PHiL Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 Just thought I would open this for people to give there thoughts about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogieman Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 What is it about this week in April. Jeez. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunnerX Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 I just find it quite sad people can just do this mercilessly. However, I'm sure it will be somehow linked to video games again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 I just find it quite sad people can just do this mercilessly. However, I'm sure it will be somehow linked to video games again. and cut to: http://kotaku.com/gaming/virginia-tech/breaking-idiot-thompson-blames-va-shooting-on-games-252702.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Zot Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 I can't believe one shooter did all that damage. Holy cow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan_E Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 32. Terrible, terrible... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dienekes96 Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 What irks me to no end is that today is the last day I won't know the gunman's name. In the end, he'll get the same notoriety as the Columbine kids. Just bury his ass at the dump, and let's talk about all of the innocent lives he ended. I wish we'd (the public) never know his name. I'm tired of media running stories on the killer for weeks. I know it's lurid and it sells, but it seems to heighten the crime. I think, in a subtle way, it feeds this mentality. Just my guy reaction. It's heartbreaking, and I hope the authorities can determine how he committed that much damage. It's insane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHiL Posted April 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 Just saw a girl on CNN.. Talking about the Gunmen..An Asian Kid.. Wearing a Black Looking Vest and Handgun.. He poked his head in her classroom twice.. 3rd time opened fire in the room.. Left then Came back and shot again.. People ran to the door when he left and he started shooting threw the door.. So she pretended she was dead.. Her and 3 others were the only ones to survive outta 20 or so people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Posted April 17, 2007 Report Share Posted April 17, 2007 Notice how Fox News is the only major news outlet to give Jackass the time of day? Those 15 minutes are almost up. Fingers crossed that the asshole gets disbarred -- hope he enjoys dropping starchy foods into boiling vats of beef-flavored, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Zot Posted April 17, 2007 Report Share Posted April 17, 2007 Jackass? Whaa? It's easy to fly to the extremes on this one: more gun control, less gun control, whatever to find blame. I think though that sometimes bad shit goes down and when it happens in America it tends to go down heavy. This is just horrible, I feel very badly for all the students and all their families at VT, not just the ones that were direct victims. This is just bad all around, ugh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoisonJam Posted April 17, 2007 Report Share Posted April 17, 2007 You know, purely a personal (and therefore selfish) observation, but I have actually made a conscious effort NOT to follow this story too closely. Not because I am making some grandiose statement against the tendency of American media to sensationalize these kinds of tragedies to a ridiculous degree (although I believe that), but because quite candidly I don't think I can handle the psychic baggage anymore. Ever since I had children I have found it increasingly difficult to read about this kinds of stories, whether it's the Amish schoolhouse tragedy, girls being tied up and raped in school, kids being found shot in the head and then left to burn in a torched house, etc. Those kinds of stories affect me profoundly these days, and I end up walking around horrified and saddened for weeks afterwards. And for what? It is horrible enough that I know that some monumentally psychotic asshole shot a bunch of kids at VT yesterday; do I need to read their terrified text messages, or see a detailed map and timeline of the incident (thanks, MSNBC)? What good does that do me, other than to further sadden and depress me? My thoughts and deepest sympathies go out to those families whose lives have been shattered yesterday by a disgruntled and disgusting shit of a human being. But please, Fox News et al, don't spend weeks exploiting this tragedy just because you need something else to talk about now that the Anna Nicole and Imus stories are fading. (...okay, maybe I am making a grandiose statement after all...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starhawk Posted April 17, 2007 Report Share Posted April 17, 2007 Thanks, Dave, very well said. I was in the gym today where they had CNN on and I realized how I really didnt want to ruin my day thinking about it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Zot Posted April 17, 2007 Report Share Posted April 17, 2007 Yeah, I know what you guys are saying. I wouldn't mind the extensive coverage if there was some sort of meaningful effort to open a dialogue and actually get to the bottom of why these things happen in our culture, but it seems our media is totally incapable. So its vapid 24 hours news coverage of massive suffering, then dead silence (or some sort of overt fearmongering) until the next crisis rolls along. No reflection, no deeper investigative reporting into the phenomenom for a few months, nothing. You