Oh, honestly :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by FalconsSB
are you scared to fly too? Or cross the road? :blink:
Statistically, school shootings are incredibly rare occurrences.
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Oh, honestly :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by FalconsSB
are you scared to fly too? Or cross the road? :blink:
Statistically, school shootings are incredibly rare occurrences.
Sorry it was local news here and at first I saw 2 then 8 then later saw 22 then, ultimately, 31 (or 32).Quote:
Originally Posted by Seedler
I really hate emos taking their little problems out on everyone else.
Your girlfriend dumped you cuz you dress fucked up.
Your professor rags on you cuz you don't do your schoolwork cuz you fucked around on forums, read comic books, and played Xbox Live all fucking day.
You don't have many friends cuz of the same reasons your girlfriend dumped you. How the fuck did you get a GF anyway? Oh I know. It was a bet.
Emos make me sick. You can be smart but still be cool and look good.
Then everything falls into place but you don't wanna make the effort, you geek fucks.
Haha, I was JKQuote:
Originally Posted by BarbarossaOh, honestly :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by FalconsSB
are you scared to fly too? Or cross the road? :blink:
Statistically, school shootings are incredibly rare occurrences.
You can't argue with that sort of well thought out balanced post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman™Sorry it was local news here and at first I saw 2 then 8 then later saw 22 then, ultimately, 31 (or 32).Quote:
Originally Posted by Seedler
I really hate emos taking their little problems out on everyone else.
Your girlfriend dumped you cuz dress fucked up.
Your professor rags on you cuz you don't do your schoolwork cuz you fucked around on forums, read comic books, and played Xbox Live all fucking day.
You don't have many friends cuz of the same reasons your girlfriend dumped you. How the fuck did you get a GF anyway? Oh I know. It was a bet.
Emos make me sick. You can be smart but still be cool and look good.
Then everything falls into place but you don't wanna make the effort, you geek fucks.
Well, maybe TheGepperDaveRankins can. Where is he :unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by JPaulYou can't argue with that sort of well thought out balanced post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman™
Self-mutilating one assumes.Quote:
Originally Posted by BarbarossaWell, maybe TheGepperDaveRankins can. Where is he :unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by JPaul
You mean, Useless security/police for the loss..Quote:
Originally Posted by Seedler
it was an asian.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alien5
I watched a good bit of this at work today as it was a bit slow.
Everyone keeps asking how this guy managed to attack twice. How the hell did that happen?
He walked.
Took a little stroll.
What happened was that the building he struck was closed down. Normally, that is proper protocol. The amount of security put in place was a lot higher than what most other universities have done.
There was a double-homicide at the University of Washington a couple weeks back. The building was closed off, but the rest of the campus remained open. So what happened at VTech is no isolated incident of alleged "negligence."
I feel there are two ways this could've gone down.
1. What happened, or
2. An alternate reality where the whole campus was shut down like everybody is saying it should have been, and when nothing happens, we get another repeat of the Boston Aqua Teen bomb scare. And if the latter happened everybody would be complaining about police enforcement run amok.
And let's say that people did establish checkpoints outside of all the classrooms. All fifty-some buildings on the enormous multi-acre campus. How would they have stopped it? Cancel all the classes and tell everybody to go back to the dorms? Then we'd have 33 dead bodies in rec rooms, pool halls, and cafeterias. Or we'd have 33+ corpses strewn about the quads, staircases, plazas, and pathways.
When somebody snaps and decides to go on a shooting spree like this, where's the authoritative limit? Where do we stop short of simply arresting all 25,000 students and locking them up under strict supervision?
We'd love to think that more security could have been put in place. We'd love to think it could have been prevented. Ya know, if there's somebody who claims that he has the answers, to have this amazing foresight and glimpse into the distant future to know where crimes like this will take place, I want his/her phone number, mobile, home, fax, everything. I want his number so the next time it happens, I can call him up and ask "where the hell was the tip-off? Forget the number for 911, Miss Cleo?"
Bickering about "what-if's" won't bring those 33+ souls back, and if anybody has any actual ideas to prevent shooting sprees like this, ideas better than "more blanket random security" or "durr get rid of the guns", I'd like to hear them. :dry:
In fact, don't tell me - Write your congressman. Write your local police chief. They'll give a damn if you have the ultimate answer to solving the "how to stop a suicidal killing-machine".
We have the 4th amendment and it (love it or hate it) isn't going away.
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Originally Posted by Busyman™
re-read the title of this thread plz