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Breaking: Shooting at Virginia Tech University (pg. 15)
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| Masonious |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
And for the record, I'm not advocating "banning guns," just making them more difficult to obtain. |
I totally agree with this - it's way, WAYYY too easy to get a gun. |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Masonious
I totally agree with this - it's way, WAYYY too easy to get a gun. |
Wal-Mart is always just down the street.
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And this is of course one of those spots where we hit the greater social issue of our "consumption based" society and complicate things that much more. |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cloudburst
You think school shootings inspire more school shootings? Like a vicious circle. Like it has sort of become the "norm" when a disturbed individual crosses the line. |
I know some people discussed this after columbine. Those kids got so much press and it appeared that they succeeded in their own little mission. Which gave hope to copy-cats hoping to go down [bon jovi]in a blaaaaze of glory[/bon jovi]
so it could inspire some that believe the massive media coverage = success of the gunman. |
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| getfoul |
| quote: | Originally posted by squirrelly
wait, so he was looking for his girlfriend?
wtf did she do? |
GF was f-ing her professor. No joke. |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
[bon jovi]in a blaaaaze of glory[/bon jovi]
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That's the first music video I ever remember seeing. |
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| Fast Turtle |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
so it could inspire some that believe the massive media coverage = success of the gunman. |
Yeah, but, this has been part of history forever -- some dip wants to be famous and immortalized, so he causes an atrocity of some sort. |
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| Masonious |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fast Turtle
Yeah, but, this has been part of history forever -- some dip wants to be famous and immortalized, so he causes an atrocity of some sort. |
It friggin' works. |
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| Orbax |
| Its like how my dad used to want to climb up everest with dynamite and blow the top off after he summited so hed be the last person to summit everest when it was the tallest it ever was AND be the guy who blew the top off of everest |
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| getfoul |
This was from a few hours back...
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Originally Posted by SleeperVolvo
Hey everyone, yeah i was walking to class that was in the building right next to the one that got shot up. They made us go into a building and wait. About 3 hours later we where escorted back to the dorms by SWAT. Im just praying for the familys of the victims and i really hope my friends are all safe. The news is lieing to you, my friends and i were listening to a police scanner. They Killed two gun men, one is still on the lose, and they have one in custody. There are actualy 26 deaths (friends mom is apart of the emergency team). Its been crazy. They went and killed a girl at the dorm thats about 100 feet from mine. They then waited for two hours and proceeded across campus and shot up the engingering building. all the police where across campus. Im hoping i personaly dont know any of the victims.. guys say prayers for the familys, they are going to be getting calls that will forever change their lives. |
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Originally Posted by SleeperVolvo
guys what the news will not tell you, there where 4 gun men, the police killed 2 of them, one has been caught, and the other is on the lose. What you will also not get on the news, is that there was a bomb found in Burrus hall, the main academic building. I am starting to feel.. god **** i dont know, this has been my home away from home for 9 months now and ijust cant put into words, **** ****. :'( |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orbax
Its like how my dad used to want to climb up everest with dynamite and blow the top off after he summited so hed be the last person to summit everest when it was the tallest it ever was AND be the guy who blew the top off of everest |
:wtf: |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orbax
Its like how my dad used to want to climb up everest with dynamite and blow the top off after he summited so hed be the last person to summit everest when it was the tallest it ever was AND be the guy who blew the top off of everest |
I <3 your dad. |
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| hadi burpee |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
I find it very very very hard to blame, video games, 'easy access' to guns, being american, violent movies, decline of religion, abortion, fast food, and whatever else you can think of for causing these type of things. if in fact it does play a role in school shootings we would be seeing a hell of a lot more stories like this. there are millions of people that are american who play video games, watch every violent movie, have 'easy access' to guns, dont go to church and all that other jazz.
what we are looking at are weak correlations of behavior. but like arbiter said, its the perfect time to jump in with your agenda, whatever that maybe. |
i think it is also ridiculous to blame it on any of those things you listed for many reasons, but one strong one, at least i think is all these so called "influences" exist in many other countries too. , they have even more violent movies outside of the USA.
either way, ed up way to start the week and end a school year. i was pretty shocking to read about it from here, because I was just checking the news in the morning and im like "holy , 1 person killed, and they have the gunman" so im like cool its done, then i come back from lunch to see 32 people dead, wtf. |
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