There was also a shooting at a South Dakota high school, but no one died so the story will be lucky to make page 7 in tomorrow's newspaper.
That seems fair. A murderous rampage where 10 are dead and many more injured definitely does seem to trump non-life-threatening gun shot wounds in a high school.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
There was also a shooting at a South Dakota high school, but no one died so the story will be lucky to make page 7 in tomorrow's newspaper.
That seems fair. A murderous rampage where 10 are dead and many more injured definitely does seem to trump non-life-threatening gun shot wounds in a high school.
That's part of the problem. With these mass shootings you need to make a statement. You need to kill as many people as you can before they take you down. The media gives these individuals so much attention for their efforts. I would love it if the shooter's name was literally blacklisted by the media. Remember the victims, acknowledge the act but erase the shooter's name and identity from the spotlight. Don't give him his fifteen minutes of fame. Of course we know that this will never happen.
There was also a shooting at a South Dakota high school, but no one died so the story will be lucky to make page 7 in tomorrow's newspaper.
That seems fair. A murderous rampage where 10 are dead and many more injured definitely does seem to trump non-life-threatening gun shot wounds in a high school.
That's part of the problem. With these mass shootings you need to make a statement. You need to kill as many people as you can before they take you down. The media gives these individuals so much attention for their efforts. I would love it if the shooter's name was literally blacklisted by the media. Remember the victims, acknowledge the act but erase the shooter's name and identity from the spotlight. Don't give him his fifteen minutes of fame. Of course we know that this will never happen.
I think it's fairly ludicrous to expect the media to censor facts. I really hate this viewpoint (not you... I have seen this said many times before, and every time I think about how what it really says is that the media should be picking and choosing what news we get in order to create a bias towards vicitims. NO THANK YOU!!! I support an unbiased, censorship-free media, thank you very much!).
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
I don't often comment on these pages, but this is the 45th school shooting in the US this year. I'm at a loss for words, I feel my compassion slowly diminishing...... how can a country as great and as advanced in so many ways be so completely in denial about such a horrendous problem?
I don't often comment on these pages, but this is the 45th school shooting in the US this year. I'm at a loss for words, I feel my compassion slowly diminishing...... how can a country as great and as advanced in so many ways be so completely in denial about such a horrendous problem?
I ask myself that many, many times. It's incomprehensible to me and I would say to most Europeans
I don't often comment on these pages, but this is the 45th school shooting in the US this year. I'm at a loss for words, I feel my compassion slowly diminishing...... how can a country as great and as advanced in so many ways be so completely in denial about such a horrendous problem?
Compassion for what?
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
I don't often comment on these pages, but this is the 45th school shooting in the US this year. I'm at a loss for words, I feel my compassion slowly diminishing...... how can a country as great and as advanced in so many ways be so completely in denial about such a horrendous problem?
Compassion for what?
I can't really speak for others but maybe he means we're all becoming a little desensitised to it because it just keeps happening and America shows no will or desire to stop their children and young people being killed
I don't often comment on these pages, but this is the 45th school shooting in the US this year. I'm at a loss for words, I feel my compassion slowly diminishing...... how can a country as great and as advanced in so many ways be so completely in denial about such a horrendous problem?
Compassion for what?
I can't really speak for others but maybe he means we're all becoming a little desensitised to it because it just keeps happening and America shows no will or desire to stop their children and young people being killed
This. You would have thought Sandy Hook would have been THE one that changed things.....
Why are we still talking about school shootings 16 years after Columbine?
It is nuts, but I wonder if it has to do with the babying of kids growing up. Most kids now are not taught that the world is a tough place. They don't know how to fail or what to do when they fail. Then when it happens their world falls apart and they go off the deep end. I am not sure about the shooter I am just making a general statement. Condolences to their families, no parent should have to bury their child.
There was also a shooting at a South Dakota high school, but no one died so the story will be lucky to make page 7 in tomorrow's newspaper.
