another school shooting

this may end up locked ( or deleted ) 'cause it's sure to turn political sooner or later ... but there's been another school shooting ... for the life of me I can't understand

http://gma.yahoo.com/breaking-conn-school-district-locked-down-shooting-report-151955384--abc-news-topstories.html

More than two dozen people, mostly elementary school children, were shot and killed at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school this morning, federal and state sources tell ABC News. The massacre involved two gunmen and prompted the town of Newtown to lock down all of its schools and draw SWAT teams to the school, authorities said today. One shooter is dead and a manhunt is on for a second gunman. Police are searching cars. One shooter was described as a 24-year-old armed with four weapons and wearing a bullet vest, sources told ABC News. It's unclear how many people have been shot, but 25 people, mostly children are dead, multiple federal and state sources tell ABC News. That number could rise, officials said. President Obama was briefed on the shooting by FBI Director Bob Mueller. It is the worst shooting in a U.S. elementary school in recent memory and exceeds the carnage at 1999 Coumbine High School shooting in which 13 died and 24 were injured. The Newtown shooting comes just three days after masked gunman Jacob Roberts opened fire in a busy Oregon, mall killing two before turning the gun on himself. Today's shooting occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, which includes 450 students in grades from kindergarten through fourth grade. The town is located about 12 miles east of Danbury.

I literaly feel sick to my stomach. This is really hard to handle with my two children sitting in an elementary school right now.

Now they're saying only one shooter. About the only way to make it more horrible is the idea of two people planning such a thing. What could such a person possibly want? Attention?

I don't understand the motivation and meticulous planning and at no point in time stopping and thinking, "this is crazy!"

The rest of the world looks at these shootings and thinks we are crazy.

It's not just happening here. In the other thread they have a link to 20+ stabbings at a Chinese school.

It's also been reported that his mom was a kindergarten teacher at the school and he started in her classroom. Sounds like she must have taken his Nintendo away and he got mad.

It's one thing to get mad and plan weird and elaborate things in your head, it's another to act out on them.

Other concurrent thread: http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/just-shoot-yourself/58129/page1/