I never heard anyone eating with a gun before ?

@ sd, Yep "common sense in controlling the accessibility of guns is not an absurd idea."

@ BD, Yep "it's NOT the guns."

It could be the "pills" (which don't pop themselves into the mouth!), drugs, mental illness etc., OR whatever it is that causes ignorant people to abuse drugs and/or the privilage of using a weapon,

Because of the ignorance of others,

for the sake of our safety there needs to be "control".

Accessibility of Drugs are controlled, why not guns?

It is very sad when something like this happens. My prayers go out to the family.

I have to say it's NOT the guns. Its the Pills ! I dont expect to see the media go after the drug companies because of all the money they take in from advertising. Im sure if you watch TV you have seen the ads.

Below is some information everyone should be aware of as our Constitutional Rights come under attack again. The founding fathers put the second amendment there for a very good reason. It also is right near the top of the list.

Prominent gun manufacturer John Noveske was killed in a car crash on January 4, 2013. Just days before he died in the car wreck, Noveske posted a lengthy discussion on his Facebook page listing over 40 incidents where primarily young people committed mass murder and/or suicide while on psychiatric medications.

Here is Noveske’s last Facebook post:

“Eric Harris age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 (Columbine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado), killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves. Klebold’s medical records have never been made available to the public.

Jeff Weise, age 16, had been prescribed 60 mg/day of Prozac (three times the average starting dose for adults!) when he shot his grandfather, his grandfather’s girlfriend and many fellow students at Red Lake, Minnesota. He then shot himself. 10 dead, 12 wounded.

Cory Baadsgaard, age 16, Wahluke (Washington state) High School, was on Paxil (which caused him to have hallucinations) when he took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates hostage. He has no memory of the event.

Chris Fetters, age 13, killed his favorite aunt while taking Prozac.

Christopher Pittman, age 12, murdered both his grandparents while taking Zoloft.

Mathew Miller, age 13, hung himself in his bedroom closet after taking Zoloft for 6 days.

Kip Kinkel, age 15, (on Prozac and Ritalin) shot his parents while they slept then went to school and opened fire killing 2 classmates and injuring 22 shortly after beginning Prozac treatment.

Luke Woodham, age 16 (Prozac) killed his mother and then killed two students, wounding six others.

A boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) in 1998 had a Zoloft-induced seizure that caused an armed stand off at his school.

Michael Carneal (Ritalin), age 14, opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting in West Paducah, Kentucky. Three teenagers were killed, five others were wounded..

A young man in Huntsville, Alabama (Ritalin) went psychotic chopping up his parents with an ax and also killing one sibling and almost murdering another.

Andrew Golden, age 11, (Ritalin) and Mitchell Johnson, aged 14, (Ritalin) shot 15 people, killing four students, one teacher, and wounding 10 others.

TJ Solomon, age 15, (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers, Georgia opened fire on and wounded six of his class mates.

Rod Mathews, age 14, (Ritalin) beat a classmate to death with a bat.

James Wilson, age 19, (various psychiatric drugs) from Breenwood, South Carolina, took a .22 caliber revolver into an elementary school killing two young girls, and wounding seven other children and two teachers.

Elizabeth Bush, age 13, (Paxil) was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania

Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) – school shooting in El Cajon, California

Jarred Viktor, age 15, (Paxil), after five days on Paxil he stabbed his grandmother 61 times.

Chris Shanahan, age 15 (Paxil) in Rigby, ID who out of the blue killed a woman.

Jeff Franklin (Prozac and Ritalin), Huntsville, AL, killed his parents as they came home from work using a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife and mechanic’s file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister.

Neal Furrow (Prozac) in LA Jewish school shooting reported to have been court-ordered to be on Prozac along with several other medications.

Kevin Rider, age 14, was withdrawing from Prozac when he died from a gunshot wound to his head. Initially it was ruled a suicide, but two years later, the investigation into his death was opened as a possible homicide. The prime suspect, also age 14, had been taking Zoloft and other SSRI antidepressants.

Alex Kim, age 13, hung himself shortly after his Lexapro prescription had been doubled.

Diane Routhier was prescribed Welbutrin for gallstone problems. Six days later, after suffering many adverse effects of the drug, she shot herself.

Billy Willkomm, an accomplished wrestler and a University of Florida student, was prescribed Prozac at the age of 17. His family found him dead of suicide – hanging from a tall ladder at the family’s Gulf Shore Boulevard home in July 2002.

Kara Jaye Anne Fuller-Otter, age 12, was on Paxil when she hung herself from a hook in her closet. Kara’s parents said “…. the **** doctor wouldn’t take her off it and I asked him to when we went in on the second visit. I told him I thought she was having some sort of reaction to Paxil…”)

Gareth Christian, Vancouver, age 18, was on Paxil when he committed suicide in 2002,

(Gareth’s father could not accept his son’s death and killed himself.)

Julie Woodward, age 17, was on Zoloft when she hung herself in her family’s detached garage.

Matthew Miller was 13 when he saw a psychiatrist because he was having difficulty at school. The psychiatrist gave him samples of Zoloft. Seven days later his mother found him dead, hanging by a belt from a laundry hook in his closet.