That seems fair. A murderous rampage where 10 are dead and many more injured definitely does seem to trump non-life-threatening gun shot wounds in a high school.
That's part of the problem. With these mass shootings you need to make a statement. You need to kill as many people as you can before they take you down. The media gives these individuals so much attention for their efforts. I would love it if the shooter's name was literally blacklisted by the media. Remember the victims, acknowledge the act but erase the shooter's name and identity from the spotlight. Don't give him his fifteen minutes of fame. Of course we know that this will never happen.
I think it's fairly ludicrous to expect the media to censor facts. I really hate this viewpoint (not you... I have seen this said many times before, and every time I think about how what it really says is that the media should be picking and choosing what news we get in order to create a bias towards vicitims. NO THANK YOU!!! I support an unbiased, censorship-free media, thank you very much!).
I don't think that the majority of today's media gives two pins about facts. It's about selling a product and the life and times of this unnamed gunman will inevitably take center stage for the next week or so. It's what sells, but it is hardly what one would describe as being meaningful information. It's just another story about another disgruntled loser with the means and opportunity to inflict excessive carnage on an unsuspecting group. It's the same old story we've heard before and will continue to hear again and again.
As for the media picking and choosing what news we get; they already do that. I think it's even scarier that people still think that unbiased media is actually a thing. It was never such a thing and it never will be.
I don't often comment on these pages, but this is the 45th school shooting in the US this year. I'm at a loss for words, I feel my compassion slowly diminishing...... how can a country as great and as advanced in so many ways be so completely in denial about such a horrendous problem?
speaking only as a person who lives in said country, it seems to me that no one is in denial about the situation. There's a huge schism between those who believe this problem needs to be addressed by restricting access to guns, and those who believe that restricting access to guns will not address this problem. There's probably a 3rd school of people who don't give a shit one way or another too.
I don't often comment on these pages, but this is the 45th school shooting in the US this year. I'm at a loss for words, I feel my compassion slowly diminishing...... how can a country as great and as advanced in so many ways be so completely in denial about such a horrendous problem?
speaking only as a person who lives in said country, it seems to me that no one is in denial about the situation. There's a huge schism between those who believe this problem needs to be addressed by restricting access to guns, and those who believe that restricting access to guns will not address this problem. There's probably a 3rd school of people who don't give a shit one way or another too.
Yeah I have to believe that those who oppose gun control aren't just cold, heartless people who couldn't care less about all the lives being so needlessly lost. However this begs the question, how can they honestly believe that the answer is more guns? You know their response to this will be to say 'well if some of those innocent victims had been armed then fewer people would have died'. On and on it goes, round in circles of blood
I think it's important to know about the shooter - background, mental issues, how the weapon became available, breaking point, etc. - in the (probably slight) hope that another one of these tragedies can be prevented.
I think it's important to know about the shooter - background, mental issues, how the weapon became available, breaking point, etc. - in the (probably slight) hope that another one of these tragedies can be prevented.
Long-shot, I'm sure.
What exactly has that accomplished? There have certainly been enough massacres before this one to make a slew of case studies yet it doesn't seem to mean anything. There are a lot of mentally ill people who have easy access to a variety of firearms. What are we going to learn that's different this time around?
I think it's important to know about the shooter - background, mental issues, how the weapon became available, breaking point, etc. - in the (probably slight) hope that another one of these tragedies can be prevented.
Long-shot, I'm sure.
What exactly has that accomplished? There have certainly been enough massacres before this one to make a slew of case studies yet it doesn't seem to mean anything. There are a lot of mentally ill people who have easy access to a variety of firearms. What are we going to learn that's different this time around?
He was a quiet kid He kept to himself a lot. He didn't have many friends He loved video games Maybe we should have seen the signs.
Blah Blah Blah.
