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GOP Rep.: I Wish Elementary Principal ‘Had an M4 in Her Office…Takes His Head Off Before He Can Kill Those Precious Kids’

Dec. 16, 2012 2:06pm Madeleine Morgenstern

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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) on Sunday said he wished the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary had been armed so she could have protected the school when a gunman burst in and started spraying bullets.

“I wish to God she had had an M4 in her office locked up so when she heard gunfire she pulls it out and she didn’t have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands, when she takes him out, takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids,” Gohmert said on “Fox News Sunday.”

The principal, Dawn Hochsprung, has been credited with running into the hallway toward the shooter once the gunfire sounded at the Newtown, Conn. school. Twenty-six people, including Hochsprung and 20 children, were shot dead.

With a renewed nationwide debate over gun control in the wake of the tragedy, Gohmert said “every mass killing of more than three people in recent history has been in a place where guns were prohibited, except for one…they know no one will be armed.”

Asked by host Chris Wallace why the average person needs access to “weapons created for law enforcement,” Gohmert said it goes back to the country’s founding.

“For the reason that George Washington said, a free people should be an armed people,” Gohmert said. “It ensures against the tyranny of the government if they know that the biggest army is the American people, then you don’t have the tyranny that came from King George.”

Gohmert asked, “once you start drawing the line, where do you stop?”

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:54pm
Gohmert is right. We must remember that the only thing that stops a gunman is another gunman. This liberal society causes crazies to exist, be out on the streets, and not allowed to be stopped because those same liberals constantly push for stenuous gun control. They make the problems and then they scream to high heaven when something happens and immediately they attack the constitution. Under a liberal named President Carter, mental asylums were forced to let out anyone who was not a danger to himself or the public (if they wanted to leave), These nuts were to visit some doctors once a month to get their meds and a certain post ofc. box to pick up checks. These people became the homeless and the crazies we see in cities and parks. Needless to say they rarely pick up checks or meds; they are crazy. Now…give some of these a gun.

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- davecorkery
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 10:23am
  You should remove some of the guns under your pillow. It’s affecting your sleep.
  
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- Deb C
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 12:14pm
  I wish to God we could gut the Education system and make parents more in charge of/responsible for their children’s education. I guess we are not there…yet.
  
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charles116
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:52pm
If the death penalty doesn’t deter killings what makes you think anything else will?

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- barber2
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:01pm
  HUH? What is your point?
  
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- Lordchamp
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:03pm
  One thing in and of itself rarely makes a difference. It requires an overall approach of which the death penalty can be a part but only a part. You add in swifter justice, an armed citizenry, etc and you begin to see progress.
  
  It’s too soon to tell the exact reason but over the last few years gun sales have gone through the roof and crime is actually down to some of the lowest levels in years except in the most gun restrictive areas.
  
  Hummmm something to watch it seems.
  
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- DeOppressoLiber
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:07pm
  The shooter had a monopoly on violence because no one else was armed. Had someone been armed they could have engaged the shooter either to buy time for others to get away or kill him outright and ending the situation with a lot less lives loss.
  
  Some of the teachers who died displayed the highest form of sacrifice and selfless service by trying to stop him or sacrifice themselves to do what they could to save the children. If one was trained and armed they could have stopped it with less blood shed.
  
  Take the Green on Blue incidents in Afghanistan they only kill a few before someone stops them with a gun. They did not have a monopoly on violence.
  
  Lt Col Grossman has some very good articles on how video game violence affects children.
  
  http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Teaching-Our-Kids-Kill/dp/0609606131
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:10pm
  Interesting. During my studies I recall reading a lengthy article about the death sentence back in the early ’90s. Of the many thousands of murders annually back then, actually most of the murderers were caught and convicted. Of those put on death row relatively few are executed. Generally, hardly more than a handful, and then only after many years. So many years most die of old age. The conclusion of the study is that we essentially don’t have a death penalty.
  
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- Chango
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:13pm
  I think someone’s in the wrong room.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:29pm
  Carry out the death penalty in a timely manner, as it should be, and it will become effective once again.
  
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- Lordchamp
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:31pm
  No, Charles just spews without thinking. Whether he/she is capable of critical thinking and intelligent debate has not been established yet. To this point, the evidence is that he/she is lacking in those areas.
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:37pm
  A quick public execution of these maniacs would do us more good than a $40,000 injection done in a secret room in some dark room where the public doesn’t see the consequence of doing harm and evil to us. BTW, the death penalty has practically been eliminated in all states due to pansy liberal wishy washy reasons. I for my part, do not want my tax money to support and maintain a maniac for his entire life, while I struggle to meet ends meet. He had no respect for life or liberty, he gets neither. End of story. He can not be trusted back into society, and society has no obligation to keep him fed and clothed.
  
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- sophistree
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:37pm
  Salient point. And this story very much IS about deterrence AS WELL as neutralizing an assailant. That’s what Gohmert is talking about when he cites the stat about such events only happening in unarmed places. Critical thinking (and reading) for children indeed.
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 7:14pm
  Teachers don’t need guns, No guns in schools.
  
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- MBA
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 7:52pm
  Are you kidding me? The latest survey suggesting most of the liberals have an average IQ of 80 (borderline retarded) is definitely true.
  
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- EdtheK
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 8:00pm
  One armed teacher trained in how to shoot, and having awell concealed firearm could have stopped this in an instant. As long as there are no armed authorities in schools, nut jobs like this one or the two in Columbine could have, and would have been stopped. The cry for “no guns in schools, no guns in schools” will leave schools defenseless.
  The school was already a gun free zone. Normal, sane law abiding folks who have guns follow the law. It’s the nut jobs, and people determined to break the law that bring guns into schools and wreak death and havoc. Gun controls on the law abiding would not stop this. The lawbreakers will always find a way around gun control. Just look at Chicago.
  We gave away part of our freedoms after 9/11 inthe name of security, and now not letting a crisis go to waste, the statists see another chance to have us willing surrender more of our constitutional rights.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 8:17pm
  If there is a more stupid member of Congress I don’t know who that might be, unless it’s Michelle Bachmann.
  
