Is anybody else struck by the whole attitude of the foxies with regard to this tragic situation?

At no point in time over the past 24 hours have I heard any of the foxies complain about the lack of information. They have been accepting, without a peep, the cautionary statements by police and informed persons that it will take weeks even months to get the full story of what happened in CT.

Totally unlike their coverage of Benghazi which is not – so far as I know – located within the USA. Just saying.

Apologies for the typos in the last post but was too het up to read it before posting and spellcheck didn’t pick them up. Humans are still better than machines!

I agree fully with sandman1. I actually went to a shooting range to experience the “thrill” of shooting a pistol (was dating a sportsman). I’d learned how to use a rifle and shotgun as a kid and was able to hit the target. It was completely different with a pistol and that experience taught me how utterly stupid it was to allow such toys to proliferate.

Fewer guns would already reduce the risk of situations where bullets are flying around. Please note that did not write “eliminate”. This is simple arithmetic. Fewer guns = fewer situations.

Further reductions in the likelihood of a crazy to commit carnage could be obtained by apply four very easy-to-implement measures:

1) a total ban on the rapid-firing toys that exist only to shoot people in large numbers; anybody who uses such toys for killing deer, ducks, even varmints is – to my mind – potentially dangerous for people; that person certainly does not merit the appellative of “hunter” and most of them don’t even keep their arms in a sturdy locked cabinet;
2) background checks (not a mental assessment which is far too invasive of individual privacy);
3) mandatory training in a licensed shooting range where competent instructors can instill a more responsible mindset;
4) mandatory insurance (as already recommended for the owners of cars and large pets: mind-boggling that the same principle is rejected for guns)

Cue Doug Rowan who I actually do think is paid by the NRA. He keeps on talking about himself as a responsible gun owner to justify his rejection of any form of regulation that would bar ownership by the crazies. No dialogue: only text from the NRA handbook.

@truman: given the quality of the alleged “food” I ate in high school, neither an AK-47 nor any other firearm was necessary for the cafeteria ladies to commit bodily harm . . .

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@sandman1: Actually, Ablow should have his medical license pulled permanently for his TV malpractice. He’s violating any number of medical ethics standards and practices every time he opens his mouth.

People like Ablow think that carrying a gun will turn the avg. citizen into jack bauer…..right up to the moment a gun is put to your temple, which turns nearly everyone into a quivering blob. Ablow should stick to solving bulemia issues or whatever.

Here’s a bit of irony that Ablow ignored: The guns which killed the shooter’s mother were purchased and registered in her name.
Gee…it seems that technically, at least, she WAS armed….but died at the end of her own gun.
Now….what could be wrong with that picture, Ablow?
People like Ablow are insane…and those that believe them are largely responsible for what occurred in Connecticut.

Not to take anything away from this horrible senseless tragedy, but how well does he think a young woman (or man) who spent 4,6 or 8 years training to teach elementary school children, will do against crazed gunman with semi-automatic weapons? Police officers and military personnel train for months, and continually to develop such skills. Not only that, they are called upon, and encounter such threats as part of their jobs. Outside of having a trained para-military/certified police/highly qualified educator/sociologist as teachers and principals, one would have to ask… what in the hell is Ablow thinking???

@mj—the same one. Why stop with the students? Issue AK-47s to the cafeteria ladies.

Because everything, everything on Fox gets politicized.

“I only wish the kindergarten teacher and principal in Connecticut had been armed.”

Well, why stop there, Ablowme?

Why not advocate for the kids to be armed, too?

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