Take me piece by piece..... Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
I don't often comment on these pages, but this is the 45th school shooting in the US this year. I'm at a loss for words, I feel my compassion slowly diminishing...... how can a country as great and as advanced in so many ways be so completely in denial about such a horrendous problem?
speaking only as a person who lives in said country, it seems to me that no one is in denial about the situation. There's a huge schism between those who believe this problem needs to be addressed by restricting access to guns, and those who believe that restricting access to guns will not address this problem. There's probably a 3rd school of people who don't give a shit one way or another too.
Yeah I have to believe that those who oppose gun control aren't just cold, heartless people who couldn't care less about all the lives being so needlessly lost. However this begs the question, how can they honestly believe that the answer is more guns? You know their response to this will be to say 'well if some of those innocent victims had been armed then fewer people would have died'. On and on it goes, round in circles of blood
It has to do with environment. There's people who come up believing that guns are not dangerous as long as you know what you are doing. That the people who do these shootings have mental problems (which is true) and that they do not obtain the guns legally, therefore enacting any stricter gun control laws are just punishing law abiding citizens. The way you frame that sentiment, about innocent lives being lost - is not something that gets considered.
Then you've got people like me who have no interest in and want no part of guns at all. Who sit back and look at this knowing we are powerless to stop it.
I don't often comment on these pages, but this is the 45th school shooting in the US this year. I'm at a loss for words, I feel my compassion slowly diminishing...... how can a country as great and as advanced in so many ways be so completely in denial about such a horrendous problem?
speaking only as a person who lives in said country, it seems to me that no one is in denial about the situation. There's a huge schism between those who believe this problem needs to be addressed by restricting access to guns, and those who believe that restricting access to guns will not address this problem. There's probably a 3rd school of people who don't give a shit one way or another too.
It comes across as denial, because there has been no significant movement towards change at all. It's that old saying about doing what you always did and getting what you always got.
I don't often comment on these pages, but this is the 45th school shooting in the US this year. I'm at a loss for words, I feel my compassion slowly diminishing...... how can a country as great and as advanced in so many ways be so completely in denial about such a horrendous problem?
speaking only as a person who lives in said country, it seems to me that no one is in denial about the situation. There's a huge schism between those who believe this problem needs to be addressed by restricting access to guns, and those who believe that restricting access to guns will not address this problem. There's probably a 3rd school of people who don't give a shit one way or another too.
It comes across as denial, because there has been no significant movement towards change at all. It's that old saying about doing what you always did and getting what you always got.
I understand that. And trust me, personally I'm on the side of stricter gun control. But large portions of the population of this country don't think that that is a good idea. Even our goddamned President has had it up to here with that bullshit but apparently he can't do anything about it either. Tell me, if the President can't get stricter gun control put into place, what the hell can the rest of us do?
I don't often comment on these pages, but this is the 45th school shooting in the US this year. I'm at a loss for words, I feel my compassion slowly diminishing...... how can a country as great and as advanced in so many ways be so completely in denial about such a horrendous problem?
speaking only as a person who lives in said country, it seems to me that no one is in denial about the situation. There's a huge schism between those who believe this problem needs to be addressed by restricting access to guns, and those who believe that restricting access to guns will not address this problem. There's probably a 3rd school of people who don't give a shit one way or another too.
It comes across as denial, because there has been no significant movement towards change at all. It's that old saying about doing what you always did and getting what you always got.
I understand that. And trust me, personally I'm on the side of stricter gun control. But large portions of the population of this country don't think that that is a good idea. Even our goddamned President has had it up to here with that bullshit but apparently he can't do anything about it either. Tell me, if the President can't get stricter gun control put into place, what the hell can the rest of us do?
Supposedly the shooter posted online last night his plans for today. Yet nothing was done to arrest him?! from cnn.com: 'I'm so insignificant' According to the source close to the investigation, authorities are looking at social media posts between a person they believe may have been the shooter, and others.
The conversation happened Wednesday night on 4chan.
In it, the writer talks about planning to carry out a shooting. Others egg him on, giving him suggestions on how to do it, and the type of weapons to use.
The responses are mixed -- with some users characterizing the would-be gunman as a pathetic loser. Others called him a twisted hero.