would think after Columbine there would have been such an effort. To date all I can think of was Michael Moore's film, which is a sad statement on our ability to reflect and question. I don't know, this sort of action leaves me mostly speechless. I just don't undestand it. Not even a little bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce B Posted April 17, 2007 Report Share Posted April 17, 2007 I think I would tune in to news about this shooting if they focused on the shooters background. I am fascinated on what makes people tick and then ultimately implode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlucci Posted April 17, 2007 Report Share Posted April 17, 2007 Check out TheSmokingGun.com for a play the fuckball wrote. Not a modicum of talent in his chosen major, that's for sure! Carlos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogieman Posted April 17, 2007 Report Share Posted April 17, 2007 Check out TheSmokingGun.com for a play the fuckball wrote. Not a modicum of talent in his chosen major, that's for sure! Carlos. Saw that earlier today. It's fucking horrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimness Posted April 18, 2007 Report Share Posted April 18, 2007 This was noted on the "other" forum but he pointed out that it was strange that US universities do no have a plan for dealing with stuff like this. I made the comment that US universities normally don't deal with things like this. Having said that, how do you supposed we can implement a plan for something like this? As a kid, all we ever got were tornado and fire drills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlucci Posted April 18, 2007 Report Share Posted April 18, 2007 This was noted on the "other" forum but he pointed out that it was strange that US universities do no have a plan for dealing with stuff like this. I made the comment that US universities normally don't deal with things like this. Having said that, how do you supposed we can implement a plan for something like this? As a kid, all we ever got were tornado and fire drills. Will be wildly unpopular, but here goes: Announce a program that, for starters, any college student/professor Honorably discharged from the U.S. Armed Services may legally carry a concealed firearm while attending classes on a college campus. Once that is proven safe, roll it out to ALL. Please tell me this filthy piece of fuck was not a gamer! Because if he even so much as played Minesweeper, the media response is going to make Jack Thompson look like a prophet. Carlos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Announce a program that, for starters, any college student/professor Honorably discharged from the U.S. Armed Services may legally carry a concealed firearm while attending classes on a college campus. Once that is proven safe, roll it out to ALL.Oh yeah just what we need. Drunk frat members with firearms. This kid was known to have a problem and nothing was done about it. Why was he even allowed to attend the school with the mental problems he had? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainmaykr Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Will be wildly unpopular, but here goes: "Wildly unpopular" won't do it justice. I'm faaaar removed from the "guns kill people" camp, but I don't know about arming young adults, regardless of their training, much less arming them at a time (college years) when passions are high and consequences are the lowest they will ever be again. Actually, I like things more or less the way they are. I wouldn't mind us enforcing more of the laws that are already on the books. On a side note, if someone had a card game involving serial killers, wouldn't an Asian serial killer be like a beta Black Lotus or something? With the D.C. Sniper, this almost completes the set. ...and the world becomes less and less predictable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFo Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Will be wildly unpopular, but here goes: And also wildly unnecessary, in my opinion. A comment like this can only lead to a discussion on gun control, which we all know qualifies as a political discussion. Anyone remotely familiar with the forum rules knows that this is a strictly forbidden. I'm getting really sick and tired of warning people not to post anything like this but apparently no one is listening. If you want to talk about the shooting itself, please free to do so. However, I don't want to see this thread tread any further into a debate about gun laws and who should or should not be armed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlucci Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 whoops, sorry Jeff, I was just responding to the what can be done. didn't mean to go too far..... This post REDACTED! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogieman Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Why was he even allowed to attend the school with the mental problems he had? So what are you trying to say here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainmaykr Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 ...A comment like this can only lead to a discussion on gun control, which we all know qualifies as a political discussion... No, we didn't all know. Thanks for the clarification on this increasingly nebulous standard before I professed my love for the Smith & Wesson 1911. :lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 So what are you trying to say here? He went to Doctors who said he was unstable. Shouldn't he have been given some help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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