  What a fantasy land he’s living in! Yes, every principal in every school in the United States has an assault weapon locked away in their office. When gun shots are heard, they unlock the cabinet, whip out the gun, find the bad guy, and dispatch them with a quick head shot. Good guys 1, bad guys 0. Jeez. This guy is an elected official? Maybe he should be writing the story line for the comics.
  
  His justification for Americans owning assault weapons? So if the government becomes tyrannical, like passing Universal Healthcare legally and through the Constitutional process, or the Dream Act, can whip out their assault weapons and overturn the government. That’s the same fantasy Timothy McViegh nurtured.
  
  Sorry to tell you, but assault weapons have only one purpose, which is to kill a lot of people very quickly. So seriously does it surprise anyone that lots of people get killed in a short amount of time with these weapons? That’s their one and only purpose. There actually is a real world, and in that world the ability to shoot 100 round in a minute never saves innocent lives, it’s just used take them.
  
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- superduper
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 8:20pm
  I reject your premise that the death penalty is no deterrent. How can a person who rapes, and usually gets only 4 to 5 years until they are let out again, when put to death re offend? They are dead and will never commit another crime again. Why do people like you care if evil people are taken out of this world? The world is a better place when they are gone. Prison guards are safer when they are gone. No more prison gangs or other prisoners being victimized. An example is set which makes others think twice. A lot of guys are in prison for evil crimes because it is a badge of honor to them. And best of all….JUSTICE IS SERVED!! You are just plain ignorant if you think it makes no difference.
  
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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 8:22pm
  It’s good to have Protection in a Surprise Emergency Situation – Would you agree? Even if it were just a guard dog to deter…make them think twice. However, in the following situation having a gun was a GOOD THING:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/sultanknish Israeli Driver vs Arab Muslim Carjacker
  
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- ThankYouFounders
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 8:30pm
  @ Send the Meteors,
  
  If there is a stupider comment I haven’t heard it since, well, the last time Obama spoke. The killers target places and people who are unable to defend themselves – such as a school. Pretty easy to diagnose the problem and recommend a solution isn’t it? Change the equation and let principals and teachers arm themselves as responsible citizens should do. They do this in Israel by the way.
  
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- superduper
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 8:56pm
  Once again, sendthemeteors, would rather have our population just sit there and take it rather than be proactive. This murderer first of all shot out a window, before being able to enter. This means he was announcing his intentions all along. This would have given plenty of time for an armed teacher/administrator to have been able to defend the children, rather than everyone hope they can hide well enough. Sendthemeteors thoughts are typical of a person who makes idealistic/unrealistic comments when reality smacks her in the face otherwise. It’s only a matter of time before a foreign terrorist decides to do this at multiple locations. We can’t just wait for the police to show up…the damage is always done by then. Time to be “progressive” and think outside the box sendthemeteors. Isn’t that what your ilk pride themselves on?
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 9:14pm
  @SENDTHEMETEORS No one in the school was armed. They were all disarmed by law, just like you want. Only the criminal had guns. The police came in with all their guns and they weren’t able to do anything, they got there too late. The principle and other school staff confronted the attacker and used their bodies to attack him. You’re telling me, they wouldn’t have a better chance with a gun? Are the lives of the police worth more than the lives of 20 school children and 6 school staff members? You’re freaking insane.
  
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- yourattnplz
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 9:20pm
  @BARBER2 you absolutely right charles116 has no point. That is the liberal/communist way. Talk in circles, spew hatred and blame the G.O.P for everything. Their democratic constituents are to ignorant to think for themselves and seek the truth. Lincoln freed the slave. M.L.K. was a Republican. The Democratic party was started by the K.K.K. Loook it up. Just because Republican offer jobs instead of freee cell phones the Democratic sheep will continue to blindly vote for their party because they’re to lazy to seek the truth.
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 9:20pm
  Liberals and progressives are asking that school teachers and staff members become human shields. That they use their bare hands and feet to confront an armed maniac. They don’t want to allow the teachers and staff the protection the Constitution guarantees them. They’re sick. They rather, in the name of feel good do nothing law, have dozens of children murdered, while they go to their little offices are safe and sound.The US capitol and any major office building, Government or private, has security guards and security measures, but we can provide protection for our own children? Sick.
  
  This world will never, ever, get rid of guns. We can pass a massive worldwide ban on guns today, and there will still be guns in the hands of criminals. Look at Mexico, every drug cartel has gun, although all citizens are banned from owning any guns. They get the cheap from Russia or third world countries.
  
  Liberals want to live in a perfect world that will never exist.
  
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- LeadNotFollow
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 9:43pm
  CHARLES – Not all states have the death penalty and the ones that do, just let the inmates live in our luxurious clean prisons for twenty years, before they are executed.
  
  Most criminals have a better life in prison than they had when they were on the outside. So why not commit crimes and go to prison where you get meals, bed, heat and air, cable TV, video games, gym, conjugal visits, and a college education.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 9:53pm
  ThankYouFounders, so your recommendation is that every principle and every teacher arm themselves. Every teacher of a Kindergarten, elementary school, junior high, high school and college arm themselves with guns. That’s your answer? Seriously? Whose buys all those guns?
  
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- XPat
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 10:01pm
  What a stupid comment considering people like you champion infanticide.
  
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- 700P
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 10:07pm
  Charles116
  
  To quote a great American Hero, “You can go to LLEH, I’m going to Texas.”
  
  Oh wait, you’re one of those enlightened types who believe he was a racist jingoistic animal hater. Why don’t you move to Norway (nothing bad happens there).
  
  Oh wait, not even their police are competent anymore thanks to decades of compassion and empathy training so 76 people a murdered.
  
  How many of these terrible events have happened in Texas post-1966 (significant date)?
  
