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So, what's the point of this exactly? No-one posts stuff when US kids stab their teachers. So why this?
Is it a case of "Look! They claim to be better than us, but they're just as bad"? Is it that deep-rooted sense of American insecurity that makes you such a loud and overcompensating country? Or is it just an attempt to make yourselves look better by showing that others are worse? Because on that level, this amounts to one kid getting told off for stealing pens, and then trying to distract attention by saying "But mummmy, Billy Bunsen stole some pens and a magazine last week."
The kid got 6 years in youth detention. As far as I can see, he's been appropriatly puncihed for a wicked crime. What else is there to say? (apart from that subject heading really should read "Mum", not "Ma".)
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Well, one interpretation could be that firearms are not the source of all evil, as some believe. Things like this happen either way. Except that, in this country, the teacher could have had a gun in her purse, and made the kid back down.
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...Because we all know that teachers pack heat. Who can get through a lesson on Quadratic Functions without pumping off a round or two from your Benelli 12-AM Automatic Breaching Shotgun.
The sad thing is the fact that the response was 'oh maybe if she was loaded...' Disgusting.
Oh fuck, I don't give a shit about most things anymore.
Kirk Hammett fucking rules.
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The point was that she could have been, UM. Why is that such a sad response? If her right to self defense had not been removed, she might not have to be under medical care right now. Nor would the child be spending nearly as much time in prison, likely. Heck, if he'd thought she had a chance of defending herself, he probably wouldn't have tried it to begin with.
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And then have to hear other zealots drone on about a "crazed teacher" popping a student? No thanks...
On a related note, work on my low-orbital smack-programmable launcher is proceeding at a high clip.
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Omega: Did you read the thing? It said the kid stole a knife from the teacher's kitchen. Suggesting they were in the teacher's house. She could have had any number of defenses. Hell, she could have gone i the kitchen and gotten another knife. In this case, she had her eyes closed, expecting a present, when the kid started stabbing her. If she couldn't do anything, she couldn't do anything. Having had a gun somewhere wouldn't have changed jack shit.
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"If her right to self defense had not been removed, , she might not have to be under medical care right now. Nor would the child be spending nearly as much time in prison, likely"
So your saying that if the kid tried to stab her and failed, then it doesn't matter as much, and he should have gotten a more lenient sentence? It doesn't matter that his intention was to stab her, it just matters that he succeeded?
Why does that make no sense?
"Except that, in this country, the teacher could have had a gun in her purse, and made the kid back down."
Thank god then that no-one ever gets attacked in the US then.
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Oh, yeah, I missed the quote about the gun in the purse... Explain to me how many piano teachers probably sit in their houses giving lessons, while holding their purse w/ their gun in it...?
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quote:Oh, yeah, I missed the quote about the gun in the purse... Explain to me how many piano teachers probably sit in their houses giving lessons, while holding their purse w/ their gun in it...?
*raises hand while cocking gun*
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I think its just sad when a kid of any nation pulls a knife on someone. And you're wrong, Omega ... in THIS country, the kid wouldn't have pulled a knife, he'd've pulled a gun and killed her (and seeing how it was her knife he used on her, he'd probably steal her own gun).
This is why gun locks are such a good idea.
Myself, I prefer to scare the living daylights out of my people with my Highlander-replica katana ... =)
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Over here recently there has been a rash of incidents at CHILDREN'S games ... but not by the little-leaguers ... but by their folks ...
Have you guys heard of this? A parent whose kid is losing have ATTACKED and KILLED the parents of the kid who is beating their own child. I think the most notable case was at a baseball game a few months back -- ? Some dude's kid got struck out, so he killed the pitcher's dad? I'm not sure, it was something STUPID like that.
But this is the society we live in. If you cut someone off on the road, you could be killed. If your kid strikes out some other guy's kid, you could be killed. If you try and get your kid to go to music lessons, he'll kill his music teacher.
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh.
Back to sleep for me. Can never get enough of it. And if someone tries to kill me b/c my cat looks at them funny through the window, I'll slice 'em and dice 'em with this sword ...
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I know it's splitting hairs, but the kid wasn't actually trying to kill her. He just wanted to hurt her so that his parents would let him drop one of his instruments, so that he'd have time for football.
He was already playing about 9 million instruments. I detect a wee bit of pressure coming from mummy and daddy.
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