Shooting at CT elementary school leaves at least 27 dead, 18 of them children

[patrick1]

Unfathomably sad, eminently predictable. 

[patrick1]

I haven't read enough about this horrible, horrible case but is it the case that the suspected shooter actually had publicly known mental health issues before this? Because that hasn't been the case with many of these spree shooters.

and, again I reiterate, we are talking about a place where it is more normal to be deemed psychiatrically abnormal than otherwise.

You live in a society - as do I - where nobody wants to be normal. Yet most of us are, funny that, isn't it?

But I can't think of a single spree shooting in Irish history. What is wrong with you people?

Probably a topic for another thread but I think the Irish societal sicknesses manifested themselves in greater than normal incidences of sex abuse, alcoholism and religious/sociopolitical murder.

There is quite a bit wrong here and with the structure of of modern society. I wish I had something more profound to say but like Joe I'm just wondering how long until the next one.

[patrick1]

I haven't read enough about this horrible, horrible case but is it the case that the suspected shooter actually had publicly known mental health issues before this? Because that hasn't been the case with many of these spree shooters.

and, again I reiterate, we are talking about a place where it is more normal to be deemed psychiatrically abnormal than otherwise.

You live in a society - as do I - where nobody wants to be normal. Yet most of us are, funny that, isn't it?

But I can't think of a single spree shooting in Irish history. What is wrong with you people?

Probably a topic for another thread but I think the Irish societal sicknesses manifested themselves in greater than normal incidences of sex abuse, alcoholism and religious/sociopolitical murder.

There is quite a bit wrong here and with the structure of of modern society. I wish I had something more profound to say but like Joe I'm just wondering how long until the next one.

I don't think this would qualify as a "spree killing" since that entails murder at two or more different locations within a "short" period of time. There have obviously been incidents of mass murder in relatively recent Irish history with the UVF bombings and whatnot.

Edit: Apparently the shooter killed family member(s) at a different location, so i guess this would qualify

My point more was that you had sick people killing people and using politics as a cloak for their behavior. There were many instances of nutters who just wrapped their warped behavior in a flag. I think each culture has their own sets of issues and they manifest them in different ways. I really can't play arm chair shrink as to the why American is the leader in mass shootings. I think the how should be painfully obvious.  

[patrick1]

It's not a coincidence that 90% of these mass shootings happen in the US.

Too lazy to check wiki, but is that true? Off the top of my head in recent US history we've had:

1. Connecticut
2. Aurora
3. Sikh Temple
4. NIU
5. Virginia Tech
6. Indian Reservation
7. Columbine

Europe we have:

1. Breivik
2. Cumbria
3. Toulouse
4. Winnenden, Germany
5. 2008 Finland
6. 2007 Finland
7. Dunblane

Where do the smaller shootings happen. The US. There are so many smaller shootings in the US that it vastly outnumbers Europe.

Yeah, sadly the three dead type ones barely make some news programs.