  Mass shootings happen in gun-free zones caused by mentally ill people like yourself. Take a look in the mirror. I choose to protect myself and my family. I have no problem with you deciding to be a victim but we will not allow you SHEEP to disarm us.
  
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- 700P
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 10:23pm
  And since you, like myself, probably went to public school, it was Davy Crocket (in case you’re wondering). A 1994-type assault weapon ban will not be enough (it didn’t unfortunately story Columbine) so this will be UK/Australia type registration-to-confiscation.
  
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- eadamico70
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 11:00pm
  To Barber-WOW! Really?
  
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- AmericaMustBeFree
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 12:35am
  Hanging in the town square, or beheading in front of the masses still never stopped a murderer from acting out. Lucifer is working overtime and since the mentally ill are easy pickings he is using them to kill the innocent.Needless to say, we live in a very sick country. We will always have the mentally ill..but what we don’t need bombarding us is violent blood thirsty movies, music that is filled with hate and rage and violence which has been made the norm.. violent video games for mature end up in the hands of small children and the mentally ill. Evil is every where and until we stop this madness nothing will change.. Lucifer is winning, and he is gleefully rubbing his hands back and forth.. as he claims souls! Go ahead and laugh.. thats exactly what he wants you to do!
  
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- rawmilker
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:05am
  CHALIE, SEND IN METEORS, I can hear you now, HELP, send the police, or BHO’s civilain security force, we are not free americans capable of taking responsiblity for our own security, please help, lol….apathy is treason……
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:11am
  @SENDTHEMETEORS So your recommendation is that no principle or teacher be armed at all? They live under a freaking rock? What do you think the situation was at Sandy Hook? Every teacher and staff member was disarmed, per the progressive gunfree school zone act. That’s your answer? Seriously? Keep the same ridiculous law intact? I’ll willingly pay more in local property taxes to protect and safeguard my town’s precious children. There have even been firearms instructors offering free defense courses to teachers after this incident. Why has every mass shooting, except for one, happened gunfree zones?
  
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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:57am
  @ charles116
  
  If the death penalty doesn’t deter killings what makes you think anything else will?
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  Kind of like gun legislation that assumes that more than just the law-abiding will comply. You’re 100% right. Similarly, if gun laws don’t prevent killers from massacring scores of unarmed law-abiding people, what else will?
  
  See Charles, even you are starting to understand.
  
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- thetruthseeker711
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 6:54am
  The matter of fact is that the death penalty is rarely used. It is not effective. Punishment only works when it is SWIFT AND SEVERE.
  
  The CDC keeps statistics on EVERY GUN crime , injury and death. The facts prove that gun control does not work. You can also visit the links referenced on the NRA website – there are dozens of statistically based papers on the issue.
  
  The issue is not guns, the issue is the absolute ignorance of morality and love for one another. Parents don’t teach it, schools certainly don’t teach it (in fact, they cannot even teach God anymore). What the hell can you expect from AMORAL children who are bombarded by violence at school, TV, video games, music, comics, you name it. Violence is revered on You Tube. But rather than address the root cause, liberals take away guns. It is easier to make a bomb than it is to buy a gun, by the way……
  
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- Geardo
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:09am
  If guns cause the mass killings, why do they NEVER happen at Gun Shows?
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:34am
  I murder someone ina the most vicious way possible and twenty years laters I get a nice painless needle…..How is that suppose to deter anyone…..Bring back the hang man,bring back the pirate cage . That’s how we stopped piracy whne America was fonded we hung pirate or in extreme cases we placed them in cages hung over coves to starve to death and rot until nothing but bones were left.
  Prisons were an awful place where prisoners that got out of line were beaten mercilessly they only book to read was the bible.
  Today they have three square meals,and a snack,cable t/v heating and air conditioning,free medical and dental,library and gyms. We need to go back at least half way to what prisons use to be. And the death penalty should be you are sentenced to die like your victim or victims.And not in twenty years but rather one year from the date of sentencing.
  
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TJexcite
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:49pm
When is Rep Gohmert going to start a presidential exploratory committee and announce his run in 2016.

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- Big Media Bias
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:52pm
  We need to pick our Tea Party EXTREMIST candidate in 2013. No waiting for the GOP to pick another liberal loser.
  
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- paulrogers
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:18pm
  I would vote for him There is one man with his head on straight. A first move might be to have his replace that ***** we have now as Speaker.
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 7:16pm
  He’s considered even more stupid than Alan West in these parts,
  
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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 8:32pm
  @TJEXCITE – Grand pick – I agree ! Louie is always level headed, has all the facts, and the principles and GUTS to tell the truth – no matter what. He is not shy and I do not believe he can be “bought” or swayed. What a man, humble too.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 9:02pm
  Chuck, another instance when you were better off keeping your parts to yourself.
  
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- spirit of freedom
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 12:10am
  @ send the meteors
  
  no they should send the paddywagon for you. congrats! you are living proof that libitards are mentally challenged and that it is truly a serious mental disease to be a liberal /commie /socialist like yourself.
  please seek some credible help, it could prove valuable if you were actually able to shed those scales from your eyes and maybe, just maybe your mind. well….what there is of it anyway. best of luck with all “that”.
  
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Spidereye
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:47pm
Test

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charles116
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:46pm
I guess we are all lucky Gomer didn’t say they deserved to die
because they were all TERROR BABIES!!!!!

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- Spidereye
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:49pm
  He said the shooter should die…not the children. Read the article…then comment.
  
