Elementary school shooting gun control pissing contest

[merithyn]

Which isn't something Lanza would have seen. Maybe he kept shooting because he wasn't aware of how much damage he had already done. Or maybe he just couldn't stop himself once he started.

[derspiess]

Meri, it's not something I really want to think about but having read battlefield reports of 5.56 wounds I'm pretty sure he'd see the effects.

[dps]

Is there any chance we could stop this conversation?  I really don't need any more mental images of the effect multiple high-powered rifle peculiarly hideous rounds would have on first graders. 

Given that this is Languish, and you're let people know that it's bothering you, I'd say very little chance now.  Heck, now it'll probably come up in every thread you post in for a while.

[dps]

Meri, it's not something I really want to think about but having read battlefield reports of 5.56 wounds I'm pretty sure he'd see the effects.

They'd be physically visible, but I wonder if he was really actually seeing anything by that point.

[merithyn]

Meri, it's not something I really want to think about but having read battlefield reports of 5.56 wounds I'm pretty sure he'd see the effects.

I didn't know. I can't think of any other reason he would keep shooting. It just doesn't make sense. None of it does.

[garbon]

Is there any chance we could stop this conversation?  I really don't need any more mental images of the effect multiple high-powered rifle peculiarly hideous rounds would have on first graders. 

Maybe if you'd kept your piehole shut when you were asked.

[garbon]

Meri, it's not something I really want to think about but having read battlefield reports of 5.56 wounds I'm pretty sure he'd see the effects.

I didn't know. I can't think of any other reason he would keep shooting. It just doesn't make sense. None of it does.

I'm not sure it ever will.

[Neil]

Meri, it's not something I really want to think about but having read battlefield reports of 5.56 wounds I'm pretty sure he'd see the effects.

I didn't know. I can't think of any other reason he would keep shooting. It just doesn't make sense. None of it does.

He's shooting a gun at a person.  You know full well what it's going to do.  If he was going to be shocked by watching viscera burst from small bodies, he wouldn't be shooting them in the first place.

It doesn't make sense to you because shooting little children doesn't make sense to you.

[CountDeMoney]

Meri, you're overthinking things again.

[merithyn]

Meri, you're overthinking things again.

I know. Sorry.

[MadImmortalMan]

Some of us deal with adversity by intellectually analyzing the hell out of it. It's just as reflexive as the response to call for control. 

[merithyn]

It's not a good thing to do sometimes, though.

[Neil]

Depends on the emotional context.

[DGuller]

It's not a good thing to do sometimes, though.

Better than the alternative.  If there is a car accident at a dangerous intersection, I would feel more comfortable if the cops were callously investigating the causes so soon after the tragedy, rather than breaking open their boxes of tissues and sobbing into them.

[CountDeMoney]

If there is a car accident at a dangerous intersection, I would feel more comfortable if the cops were callously investigating the causes so soon after the tragedy, rather than breaking open their boxes of tissues and sobbing into them.

The jokes are priceless sometimes.

And don't think the cops are the only ones, either.  Seen plenty of trauma surgeons busting on somebody right there on the table. 
Like the guy who came in off a chopper from a motorcycle accident with both his feet in plastic bags getting X-rayed on the bed next to him.  Reading off his vitals, when they got to height, doc was "well, whatever it is, subtract two feet".  I LOL'd.