School Shooting Newtown CT

[TPA85]

I just came across this "how to help Newtown" page on abc7. Sharing for anyone who's interested.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?se...rbs&id=8923497

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by adpimiz

I completely agree. However, if criminals knew that schools had security guards or something of the like, maybe it would stop them from trying to shoot up schools. Criminals pick security free zones to commit crimes because everyone is defenseless.

Most of the criminals in school shootings have been active students with an ax to grind. We don't know why the Newtown shooter did this. I read that he destroyed all of the computers in the house so they have forensics specialists retrieving data to see if there is any clue to motive there. We may never know, but I suspect strongly, in this case, if there had been a security guard, the guard just would have been the first one shot.

This is pretty sombering but I found this list:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777958.html

[AZTheta]

Originally Posted by TPA85

I just came across this "how to help Newtown" page on abc7. Sharing for anyone who's interested.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?se...rbs&id=8923497

Thank you so much for sharing this.

The following was posted by Pema Chodron, quoting her own teacher Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, in response to Sandy Hook:

Dear friends - I'm deeply saddened by the recent tragedy in Connecticut. My teacher Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche expressed my own sentiments perfectly, so I'd like to share them with you:

"This is the most incomprehensible tragedy of insanity. There is no way to even begin to understand what has happened. We can only sit with the overwhelming sadness and loss of the innocent. The guardian of humanity could not have to face anything more grave than losing the young unopened buds that were on their way to bloom. We pray that some relief may come in this time of loss and to the broken hearts of the parents, family members, and our countrymen and women. This kind of tragedy is happening way too often in our country, where only a few miles away in Canada, it is a rare occurrence. I join my palms in prayer for America to find a positive resolution to this problem."