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- As I See It
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:03pm
  What the heck are you even talking about? The way you babbled maybe we should keep an eye on you.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:09pm
  CHARLES:
  You can start with “Fun with Dick and Jane” and work up to “Run Dick, Run”.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 8:03pm
  our society is obsessed with death and control. We are always at war. Govt tells us we are always under threat of dying while they kill in our name. When hundreds of innocents die in some backwards country, we cheer or shrug our shoulders – it makes sense that many in our population have completely lost grip of reality
  
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maindry
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:45pm
I agree with Rep. Gohmert. I also know that everyone that deals with the mentally infirm
has a responsibility to restrict access to weapons, and also be a watchdog regarding their
behaviors. It is to be expected that Barac bin Lyin and his fraudulent administration
will use this tragedy to further control the populace of this country. His agenda has
reached a point of no return and wants no threats to it coming from the citizenry. His
smoke and mirrors remark about Hugo Chavez being a tyrant was a big “tell”. That is
exactly what he is and the type of government he wants to have. bin Lyin counts on the
majority of the US illiterates to buy his lines of lies…..Sandy Hook…another harbinger.

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- TurboCat
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:43am
  You’re exactly right about that.
  
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Margyt
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:44pm
Remember the day when bussing was the answer to segregated schools? How did that work out? Societal problems are not resolved by catering to the lowest common denominator. How about raising the denominator instead? I can appreciate the sentiment of “if only she had a gun” for this situation but somehow, I can’t see armed guards in the schools or pistol packing teachers as the answer to this horror. OK Corral in the hallways? Society will always have to deal with crazies who do awful things. As society gets more corrupt and evil, the number and intensity increases. As society cyclically crashes and reshapes, God becomes more central in people’s lives and the horrors decrease. We have a choice between bad against evil or good against evil. I will pray for the good and mourn the fact that we are currently living in a society where evil is reaching its full. Meanwhile others can contemplate arming our teachers and then when that isn’t enough advocate arming the children.

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- Lordchamp
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:58pm
  A gun is a tool, merely a tool. Like a hammer, screwdriver, or any other tool. Because people are carrying hammers does that mean we will have a hammer massacre in the hallways? The logic is not valid.
  
  So are you saying that these wonderful teachers will suddenly turn into people running up and down the hallways have shootouts just because they are allowed to carry guns and protect themselves and the children they are responsible for many hour per day? Really? You have that low of a regard for teachers? If so, why are they given ANY responsibility for your children?
  
  Ever been to a gun show? Guns and ammunition all over the place. Never seen a shootout at any I’ve ever attended.
  
  Over 100 million people own guns yet what are the statistics on gun related deaths per that number. Incredibly small. Many things kill more people than guns do…hospitals come to minds.
  
  It’s not the common sense, everyday person that does these things but it’s those common sense everyday people that, if armed WILL STOP IT.
  
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- macpappy
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:21pm
  Lordchamp
  A gun is a tool, merely a tool. Like a hammer, screwdriver, or any other tool.
  I get your point, but a gun is not a tool. A gun is a weapon.
  Weapon – something used as a way of getting an advantage in a situation.
  Tool – an object designed to do a specific kind of work such as cutting or chopping by directing manually applied force or by means of a motor
  Are so says the dictionary. However, I do wonder at what job you use your gun tool for.
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:31pm
  A father goes to work in a well protected building with security and armed guards, yet he drops of his children to a school with no adequate protection against any criminal or madman. A buzzer and camera will do us no good if no one is there to confront the lunatic within time to save lives. In this incident, the police with all its guns, tanks, armor, and personnel, got there two seconds too late. Ask any of these liberal hosts on MSM if they would go to work knowing their building was not secured and protected at all times. Tell me, should we expect less for out most precious children?
  
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- Lordchamp
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:43pm
  I disagree with your logic. A gun is NOT a weapon unless a hammer is also a weapon and a screwdriver is also a weapon. People have killed with both hammers and screwdrivers.
  
  To state that a gun is a weapon places it in a different category than a hammer and a screwdriver in the world of perception. However, ALL these items DO have one thing in common, they require a human being to put them to use. Whatever that use might be, whether to hammer a nail, screw in a screw, protect yourself and your family or go target shooting, or to use any one of the above to kill.
  
  The issue is NOT the items it’s the people behind them.
  
  A gun is used for sport, protection, and hobby. The same a many other items such as a hammer. Although every tool might not meet all of the same uses many will share common uses. I’m not aware of any sports involving hammers but I would also not want to depend on a hammer alone for personal protection. I do however, use both a gun and a hammer in my hobbies. I’m sure that hobbies can and do require “tools”.
  
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- k9tp
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:18pm
  Don’t arm the kids just make the school a hard target rather than a soft target. Why we protect our money in a bank with an armed guard and massive safes yet our most precious assets, our children are simply sitting there easy targets..This has been going on for a long time..see this link…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shootings_in_the_United_States
  
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- QuincySmith
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:32pm
  macpappy;
  
  “A gun is a weapon….– something used as a way of getting an advantage in a situation.” ~~~ You advocate only one side of the equation. A weapon is also a deterrent: if a criminal knows I have a weapon, he is much less likely to select me as a target, he’ll move on to someone like you!
  
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- macpappy
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:40pm
  The deffinition of the two words are what they are, no amount of circle talking will change that.
  Look, ask a cop; who uses his “Gun” for his “Job” which one could call a “Tool”…….He will call his “Gun” a Weapon, not a tool.
  A weapon, no matter what it is…gun, knife, bat, a good sense of humor…is something used to gain advantage in a situation. i.e. “A teachers best weapon is a good sense of humor”.
  Like I said, I get your point, but beating this dead horse is just going to keep you afoot.
  
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- superduper
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 9:00pm
  You can’t see because you are still stuck in the Ozziet and Harriet times of the 1950′s. This is the year 2012/13 and times are different. We didn’t have crazies shooting up innocent school children until just a few years ago. Time to start getting used to the idea.
  
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teapartyconservatism
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:42pm
Rather than unconstitutionally disarming the public, law enforcement must be augmented to increase security at schools by forming rapid response teams comprised of well trained and anonymously armed administrators and teachers ready, willing and able to immediately defeat an armed attacker with deadly force.

The solution is not further eroding our Constitution. Enforce the existing laws sufficient to prevent underage and disqualified persons from purchasing and/or possessing firearms. But usurper Obama won’t let a tragedy go to waste. Instead he and his ilk will obscenely seek to politicize the killings, rather than enforce existing law.

