rosie, you are not seeking to “prevent this from happening to others.” You are politicizing it to gain ground on an agenda item. If you really cared about people, you’d be more interested in the WHY than the HOW. But, let’s not let rational thought get in the way of your progressive agenda.
  
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- Concern4Constitution
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 4:42pm
  Why doesn’t Andrea address the fact that we’ve got a generation of people who are not emotionally mature and are ill-equipped to handle the everyday frustrations and disappointments of life? They think they are protecting a child’s feelings with the “no winner/loser” sports, participation trophies, “feel good” approach to education…but every time they do this, they are robbing children of the opportunity to gain the skills to deal with disappointment. Then when a big matter comes up, they implode–and we will never know what, when, where, they could snap or what they will choose to use.
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 10:53pm
  desert-
  the liberal mindset is the cause of this murder and most others. Most murders are committed by democrat voters. Democrat is the party of criminals and mental disease. The gun control act of 1968 has increased the amount of murders in this country, not lessened them. Without the 2nd amendment you have no other rights.
  
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Rayblue
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:02pm
I bet her tail rattles when a human walks by.

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deerjerkydave
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:01pm
Funny, considering all of these shootings happen in gun-free zones. I have never heard of someone shooting up a gun store or a gun range.

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- HelloWorld
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:05pm
  Safest place to be is a shooting range.
  
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- subic
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:08pm
  Andrea Greenspan, a shill for the UN/Globalist leftwing control freaks, mouthpiece for the international communist media propagandists. Nothing more.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:28pm
  subic
  
  Give Andrea Mitchell a break.
  
  Check her biography.
  
  If she did not criticize us & try to run our lives by influencing law makers, her life would be empty.
  
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redfish52
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:01pm
Andrea…let it go…you are not smart enough to speak on this topic…this is about mental illness and evil. The guns where just the way he chose to administer the evil. If it wasn’t guns it would have been something else. I realize as a “reporter” you are trying to get the jump on your colleges but for now you just need to zip it. There are people to bury and grieving to do.

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- gyro
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:03pm
  perfect way of puting it in this tragity
  
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- rEt_fiELdoP
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:32pm
  @ REDFISH…
  
  Nice way to extend a post…
  
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2smart4libs
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:00pm
Dear news bimbo 27 people were stabbed in China are we goiong to ban knives too??? Maybe if we banned stupid news report might not have the copy cat killings

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Gimme Shelter
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 1:59pm
No Andrea…Liberalism/Progressives had been EPIDEMIC in this country!!

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DougHuffman
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 1:59pm
Awwk! Polly wanna *******! Andreewa wanna pittance. Andreewa practiced her lines for months, wanna kwaker.

Good people ought to be armed as they will, with wits and Guns and the Truth. God Bless Bitter Clingers, damn know-nothings, progressives.

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- MrSunshine
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:48pm
  Doug, you used the “C” word, LOL.
  
  Oh no, not c r a c k e r….Geeeeeeeeeez.
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:06pm
  You are on the wrong side of history,
  Tell it to Ted Nuggets in the pants.
  
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- DougHuffman
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:55pm
  Yeah, I’d like to see the list of the scripts censored words. I did not expect their epithet for a member of the southern rural working class to be censored. I wonder about the N-word, descended from Old Norse hnøggr, akin to Latin cinis for ashes (W7NCD).
  
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- MrSunshine
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 4:54pm
  Charles, what in the name of all that is good and holy are you talking about? I hope you just misplace your post because if not, I’m afraid you may be having a stroke!
  
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- strawberry411a
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 9:16pm
  MISTER Charles one one sixer…………………
  
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