<story><title>Mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut</title><url>http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/14/shooting-reported-at-connecticut-elementary-school/?hpt=hp_t1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>I say the same thing when people in oppressive regimes are silenced with no recourse because the government has no reason to fear it&apos;s own citizens. Sigh. I did not downvote your post, but frankly I&apos;m angry that you just assume everyone who is pro-2nd amendment just isn&apos;t as enlightened as you are.</text></item><item><author>untog</author><text>I can&apos;t wait until the part where we all don&apos;t talk about gun control and carry on as usual. Sigh.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I see my post is being downvoted. I know that it may come across as insensitive to immediately leap to the gun control debate, but frankly I&apos;m more angry than upset by this news. How many times does it have to happen? We have a good 48 hours of emotional outpouring and then everyone forgets it ever happened.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hyperbovine</author><text>Oh, that is such a straw man. In America, the country in which I (and presumably you) live, what&apos;s the body count on the ol&apos; oppressive regime-vs-AR15 wielding madman debate anyways? I&apos;m thinking it&apos;s on the order of 0 to a couple hundred thousand. If everybody in North Korea owned a shotgun, yes, the world would be a better place. I don&apos;t understand why that means children should be murdered en masse, or that I should have to dodge bullets in my own neighborhood (yes, really), all so that you can sleep easier at night knowing that the far-off, nebulous specter of the &apos;oppressive regime&apos; is held safely at bay by your Colt 45.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut</title><url>http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/14/shooting-reported-at-connecticut-elementary-school/?hpt=hp_t1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>I say the same thing when people in oppressive regimes are silenced with no recourse because the government has no reason to fear it&apos;s own citizens. Sigh. I did not downvote your post, but frankly I&apos;m angry that you just assume everyone who is pro-2nd amendment just isn&apos;t as enlightened as you are.</text></item><item><author>untog</author><text>I can&apos;t wait until the part where we all don&apos;t talk about gun control and carry on as usual. Sigh.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I see my post is being downvoted. I know that it may come across as insensitive to immediately leap to the gun control debate, but frankly I&apos;m more angry than upset by this news. How many times does it have to happen? We have a good 48 hours of emotional outpouring and then everyone forgets it ever happened.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>&lt;i&gt;frankly I&apos;m angry that you just assume everyone who is pro-2nd amendment just isn&apos;t as enlightened as you are.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where exactly do I make that assumption? You&apos;ll notice that I didn&apos;t even call for a blanket ban on guns, just that, as a nation, we could actually sit down and have a serious talk about whether people should be able to own weapons like this one for private use:&lt;p&gt;[EDIT: I regret posting the link to the rifle, there&apos;s clearly plenty of debate about it that detracts from the main topic of discussion- and we don&apos;t know any details for definite.]&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/MarlowNYC/status/279655599585775616&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/MarlowNYC/status/279655599585775616&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>