Reject the propaganda and lies i.e., the availability of assault weapons, etc. Assault weapons are automatic weapons that fire measured bursts or continuously fire, with one trigger pull. These are illegal for the public to own. Only qualified gunsmiths and dealers may acquire these pursuant to highly regulated licenses. Any other gun firing one time with one trigger pull, is not an “automatic/assault” weapon.

Any reporter, celebrity or politician implying or outright stating anything to the contrary, harbors ulterior motives sufficient to justify lying. These lying liberals are the real problem. Telling the truth about usurper Obama’s failure to enforce existing laws or comport with the Constitution, would cause productive properly focused public outrage.

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- Capitalist Mama
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:01pm
  This is the solution:
  “Rather than unconstitutionally disarming the public, law enforcement must be augmented to increase security at schools by forming rapid response teams comprised of well trained and anonymously armed administrators and teachers ready, willing and able to immediately defeat an armed attacker with deadly force.”
  
  The right for citizens to bear arms and protect themselves and their neighbors is the ONLY PROVEN solution to violent acts.
  
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- PR-WY
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:58pm
  The general public CAN own a full blown automatic firearm, it is legal! The thing about that is, the government deliberately puts the pay to play price far far beyond the average persons budget to own. Most full auto firearms cost well over $15,000 to purchase simply because of the ‘tax stamp’ that is applied to owning one.
  This price basically eliminates any psycho jerks because it is so much money to throw away if used for crime. I have seen full auto M1 carbines (M16) but the price was $17,500. No way an ordinary person will pay so much just for an ineffective means of firepower. Semi auto is much more effective because it rations the ammunition and forces a true ‘aim and shoot’ rather than wasting tons of ammo.
  
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- Geardo
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:15am
  Your post has the tone that there is something wrong with assual rifles. The NFA of 1934 is illegal, and must be repealed, America was safer when everyone could own military automatic weapons!
  
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Spidereye
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:41pm
The disgusting leftists are using this tragedy to push “gun control”…another leftist name for people control. If there were no guns in the country at all, I can guarantee you that the evil souls who rise up from hell to commit these heinous acts will still find a way.

Without arms, the people are at the mercy of any two bit tyrant in the White House. Obama comes to mind.

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- Lawyer629
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:47pm
  LOL souls!
  
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- PilgrimStuckInBizarroWorld
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:53pm
  I am posting this comment I read on another story.
  * 1929 the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, approximately 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
  *In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915-1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
  *Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally ill, and others, who were unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
  *China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
  *Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
  *Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
  *Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million “educated” people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
  *That places total victims who lost their lives because of gun control at approximately 56 million in the last century. Since we should learn from the mistakes of history, the next time someone talks in favor of gun control, find out which group of citizens they wish to have exterminated. Paul Harvey
  
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- aconstitutionalistlivesinbrooklyn
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:13pm
  To Rep. Gohmert, Right on. To Pilgrim, Thank you.
  
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- Wiley41
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:28pm
  Pilgrim,
  
  Exactly!
  
  One point though during that period in the USSR, 20 mil is the most conservative number. When I was writing a thesis on this way back when, most of my data pointed to the far more tragic number closer to 47 million. But then again what’s another 20 or so million to a socialist authoritarian oligarchy
  
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Lordchamp
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:35pm
Amen and Amen!! So let’s start demanding that our school are NO LONGER GUN FREE ZONES for teachers and administrators.

Call and write your representatives and lets get this stupid law removed. Especially contact your STATE representatives and push for nullification of the federal law forcing us to give our children over to these lunatics to kill.

Arm AND TRAIN teachers and administrators and this lunacy will stop or at least minimized.

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- teapartyconservatism
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:44pm
  Gun free zones = free fire kill zones.
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:47pm
  School are no place for guns.
  Should an armed teacher shoot a student that just punched him or her.
  Get a grip.
  
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- Lawyer629
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:47pm
  LOL amen
  
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- libsrparasites
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:58pm
  In other words…charles116 still prefers that criminals to have unfettered access to school children.
  
  Do you lefetists even think before you post?
  
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- chips1
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:06pm
  There is only one way to get thru those brain dead politicians and that’s money. Schools get paid thru the number of students that attend school each day. If 50% keep their children home, that would wake them up. Just trying to discuss anything with them is useless.
  
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- Lordchamp
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:09pm
  You really respect teachers that little?
  
  If so, then why would any parent give their children over to ANY teacher for 6-8 hours per day?
  
  If they can’t be trusted to control themselves with a simple tool (hammer, screwdriver, gun, or whatever) how can they be trusted with our children?
  
  So police are better people that teachers? Per your argument it would seem so since you would trust police with guns but not teachers?
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:50pm
  @CHARLES116 Your comments prove you’re an idiot and that you hold no reasonable and logical thoughts. Please stop driving a motor vehicle.
  
  If schools are no place for guns, then why did this maniac enter one with guns? Didn’t the liberals pass laws to prohibit him? And why did police show up with guns to confront this guy? That’s because guns are the great equalizer. Any reasonable human being would prefer a gun over the use of his bare hands to confront this lunatic, except you. Laws are no good if they are not enforced. These progressives passed these laws to ensure there would be no school shootings, they might as well have passed gas as it did no good. It has backfired on them, and caused the deaths of dozens. A teacher or principle should be trained in the use of arms in the case of emergencies, not to brake up fights. Your counter arguments are equivalent to adolescents that can’t think coherently. A teacher would be educated and certified to use the gun for protection, not revenge. Guns should only be used when the students and other staff are in danger of losing their lives by any crazy intruder. The fact that you can’t trust teachers to act responsibly and well mannered is baseless and bigoted. How can you entrust children to teachers five days a week, six hours a day, in a room with no one else, but can’t expect them to protect your most precious children also?
  
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- teapartyconservatism
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:28pm
  @ charles116
  
  Actually schools are the ideal place for guns. Then banks, etc, etc,. Perhaps you value money more than than children.
  