Kurt Danysh, age 18, and on Prozac, killed his father with a shotgun. He is now behind prison bars, and writes letters, trying to warn the world that SSRI drugs can kill.

Woody ____, age 37, committed suicide while in his 5th week of taking Zoloft. Shortly before his death his physician suggested doubling the dose of the drug. He had seen his physician only for insomnia. He had never been depressed, nor did he have any history of any mental illness symptoms.

A boy from Houston, age 10, shot and killed his father after his Prozac dosage was increased.

Hammad Memon, age 15, shot and killed a fellow middle school student. He had been diagnosed with ADHD and depression and was taking Zoloft and “other drugs for the conditions.”

Matti Saari, a 22-year-old culinary student, shot and killed 9 students and a teacher, and wounded another student, before killing himself. Saari was taking an SSRI and a benzodiazapine.

Steven Kazmierczak, age 27, shot and killed five people and wounded 21 others before killing himself in a Northern Illinois University auditorium. According to his girlfriend, he had recently been taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology results showed that he still had trace amounts of Xanax in his system.

Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen, age 18, had been taking antidepressants before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School – then he committed suicide.

Asa Coon from Cleveland, age 14, shot and wounded four before taking his own life. Court records show Coon was on Trazodone.

Jon Romano, age 16, on medication for depression, fired a shotgun at a teacher in his New York high school.

Missing from list… 3 of 4 known to have taken these same meds….

What drugs was Jared Lee Loughner on, age 21…… killed 6 people and injuring 14 others in Tuscon, Az

What drugs was James Eagan Holmes on, age 24….. killed 12 people and injuring 59 others in Aurora Colorado

What drugs was Jacob Tyler Roberts on, age 22, killed 2 injured 1, Clackamas Or

What drugs was Adam Peter Lanza on, age 20, Killed 26 and wounded 2 in Newtown Ct

Roberts is the only one that I haven’t heard about being on drugs of some kind.”

I love the argument that forks and knives are weapons too. You guys are great! Last time I checked a firearms sole purpose is to shoot bullets at high velocity to kill or severely injury a animal or human. A little bit of common sense in controlling the accessibility of guns is not an absurd idea.

First my condolences to the families of those who lost their lives to this tragedy.

Now, forks and knives don't act on their own, ignorant people can abuse them to do harm. There are laws against using a "weapon", of any kind to do harm!

Cars don't drive drunk themselves, ignorant people abuse the privilage of using the car. That's why there are strict laws against using a vehicle in a harmful way. In fact there are laws against using certian kinds of vehicles on the road because of the danger involved. (and because of the ignorant people who abuse the privilage to use them!)

So, why should their not be stricter laws against certian kinds of firearms because of the danger and harm they cause, and...because of the ignorant people who abuse the privilage of using them?

This has nothing to do with "taking away your right to prevent tyranny" or if "people are in fear of their government; or government is in fear of its people". If, by the slim chance, there is ever a need to excercize the right to prevent tyranny there will always be plenty of people and weapons to do so.

It's worse when a society has to be in fear of it's own people!!

For most, common sense says there needs to be a balance and an intellegent understanding of what firearms are really necessary for a free, civilized, responsible society to function.

Most people believe an AK47, UZI-SMG or rocket launcher do not belong in the possession of the gun owner/enthusiast, no matter how experienced and "responsible" one is. Would you use a flamethrower to light your fireplace or grill!? Like it or not these weapons were created for use in war to kill mass amounts of people. If a person fears the government to the extent that they truely believe they will need this protection some day, then it's time for them to consider moving to a different country, otherwise the fear is what is going to kill you.

The fearmongers would have you believe, like they have for many years, that the government wants to remove the right to bear arms. And as usual they are still wrong.

Forks don't make people fat.

Knives don't jump up off the table and stab people.

Car don't drive themselves drunk.

Guns don't shoot people all by themselves.

So before everyone wants more gun control and believes what the elite in power feed to you know that the challenge to gun control isn't about taking away your right to hunt or defend your person, it's about taking away your right to prevent tyranny. When people are in fear of their government you have tyranny. When government is in fear of its people you have liberty.

Laws didn't kill these precious children. Laws didn't prevent their deaths either. The only cause of these children's deaths was a person named Adam Lanza. Here are the death stats for 2011, just so you'll be in the know. Death by firearm, other than suicide, didn't even make the top fifteen. We'd be better off banning forks!

(this table is on Page 4)

1 Diseases of heart - 596,339

2 Malignant neoplasms - 575,313

3 Chronic lower respiratory diseases -143,382

4 Cerebrovascular diseases - 128,931

5 Accidents (unintentional injuries) - 122,777

6 Alzheimer’s disease - 84,691

7 Diabetes mellitus - 73,282

8 Influenza and pneumonia - 53,667

9 Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis - 45,731

10 Intentional self-harm (suicide) - 38,285

11 Septicemia - 35,539

12 Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis - 33,539

13 Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease - 27,477

14 Parkinson’s disease - 23,107

15 Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids - 18,090

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_06.pdf

Just thought I'd pass on some facts.

PS...Kudatz, you're right. Highly unconscionable of the Beacon to parlay that information. Dunces.

Way to go Beacon! You people are as ignorant as the day is long. Why must you post that the schools have no deputies? You people have reached a new level of Stupid!