WTF is wrong with these people???!!! Please do us all a favor and if you want to shoot someone start with your fucking self!!!! This has me so very upset!! I am beside myself with grief for the parents of these children!! I can very much relate to this kind of terror. My own children were kidnapped by their biodad several years ago. He is mentally unstable and it was shortly after our divorce was final. The reason we divorced was do to his unwillingness to identify that he had a mental illness (bipoloar/schizo) and take meds to help himself. During the year it took to get divorced (he kept contesting it saying I had no grounds) he stalked me, harrassed me and showed up in the middle of the night with a gun trying to gain access into MY house! The judge still granted him "supervised" visits. Supervised by his parents. Not the most reliable human beings I assure you. One night on an overnight visit, he took off with them! The police didn't catch him until he made it to the Canadian border! And he was armed! My fear the entire 24 hours that this happened was that out of spite he had killed my children! I hate him. I hope he dies. Instead he gets to live off the taxpayer dime in a mental institution when in all actuality it would be better if he would just off himself. Sorry about this rant. I've been carrying this load a long time. It's a lot to stuff down all the time. My thoughts and prayers are with these people.

Been keeping up with the news on this one online. SO very sad that they've confirmed children are among the victims.

I got the alert on my phone about another school shooting this morning. My first thought was "next thing you know this crap is going to be happening in Elementary schools"... then I got to work on logged in and sure enough, it was an Elementary school. **SMHD**

It is heartbreaking. I sat at my desk and cried looking at the image of the kids being led out of the school, one little girl just crying in terror. All I could think is, that could be MY little girl. We send them off to school, trusting that they will be home safe in our arms at 1:50 in the afternoon.

I can't wrap my mind around this. I don't understand.

The first thing I thought was why can't these people just shoot themselves instead of taking innocent people and kids with them. Why bring others into their miserary? So they are miserable and so what? That doesn't mean they should kill others. Geez! It just pissed me off to no end that these people want so much attention or what ever the bell that they have to kill people they don't even know or people they do and kids.

Again so you are miserable and so? Fix yourself or off yourself but why kill others?

We just had a shooting in a mall here in Oregon the other day. Two victims dead, one critically injured. Shooter shot himself.

I still can't figure out what's wrong with this world any more.

Perhaps I am shell shocked but I have a good mind to just pick my son up early from school today. Don't know why. But these nutjobs always "inspire" other nutjobs to copycat. It terrifies me. :?

And for the shooter to be a FATHER of one of those kids???

My DH is constantly concerned about me working in a school. I keep telling him that they have really strong security here. It's just horrible that people would even CONTEMPLATE doing something so horrendous.

I just read another news report and I just want to throw up.

All of those innocent kids and adults. I am heart-broken for their loved ones. I just want to cry.

I am just sick and can't wait to get home to my BS3. Why does this keep happening? Why do people keep taking the lives of innocents?? Why does this seem to happen only in the U.S.?? Does this happen in other countries and we just don't hear about it??

I can't even imagine what the parents and families are going through right now, much less what the responders on the scene had to witness and remember for the rest of their lives. God help them all.

This is so sad I can't even watch the news anymore. I'm in Massachusetts but its still too close for me. My bd4 is starting kindergarten in sept. I feel so bad for the families of those poor kids!! And right before Christmas too!! It makes me sick to my stomach and brought me to tears!! What kind of world do we live in that your own children are not even safe at school and you can't go to a mall!!

I live in the next town over from the shooting: 10 miles away. It'sbeen absolutely devastating, as you can imagine. My kids are home safe and I practically mauled my kids as I walked in the door, this afternoon. My youngest 's school was on lockdown, which has left her traumatized because like the bits of misinformation that were released by the media, the kids were hearing only pieces. Not sure if I am making sense...