  Many public schools, at one time, before the liberal infestation of teachers deluded by fantasies of a nonexistent communist utopia, purposefully ruined public education while opposing vouchers inviting real competition to provide students with quality education, even sponsored recreational marksmanship clubs that were very popular and often proved very valuable for many later in life.
  
  As usual you are wrong about guns and as many have noticed, pretty much everything you post here at the blaze.
  
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- Wiley41
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:34pm
  Chips,
  
  I like where you are going with hitting the purse to get change. However keeping them home won’t change it, when a bulk of the money from schools in many states comes from property taxes that you have to pay regardless if you have kids in that school or even kids at all.
  
  I’m considering more and more home schooling my little ones. Would prefer them learning and frankly being a kid withering peers, but between the killings, the progressive indoctrination, gangs, drugs, etc…. Not much choice left.
  
  When is someone going to be John Gault and build an exclusive community, city, or dare I say state? I’d give up my job and be willing to be a trash man to move their but would need high admission standards
  
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- spirit of freedom
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 12:02am
  @ chalestard 116
  
  no they should punch you in the face instead. you must have an IQ of 10. go back to huffpo, they have lost thier villiage idiot. please go back.
  
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skippy6
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:33pm
This story was on huffblow I posted and got grilled…..I think it’s because Gohmert makes sense….

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- MLeo
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:17pm
  There are people who already apply Gohmert’s idea; http://kdwillis.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/dsc00271.jpg
  
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- MLeo
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:00pm
  Then, don’t forget this one….
  
  “Oklahoma student arrested for ‘plotting to bomb and shoot students at high school’ on SAME DAY as Connecticut massacre”
  By Hayley Peterson
  15 December 2012
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248708/Sammie-Eaglebear-Chavez-Oklahoma-student-arrested-plotting-bomb-shoot-students-high-school.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
  
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mexneck
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:28pm
We need legislation in Texas demanding that at least two teachers be armed everyday with training on how to put down these mentally deranged waste of skin. Call mom and dad for backup, we’re better armed than the cops.

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- rebelwuf
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:34pm
  Why only two? All adults working at the schools should be trained and required to carry.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:37pm
  We need death row inmates to meet their death. We need the law to be the law. We need judges who are not social engineers. We need schools that teach and not indoctrinate… .
  
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- Lordchamp
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:38pm
  Why not every one that wants to carry be allowed? As long as they are trained by qualified individuals and then retrained on a regular basis why not allow all that want to participate to do so.
  
  Teachers are constantly required to retrain on various things. Why not the same with protecting the children they are responsible for 6-9 hours per day.
  
  This is the ONLY way to stop the lunacy.
  
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- teapartyconservatism
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:00pm
  Two armed faculty is not enough but not all faculty should be armed. They should all be trained but those actually armed should be determined by police, based on who best able to respond properly. Those selected are then assigned to an internally anonymous rapid response team, each member known within the school only to other team members.
  
  Anonymously arming only appropriate faculty precludes the otherwise inevitable stealth attacker from entering unarmed, perhaps unable to legally obtain a gun once sensible political pressure demands existing gun laws are fully enforced, from easily capitalizing on a fully armed faculty by forcing the first sufficiently weak teacher they encounter to relinquish their weapon, possibly by suddenly holding a student hostage at knife or even pen point.
  
  Most teachers are liberal socialists who take their freedom for granted, while despising the
  Constitution and those who defend it. They are mentally and emotionally incapable of using deadly force quickly and effectively in an emergency.
  
  If the police qualify more team members than are needed, then arm the optimal number and rotate weapons among them as determined best by police. This denies an attacker the ability to gain advance or real time on site knowledge of who is armed, until they face the wrong end of a properly handled weapon and are about to be schooled on the true meaning of gun control.
  
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- mexneck
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 9:01pm
  Two because that’s how the libs do it. First you get them to think it will be only two so they will say, well that’s not so bad and agree. Then you get the rest. It’s using their own play book against them. Texas is not the conservative bastion it used to be. ******** are moving here in droves now that they have made their home states un-livable with all the laws and regulations they bring with them. I think Texans ought to go out and meet them at the borders to deny them entry but our gutless governor bows down to TDL. I smell regime change in the air.
  
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stopprintn
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:28pm
I sure like Rep. Gohmert, he is most always on the right side of a topic. But, if I had my way I would do away with all gun legislation. Give felons gun rights, mental cases, and every one else over the age of 18. This would eventualy weed out all the trash.

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ResistSocialism
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:25pm
Louie Gohmert one of the few with their head screwed on straight concerning this matter.

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- charles116
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:48pm
  Louie like Allen West is a national joke.
  
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- Lordchamp
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:15pm
  So critical thinking is a joke? Common sense is a joke? Just because you do not use it does not mean it is a joke.
  
  Because you say so does not make it so.
  
  I challenge you to use some critical thinking and put into words WHY they are a joke. Have the guts to discuss openly if you feel that strongly just be prepared to support it.
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 7:19pm
  Critical thinking?
  Stop YOU are killing me.
  
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fedlibertarian
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:23pm
It doesn’t matter if it was an M4 or a handgun or a bomb or a grenade, the piss ant freak had a mission and he should’ve been stopped by his shrink or family, but they neglected his mental state until it erupted. Autistic children need a lot of attention, and monitoring for warning signs needs to become standard practice in the mental health industry. It seems these psychos always slip through the cracks; we’re a detached impersonal society with no sense of community or cohesiveness. Each man for themselves in this ultra-competitive money oriented society and electronic distractions don’t help us learn social skills and empathy. Parents are so focused on their careers they let strangers raise their kids, and the government has destroyed the economy to the extent that both parents usually must work…. Society is to blame for our alienation from one another.

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- Lordchamp
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:49pm
  Ok, I’m going to be very blunt here. and will offend some. Oh well.
  
