Topic: 2 students are dead, 13 more are injured in school shooting.
MIB
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2 people died and 13 more were injured in a high school shooting in California earlier today. The suspect has been captured. He is a 16 year old student who goes to the very school where the shooting took place. You can get more info on Fox news and/or MSNBC.
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Did you people get together while I was asleep and plan out how best to make my day difficult? And I've got to work, too. And record Babylon 5. It's a mess, I tell you.
(Yes, this thread will probably need to be moved later on. Not just yet, though. We shall see.)
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Perfect some little shit has to go out a blow a bunch of holes in his classmates on my birthday. I'm going to go down there and kick his ass myself. The only thing I wanted to have happen today was me getting messed up with a bottle of irish whiskey. Stupid little moron.
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Heard about this on the radio. The bastard was smiling as he pumped lead into kids' bodies.
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I just got finished playing Unreal Tournament and feel like doin' it in real life now!!
Well no, of course not. Why? Because I have common sense to know UT is only game. I love playing UT, I love blowing people to bits with the rocket launcher. But that doesn't mean I'd do it in real life.
But I can't help but think parents are going to blame games for this. I guess it's easier for them to blame games, TV, or movies than to think their kid was messed up and mentally unstable to begin with.
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It's not that the games are to blame per se, in that the game says, "hey, go take a shotgun to school and kill people!" but that "entertainment" these days desensitizes kids to death and violence.
I'm not saying these are my beliefs, just that that is one argument (and the one most plausable, honestly)
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I saw it the minute I started my browser. The news service of my start-page broke it to me. This is terrible. A boy in Stockholm was shot dead in the school restroom only two months ago, exactly like in the end of "American History X". This is so bad.
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Wow. A gun thread? What is the nature of this thread? I do not recall any of these in recent memory, and I seem to recall them all ending in peaceful, mutual agreement on a final solution.
Not the Holocaust, mind you.
This came as a shock to some people? If it did, one must ask the ultimate question, is your current place of residence a acutely thin, round layer of material filled with a hollow inside?
Speaking of desensitization of violence, I for one can appreciate the good action movie, preferably one with Arab terrorists. In any event, people, such as myself are desensitized to this real world violence much more so than any fictionalized, fantasized or sensationalized media violentia. So, when I feel the need to click on the little 'e' with a circle around it (which is very pretty, I might add) and Reuters attempts to alarm me by showing big headlines such as '2 dead in High School shooting', there's not much more to do than see if any nude celebrity sites have updated.
This is not demoting this tragedy in any way. It's bad. We all know that. The thing is that it happens so often it's like mosquito bites.
You gotta watch where you go so you don't get bitten.
There is nothing more you can do.
PS - I can't recall the last time I felt scared going to School. This isn't to say there will never, or there isn't a chance this can't happen here. It's just - nice, I suppose, to be comfortable in your surroundings.
PPS - There was some American Senator-ma-thingy on the TV, is it? About an hour ago. I think he was a Republican, but I'm not sure. He was hawking some Vacuum cleaner of Gun Control lobby/proposal/bill/little guy who dances and sings on the steps from that TV show from the 80's, which, as we all know has about as much chance of doing anything as I do bedding Nikki Taylor, but he mentioned something that I though was interesting, right before I turned it to VIP. He said something along the lines of 'For all the good that supporters of the First Ammendment say about how guns provide protection, it sure helped those kids at school'.
Now, wether he means that guns are bad, or that we should equip children with handguns (It is not my place to decide which is the correct answer, I'm foreign.), I do not know. I do know the USP is quite light, however. And perhaps a six-year-old may be able to carry it. Time will tell of course.
And our hindsight will be 10/200 as it always seems to be.
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'For all the good that supporters of the First [sic] Ammendment say about how guns provide protection, it sure helped those kids at school'
Ironically, this is true, from what I hear. The shooting was stopped by an off-duty policeman. A man carrying a gun. Same in Pearl, Mississippi. Someone on staff actually ran out to his car to get his gun (He had parked 100 yards away from the school, as required by law when you're carrying a gun in your vehicle. Too bad; more lives might have been saved had he been able to park closer.), came back in, and held the kid while he was reloading until the police came.
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Yes, because we all know that that kid BRAGGING about what he was going to do the WEEK before couldn't have prevented it.
HELLO? "I'm going to take a gun to school on Monday and shoot people." Why the fuck don't people take this seriously?
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If ever one could be said of finding the proverbial silver lining in an overcast world, Omega could be. And the hand that is not this one but is the other, said one could also be the chief candidate for the election to the post of the person who sees things only how, and if they appropriate the situation at hand.
Certainly that one sentence, which wasn't the bulk of my post, nor was it even anything but a passing reference got the most attention.
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