In the posts, there is a reference to the UC Santa Barbara shooter, who wrote a manifesto and videoed himself before opening fire a year ago.
"This is the only time I'll ever be in the news. I'm so insignificant," reads an apparent post by the would-be Oregon gunman.
i am not gonna get tendinitis in my wrist and fingers sitting here typing about it.
so fucking sick of it happening again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and nothing changes.
it is routine in america now. mass shooting, we all feel bad and talk about it for a few days, and then kylie jenner puts her boobs on instagram and breaks the internet and everyone forgets about mass shootings.
wash
rinse
repeat.
on
and
on
the
band
played
on.
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
34 people woke up this morning. 13 had no idea they would breathe their last. 20 had no idea they would need to learn how to move forward after physically healing. 1 had an agenda.
Blood payment for liberty has been paid. For today. Paid , just for today.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
I don't often comment on these pages, but this is the 45th school shooting in the US this year. I'm at a loss for words, I feel my compassion slowly diminishing...... how can a country as great and as advanced in so many ways be so completely in denial about such a horrendous problem?
speaking only as a person who lives in said country, it seems to me that no one is in denial about the situation. There's a huge schism between those who believe this problem needs to be addressed by restricting access to guns, and those who believe that restricting access to guns will not address this problem. There's probably a 3rd school of people who don't give a shit one way or another too.
Yeah I have to believe that those who oppose gun control aren't just cold, heartless people who couldn't care less about all the lives being so needlessly lost. However this begs the question, how can they honestly believe that the answer is more guns? You know their response to this will be to say 'well if some of those innocent victims had been armed then fewer people would have died'. On and on it goes, round in circles of blood
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Why are we still talking about school shootings 16 years after Columbine?
This situation is fucking absurd.
As for the media picking and choosing what news we get; they already do that. I think it's even scarier that people still think that unbiased media is actually a thing. It was never such a thing and it never will be.
Not ONE FUCKING MONTH, after classes began, across this country.....
For another massacre to take place...
You send your child off to college.
A month later he is returned to you, in a body bag.
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
There's probably a 3rd school of people who don't give a shit one way or another too.
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Long-shot, I'm sure.
He kept to himself a lot.
He didn't have many friends
He loved video games
Maybe we should have seen the signs.
Blah Blah Blah.
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
Then you've got people like me who have no interest in and want no part of guns at all. Who sit back and look at this knowing we are powerless to stop it.
LIVEFOOTSTEPS.ORG/USER/?USR=435
LIVEFOOTSTEPS.ORG/USER/?USR=435
Yeah, we don't have a gun problem here in the good Ole USA.
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
from cnn.com:
'I'm so insignificant'
According to the source close to the investigation, authorities are looking at social media posts between a person they believe may have been the shooter, and others.
The conversation happened Wednesday night on 4chan.
In it, the writer talks about planning to carry out a shooting. Others egg him on, giving him suggestions on how to do it, and the type of weapons to use.
The responses are mixed -- with some users characterizing the would-be gunman as a pathetic loser. Others called him a twisted hero.
In the posts, there is a reference to the UC Santa Barbara shooter, who wrote a manifesto and videoed himself before opening fire a year ago.
"This is the only time I'll ever be in the news. I'm so insignificant," reads an apparent post by the would-be Oregon gunman.
absolutely fucking nothing.
i am not gonna get tendinitis in my wrist and fingers sitting here typing about it.
so fucking sick of it happening again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and nothing changes.
it is routine in america now. mass shooting, we all feel bad and talk about it for a few days, and then kylie jenner puts her boobs on instagram and breaks the internet and everyone forgets about mass shootings.
wash
rinse
repeat.
on
and
on
the
band
played
on.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Does anyone know - are these shooter guys charged as terrorists?
LIVEFOOTSTEPS.ORG/USER/?USR=435
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/01/2015-274-days-294-mass-shootings-hundreds-dead/?tid=sm_fb
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
We still got some evolving to do.