  There will always be people that do bad things whether it’s because of mental problems of just plain evil.
  
  Government, NO government can take care of ANY one well enough be 100% all the time, not to mention it’s just not their responsibility. Period. So that’s the wrong discussion to have.
  
  If this school had armed teachers and administrators, even if this lunatic had still tried to do this he would have been stopped well short of what he accomplished. Very possibly even before ANYONE was killed…except him.
  
  There should be no hesitation in a situation like this. If someone enters a school in any way threateningly with a gun, they die, no questions asked until after it’s over. If it was a joke…bad joke on them and the next ones will learn from the mistake.
  
  If they were mentally ill, same result. They are dead and children and others are alive.
  
  I’m tired of playing the victim to these people. It’s time we took back control and protect our children and ourselves.
  
  It’s NOT THE GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSIBILITY! It’s OURS!
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 6:06am
  @Lordchamp: You are correct.
  
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G.E.R
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:23pm
This is the same tea party idiot who thinks teachers are incompetent and overpaid.

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- ResistSocialism
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:28pm
  many are
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:31pm
  And G.E.R. is the same Lefty radical who smears Tea Party members as ” idiots.” Like Jason Levin another Democrat who advised making phony, racist posters to smuggle in to Tea party rallies ! Yes, our young, anarchist radicals just love to destroy and cause trouble. Just more of the divisive hate-filled rhetoric of the Chicago radical Democrats doing their ” good job” to tear apart the country. Disgusting administration.
  
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- Rickfromillinois
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:35pm
  Really? When he said that he wished that the principle was armed so that she could have stopped the murderer, just what about that did you find offensive? As for teachers being incompetent and overpaid, many are. Look at what they have been producing and the benefits that they get. Have you seen how difficult it is to get rid of a bad teacher? Frankly as a whole a whole the teachers in the United States have been a failure.
  
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- EdgeOfSanity
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:36pm
  Many attorneys, auto workers, and government workers are also incompetent and over paid.
  
  Wished that the Progressive Left loved the 1st Amendment as much as they hate the 2nd Amendment.
  
  Take away all the guns and the Dictators will be soon to follow.
  
  Even Japan did not invade the USA because they knew the population was armed. This is from military writings released a year or so ago.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:37pm
  I went to school with many teachers in training. I was not impressed.
  
  Still not impressed when a teacher say, you need to send your kid to a doctor so he can be put on Ritalin. This tells me that the “teacher” has a sheepskin, but they sure are not wise.
  
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- G.E.R
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:42pm
  It’s not hate filled you hypersensative crybaby. It’s a fact. And there’s plenty of democrats that are idiots too. The fact is the tea party just has more of them.
  
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- randy
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:52pm
  I don’t think teachers are overpaid and incompetent, I know they are. Idiot.
  
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- libsrparasites
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:53pm
  @G.E.R
  
  It is clear that you are having a difficult time washing the blood of these babies off of your hands there lefty.
  
  There is one fact that remains from this tragedy. You leftists created gun free zones and gave this criminal unfettered access the these children.
  
  Your role in this will not be forgotten…
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:59pm
  G.E.R.: Sorry. I forgot . You are one of our Far Left / Far Right angry , loner anarchists. One of the ” most in need of counseling” crowd. One of those who love to insult, smear and destroy. Most likely to wear a black trench coats/ hoodies and to own a Guy Fawkes mask. An equal opportunity hater!
  
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- G.E.R
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:06pm
  A well regulated militia does not mean that the average citizen is part of that militia. Since the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms applies only to the right of the state to maintain a militia, and not to the individual’s right to bear arms, there can be no serious claim to any express constitutional right of an individual to possess a firearm. You nuts believe that the 2nd amendment is the Constitution’s way of making sure that our government never becomes tyrannical, and ensures that if it does, we will be able to overthrow it. America has over 300,000,000 citizens at last count. No dictator could “take over” without popular support of these citizens. The people who fight and lobby and legislate to make guns regularly available are complicit in the murder of those children. They have made a clear moral choice: that the comfort and emotional reassurance they take from the possession of guns, placed in the balance even against the routine murder of innocent children, is of supreme value. Whatever satisfaction gun owners take from their guns—we know for certain that there is no prudential value in them—is more important than children’s lives. Give them credit: life is making moral choices, and that’s a moral choice, clearly made. Meanwhile, congratulate yourself on living in the child-gun-massacre capital of the known universe.
  
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- G.E.R
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:13pm
  No masks, no coats, and I think everyone has hoodie in their closet. And it’s not hate. It’s sympathic contempt.
  
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- libsrparasites
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:14pm
  @GER
  
  When leftists create a free fire zone (aka “gun free zone”) where our kids congregate, do you expect any different?
  
  Or…were you intentionally making them vulnerable to begin with?
  
  This one is all on you lefty. Feast on their corpses while you can…
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:03pm
  G.E.R, by your definition of the 2nd Amendment. Are you trying to say that our founding fathers wrote such an amendment in the Bill of Rights which explain what the government cannot do to, or stop the citizens from doing, saying, owning, worshiping. That they then set about and violated that amendment? By your definition they should have collected all arms from the people after the revolution, or maybe have waited until after the War Of 1810? Please, tell us why that did not happen? Are our founding fathers then criminals?
  
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- Kregneva
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:09pm
  Walkabout, are you talking about US of A, american teachers? What school district or at least Commonwealth or State do you refer to? Was it before NCLB? You DO realize that local school boards set teacher standards in America, so blanket statements made hereaboutsring a mite strange, eh wot? Gainsay you? Whadda ya reckon we shuld think? Do you think, or Don’t you?
  
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- repairsea
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 7:05pm
  The teachers I worked with were incompetent and over paid in CA. One was teaching children about cotton growing on sheep. Music teachers teaching Algebra without a basic Math understanding. PE teachers teaching Chemistry when they came out of the closet and were no longer allowed in the locker rooms. Unqualified teachers promoted to administrators. A vice principal busted for molesting mentally handicapped students but promoted because he was black. Do you know as a CA teacher you are not allowed to call the police no matter what the situation?
  
