University Shootings

[WarxePB]

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[WarxePB]

On a more serious note, it's quite sad that school shootings in America get more attention than religious massacres in the Middle East.

[Dragonium]

Having to use other things to kill each other makes people more ingenious and imaginative.

Need I remind you of the "Manhunt" incident, where one guy killed another with a cricket bat and a claw hammer?

That's real imagination.

That's British thinkin'.

[Daetyrnis]

Originally posted by Warxe_PhoenixBlade
On a more serious note, it's quite sad that school shootings in America get more attention than religious massacres in the Middle East.

Religion has always resulted in extremists either killing others or telling other people to kill others.  It's nothing new.

Places of learning, however, have not always resulted in death.

However, you and I live in Canada so we here more about American news compared to the news of the Middle East.  In all likelyhood over there, they haven't even heard of the shooting in Virginia.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Originally posted by Daetyrnis

Originally posted by Warxe_PhoenixBlade
On a more serious note, it's quite sad that school shootings in America get more attention than religious massacres in the Middle East.

Religion has always resulted in extremists either killing others or telling other people to kill others.  It's nothing new.

Places of learning, however, have not always resulted in death.

However, you and I live in Canada so we here more about American news compared to the news of the Middle East.  In all likelyhood over there, they haven't even heard of the shooting in Virginia.[/B]

Exactly.

Though that doesn't mean that one is of less magnitude than the other, things that happen closer to you will mostly be more emphisized than things that happen somewhere far away.

[Grandy]

I'm blaming the guns on this. That's all I have to say.

[SaiKar]

Originally posted by Warxe_PhoenixBlade
On a more serious note, it's quite sad that school shootings in America get more attention than religious massacres in the Middle East.

First, I think this is a little distasteful. A tragety is a tragety. If you're going to be sad about something, be sad they're happening at all, not that more people are talking about one than another.

That said, college incidents with double-digit deathtools are quite rare. In post-9/11 America, I can see the obvious thing to do being adding more security everywhere and streading the corners of the constitution a little more. THAT is what has me upset about this: those unfortunate victims are not only dead, but their deaths will probably change this country, and not for the better. Sigh.

[Oi]

America is a huge big crazy. That's all we all. A big, sick crazy. I think we are the most hated Country in the world right now. But I don't care. My life is fine the way it is. And not just America has these things. I heard China has a lot of them. Japan has a few too. America isn't bad, people. Some people are bad in America. Our president is acting stupid as heck. I could say we are a big kill. No I'm not anti-America. I actually love America, its just some people who are bad.

Edit: The shootings were awful, too. My math teacher started crying because her son was wounded. I felt bad for her, even though I don't like her.

[Meiscool-2]

Originally posted by Warxe_PhoenixBlade
On a more serious note, it's quite sad that school shootings in America get more attention than religious massacres in the Middle East.

Stupidest post of the month.

Bravo.

[Razor]

I can understand where Warxe is coming from; why is loss of life more important when it's local?
Aforementioned religious killings surely result in more deaths of innocent people and children than the 32 that were lost in Virginia.

Not that I'm trivialising the Uni thing as "just another 32".

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Threats closed down some Universities across the US, just one day after the Masacre of Virgina Tech

Ah the teenage mind.

[Omega Weapon]

On a more serious note, it's quite sad that school shootings in America get more attention than religious massacres in the Middle East.

Unfortunately, that's the way the world turns. They get more attention because Americans care more about Americans than Middle Easterners. There's nothing shocking or especially malicious about it. It's about ratings, and it's completely understandable.

Only if someone where to say "OMG, these DEATHS are so horrible, things need to *******, would there be room for criticism. It's just a tragedy and nothing more.

Originally posted by Meiscool

Originally posted by Warxe_PhoenixBlade
On a more serious note, it's quite sad that school shootings in America get more attention than religious massacres in the Middle East.

Stupidest post of the month.

Bravo. [/B]

Stupidiest response of the month.

Bravo.

[ZeroKirbyX]

Originally posted by Omega Weapon

On a more serious note, it's quite sad that school shootings in America get more attention than religious massacres in the Middle East.

Unfortunately, that's the way the world turns. They get more attention because Americans care more about Americans than Middle Easterners. There's nothing shocking or especially malicious about it. It's about ratings, and it's completely understandable.

Only if someone where to say "OMG, these DEATHS are so horrible, things need to *******, would there be room for criticism. It's just a tragedy and nothing more.

Originally posted by Meiscool

Originally posted by Warxe_PhoenixBlade
On a more serious note, it's quite sad that school shootings in America get more attention than religious massacres in the Middle East.

Stupidest post of the month.

Bravo. [/B]

Stupidiest response of the month.

Bravo. [/B]

Stupidiest response of the month.

Bravo.

...What, all the cool kids were doin it.

[Cosmos]

Originally posted by Moosetroop11
Mid, you can't dispute the fact that people are more likely to think "I want to end life in a bang, screw this world" take their gun which was lying in a drawer and shoot people, than go "I want to end life in a bang, screw this world" find out how to illegally obtain guns and ammo, go through the long, difficult and risky process of getting the gun, and then still act on emotional impulse. There's still shooting here, yes, but we're talking about saving a few lives. Anything that makes it more difficult to kill innocent people has got to be a good thing.

Course ya can't.. but I wasn't exactly talking about emo teens with the whole smuggling thing. I'm just being a wittle opened minded  :p

We kinda went over something like this in one of my classes a few months back, on how the media shows us what they or the government wants us to see. It's like we're so consumed with what's going on here in the states that we don't notice other countries. Because if we did there would be riots and some whole other crap.

The teacher showed us this video called "Control room" *ya'll should check it out when ya have a chance* and a lot of the students were shocked too see how bad things really were. They didn't know about children being blown up, or any of that crap. And these are the kind of people who watch the news faithfully.

But honestly.. I don't see how one tragedy is different from another.. To me a death is a death, whether it be one or 100..

[Grandy]

I'm less bored today so I feel like adding stuff:

Originally posted by Daetyrnis

Originally posted by Warxe_PhoenixBlade
On a more serious note, it's quite sad that school shootings in America get more attention than religious massacres in the Middle East.

Religion has always resulted in extremists either killing others or telling other people to kill others.  It's nothing new.

Places of learning, however, have not always resulted in death.[/B]

 You have obviously never been to Brasil. Shooting in schools is something we hear almost daily over here. (Not in my school, mind you, but a really ****ing big number of schools.) It's so usual nobody even cares anymore, or at least not as much as they should.

 As for religion, yeah, right, it has been there for long, okay. But, surprise and shick, it being more common doesn't make it any better. "Extremists are killing each other again? Whatever, we seen this before. It's not like it's something important anymore, just a few dozens of people."

 I know you probally didn't mean it, but that's what I understood. Frankly, in majority, americans remind me of Weird Al's 'Why does this Always Happen to Me':
 

  I was watching my TV one night when they broke in with a special report
About some devistating earthquake in Peru
There were thirty thousand crushed to death, even more were buried alive
On the Richter scale it measured 8.2

And I said, "God, please answer me one question?"
"Why'd they have to interrupt 'The Simpsons' just for this?"
What a drag, 'cause I was taping it and everything
And now I'll have to wait for the rerun to see the part of the show I missed

 There are exceptions, of course, but still...