University Shootings

[A Forgotten Legend]

ha ha.
i have that all the time.  sometimes the event doesn't happen a whole year maybe even two years later. *remembers one from 2nd grade*

[sdm42393]

I heard about this on the Today show and I posted a blog about it on MySpacem (actually, it was a news article, but w/e), and I think this world is f&%$ing sickning.

 -Steve  

[Osmose]

Originally posted by Dragonium
But still, if there ever is a gun crime here, the person who did it is usually arrested right away. People here aren't used to guns being around so a gun crime is a pretty big deal.

I'm fairly sure if someone shoots someone else and we know who it is, we'll arrest them right away too.

Also, most Americans aren't used to guns either. You act as if you get a gun for graduating high school or something.

[Dragonium]

Originally posted by Osmose

Originally posted by Dragonium
But still, if there ever is a gun crime here, the person who did it is usually arrested right away. People here aren't used to guns being around so a gun crime is a pretty big deal.

I'm fairly sure if someone shoots someone else and we know who it is, we'll arrest them right away too.

Also, most Americans aren't used to guns either. You act as if you get a gun for graduating high school or something. [/B]

Yeah, but you're guns are legal (Providing you have a licence and stuff of course). Over here guns are a 100% no-no.

Also, if this situation is anything to go by, getting a gun for graduating high school is probably a good idea.

[drenrin2120]

Here's an interesting observation. Just the other day in my town 5 people were shot in a gang related shoot out, one person was killed, the other 4 were seriously injured. That affected me more than hearing about the 32 dead in virginia.

So yeah, there's some truth to the idea of local incidents affecting people more than incidents farther away, but that's not saying I wasn't affected at all by the VA incident. Just a personal observation.

[Ben]

Yeah... theres like, one Virginia tech per day getting killed in Iraq.

But the whole "war victims getting killed while begging for handouts" gets overlooked, because its "justified"

Maybe if everyone wasn't so apathetic, things like this could be avoided.

[drenrin2120]

There's violence all over the world, I think it's numbed our senses to the point where it doesn't affect us unless it's something that could potentially physically harm us. You know? So the farther away it is, the least concern it is to us.

Though I'm not saying that's how it is for everyone, just another observation/hypothesis. But if there's one thing that affects me that's far away, it's the war in Iraq. I can't stand the War in Iraq, it makes me sick because every goddamn day there's car bombs or some kid strapped with dynamite blowing himself up in a market place, soldiers shot and blown up, families torn up, civil war, the whole goddamn thing. And you always hear it on the news, there's always something about it on the news, every day.

And yeah, I know there's other situations going on throughout the world that are just as if not, more disturbing than the Iraq War, but that ones irks me bad.

[Ben]

 if its making you "so sick" then perhaps you should be protesting it, in an effective organized effort. Or join the army to make a difference.

The war on Iraq effects you because thats what the media wants you to be affected by. Spoon fed opinions.


But thats just my view. Dont take it to heart

[Dragonium]

The media does admittedly play a big part in everyone's thoughts. The things that we see on TV are just what the media want us to see, not the entire truth of what happens. It bothers me a little how we always see stories about people who are set up to be "the enemy" and are always bombing cars and killing innocent civilians, and yet in comparison there are very few stories about what our "heroic" soldiers get up to. Soldiers are martyred by the media. A soldier who has only just joined the army and has only just gone into action can be killed, and the media paint them as a war hero. It's happened before.

Everything is sugar-coated and screened so that people get these opinions into their heads that the people our soldiers are killing are the spawn of Satan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_prisoner_abuse

I mean, who remembers this? Everyone was so horrified when this got out because they were so shocked that our "hero" soldiers could get up to such a thing.

[Cosmos]

I remember that. Wasn't it the female who got in the most trouble? Sucks to be her. I didn't really find it surpising tho, interesting but not surpising.

[Ben]

In Wainwright I used to run  a tattoo shop. Wainwright has a military base wich is a training hub for north america, for US, Canadian, British, French, Scottish, Vietnamese/Gurkeh And sometimes austraillian soldiers. Its one of the biggest training facilities in the world.

Ive tattooed aloty of dudes that "just finished their training before heading to 9insert wartorn nation here0 and wanted a tattoo)

A tattooist is like a barber. I hear all kinds of stuff.
The young soldiers dont talk so much, but the old guys will tell you everything if you are friends with them.


'our' soldiers are not heroes. They follow orders, and the orders are some of the most vile, contemptuous stories Ive ever heard.  Listening to a guy talk about having to shoot children short range for simply approaching a soldier at "the wrong time' whilst kkeeping a calm, cold face, and expressing "I would have gone to the brig if I didnt."
Makes you rethink the media.

Anyways....yeah I was told some really eye opening stuff.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

There's some reports and video some people still need to read/watch.

Going back to the location thing; we are humans also; we are bound to care for things closer to us (physicly and emotionally) than further away. I do bet someone can care more for his/her dog that got shot that the shootout there was on a gas station across the city. We prioritize things.


On another different note, Thompson had  already put this one under blame of video games hours later after the shootings, but as media has it, they did not find any video game's on the shooter's room. And his roomate says that he never saw the shooter play a single video game.

[Revolution911]

I dont like Cho.  He's a crybaby and he brought everything on himself.  And **** the media who says "Oh look at all his writing its so dark blah blah blah."  Stephen King writes worse **** than this guy, but no one's sending him to some mental help hospital.

[Cosmos]

Stephen king is awsome... cujo.. *huggles* I don't like how they're saying this dude's shooting is connected to a movie.. that's stupid. I think saying it was because of movies/games/material items is fuckin retarded. We grow up the way we do because of the people around us.. this dude was probably lonely as hell.. and mabbe a little retarded. He prolly just snapped one day.. I really haven't been paying much attention to it, but from watching the unholy news, they've said he'd take pictures of the girls in his class without them knowing. They said his teacher kicked him out cause the other students stopped goin because they were scared of him.. and his roommates thought he was weird because he of the way he would stare at people.. Dude needed help, mental help.. the signs were there, but noone did anything.

[aboutasoandthis]

Originally Posted by Midnight  

Dude needed help, mental help.. the signs were there, but noone did anything.

They actually did do something. His English teacher especially tried to send him to the police, counseling, and to a psychiatrist.

I'm wondering how this kid got into college. I've read this guy's plays. It's not that they were violent, it was that they did not have a point.

In both there was a punk kid, without a personality, who was 16-17. There was a fat guy who tried to help the kid. The kid kills the fat guy, or provokes the guy to kill him back.

His plays had no themes, no characterization, no nothin. They were pieces of ****.

I'm wondering how this guy had a girlfriend...