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- dsvet-1991
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 7:49pm
  GER said – “A well regulated militia does not mean that the average citizen is part of that militia. Since the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms applies only to the right of the state to maintain a militia, and not to the individual’s right to bear arms, there can be no serious claim to any express constitutional right of an individual to possess a firearm. You nuts believe that the 2nd amendment is the Constitution’s way of making sure that our government never becomes tyrannical, and ensures that if it does, we will be able to overthrow it.”
  GER, ever here of the Selective service enrollment for all able bodied males at age 18 in the USA ?? Kinda blows your theory of the average citizen Not being a part of the militia out of the water, although im sure you will find your own meaning to the process.
  
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searching for the Truth
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:22pm
Dang! Can yo say that? My Father says he should have been around when mom was hurt by bad men.

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deb7505
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:22pm
Nothing surprises me anymore…

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:28pm
  Hollywood, MTV, television programming, and violent games (computer/Xbox… ). Trash celebrity idols, gangsta rap… all held up to our kids as examples to adore.
  
  It’s no secret. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/19/opinion/oe-stein19
  
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Thighmaster
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:19pm
To get an idea of at least part of the problem look at where the courts are on the Fort Hood shooter and the wild eyed theatre shooter, I could go on but you get the picture. There are attorneys crying in the corner right now because they won’t get paid to represent this monster..

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- txn4justice
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:28pm
  You are probably right. Some are still arguing about his “rights” because of his beard. Delay, postpone, delay, etc, etc meanwhile taxpayers are paying for this crappy service.
  
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NO_MORE_OBAMA
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:18pm
NEWS FLASH …… The muslims are watching. The teachers need to be armed now.
The schools will be our next 9-11

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- Eraty Bab
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:20am
  You got that right. They know where to hit us where it hurts.
  
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momrules
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:14pm
Boy, the libs will hate him but I agree 100% with Rep. Gohmert. Dawn Hochsprung was a brave woman but she went into a gun fight with her bare hands.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:23pm
  He is absolutely correct. Watching Fox News, and two Jewish progressives, Wallace and Lieberman, are pushing gun control. Far too common and far too disingenuous.
  
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- Look4DBigPicture
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:26pm
  I just love the Gohmert. He holds back nothing and makes more sense than most everyone else in Washington. And yeah … the libs absolutely hate him. bwaahaha
  
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- everydaywoman
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:49pm
  Agreed.
  
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Hearmenow2
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:14pm
The great contradiction in the recent Newtown, Conn. elementary school shooting is that many of the parents who are horrified at violence directed at their children are the very same parents who allow their children to inundated with simulated violence from every imaginable direction.

Many of the very same kids who were seen crying after the shooting incident will go home and watch simulated murder on television, where mass murder is considered “normal” and “acceptable.”

Beyond simulated violence on television, children are also routinely exposed to violence through Hollywood movies. The violence in movies has dramatically escalated over the past two decades, to the point where movies that are considered PG-13 today would have been rated “R” just twenty years ago.

The message? It’s okay for children to witness mass murder on the big screen, over and over again, while dosing them up with mind-altering psychiatric drugs that we already know are linked to violent thoughts and suicidal behavior.

Mass murder from a first person point of view: Video games

And then there’s video games. As it turns out, Adam Lanza was a video game player. He’s being described as “a loner who played video games” according to the Sun (UK).

To truly understand the extent of the simulated mass murder in video games, you need to see it for yourself. The video at the bottom of this article shows a trailer from the latest popular video game being played by children: F

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- mexneck
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:31pm
  You hit the nail squarely on the head.
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:50pm
  My my. You know SOOOO much about folks you don’t even know.
  I love the way you people just make something up (in this case how
  these parents raise their children) and they respond to it to spout your dogma.
  
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- Lordchamp
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:22pm
  And you have nothing to add to the conservation except to attack people for their opinions while at the same time espousing your “opinions” as being correct. Hypocrite comes to mind.
  
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Silversmith
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:12pm
I have heard that the Principal and Vice Principal were certified last year. Does nothing in a gun free zone though. Makes me question the validity of that designation.

Silversmith

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txn4justice
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:11pm
Me too!

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:08pm
Having an firearm handy for the Principle wound not have guaranteed the shooter would have been taken down, though at least there would have been a chance.

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- Silversmith
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:14pm
  Not having one guarantees that the shooter wouldn’t.
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:20pm
  Silver
  
  True but it would give them some opportunity at a chance to survive.
  
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- Look4DBigPicture
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:22pm
  The point he’s making is shooters rarely show up in places where there’s a possibility they’ll be faced with a gun.
  
  Had the principal had a gun, she likely would have tried to get to it, rather than lunging at him to knock him down. Her only weapon of defense was her body.
  
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- ResistSocialism
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:27pm
  Could also be a deterrent for some nut jobs once word gets around the schools are not such easy targets.
  
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- skippy6
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:34pm
  As the saying goes never take a knife to a gun fight….
  
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- Silversmith
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:36pm
  @Oldsurfrat — Sometimes I’m not clear. I think the Principal having a weapon is a good idea. It’s a pity she didn’t. I know she was certified for her permit to carry. I think schools being a “gun free zone” is a mistake, given the up and coming culture of today.
  
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- grimmster
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:30pm
  @Snow, no there would not have been a guarantee,but as others have said,maybe the deaths would have been lessened.I was talking to a “friend” who made a comment about the cost of posting extra law enforcement at schools,or even hiring private security firms.I told them to get rid of public service unions,and feeding their retirement and and pension funds.Boy that went over like a lead balloon.Funny when i mentioned the protests Wisconson and how the teachers were protesting for the kids, they abruptly ending our conversation………
  
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- starview
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:34pm
  If the shooting went on for over twenty minutes, and if there was a gun, say in the principals office someone would have been able to get it, and stop him sooner……
  
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