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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    he still stands wrote:
    Guns are and always will be a part of American life.
    And so will be violence, mayhem and incidents such as this one (an many other like it).
  • PJPOWER
    PJPOWER Posts: 6,499
    My thoughts on this is that maybe we should require people to have licenses to have children...In an ideal world, children have the social skills to keep them from resorting to violence to deal with their anger. In the world today, children are exposed to a ton of violence and rewarded for it (A.K.A Grand Theft Auto)...Guns have been around for a long time, but school shootings have increased ten fold in the past 30 or so years. My family owned guns...I was bullied in school...but I, as many other people do, had a decent set of morals and values to keep me from going and blowing the head off of someone that I was mad at. How can we enforce a ban on unfit parents?
  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    redrock wrote:
    he still stands wrote:
    Guns are and always will be a part of American life.
    And so will be violence, mayhem and incidents such as this one (an many other like it).

    I'm optimistic that eventually people will stop killing each other. We're supposed to be the smartest species on the planet but the only one to kill each other for a purpose other than eating the victim. (ok... chickens will fight to the death too) Quite the paradox. I'm hopeful for a leap in emotional intelligence soon... maybe that is what 2012 is. Maybe I'm being polyanna...
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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    he still stands wrote:
    redrock wrote:
    he still stands wrote:
    Guns are and always will be a part of American life.
    And so will be violence, mayhem and incidents such as this one (an many other like it).

    I'm optimistic that eventually people will stop killing each other.

    we'll destroy ourselves or the planet (making it inhabitable) before that ever happens. I'm usually an optimist, but in this case, I don't think there's any reason to believe that mankind is smart enough to keep his own species thriving.

    dolphins will eventually rule the world. They'll evolve and start walking on land. And they'll start a football team and call themselves the Miami Humans.
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  • he still stands
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    Johnny Sitar wrote:
    we'll destroy ourselves or the planet (making it inhabitable) before that ever happens. I'm usually an optimist, but in this case, I don't think there's any reason to believe that mankind is smart enough to keep his own species thriving.

    dolphins will eventually rule the world. They'll evolve and start walking on land. And they'll start a football team and call themselves the Miami Humans.

    There is this concept called "neurogenetic evolution" that theorizes that our DNA/RNA is "intelligent" and its goal is the survival of our species. The human mind, imagination, intelligence about intelligence - all is a result of the DNA/RNA survival guide, according to neurogenetic evolution. It is a quite interesting science and makes me optimisitic in the future of humans.
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  • _
    _ Posts: 6,657
    3 killed in Alabama university shooting

    February 12, 2010 5:29 p.m. EST
    http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/12/alabama.university.shooting/index.html?hpt=T2

    (CNN) -- Three people were killed and one was wounded Friday after a shooting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, said Ray Garner, a spokesman for the university.

    A female shooter was in custody, he said.

    The incident occurred about 4:15 p.m. in Shelby Hall, which police were still searching, said Trent Willis, a spokesman for the mayor. "We do have some witnesses," he said.
  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    A female shooter is extremely unusual. Wow.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,726
    scb wrote:
    3 killed in Alabama university shooting

    February 12, 2010 5:29 p.m. EST
    http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/12/alabama.university.shooting/index.html?hpt=T2

    (CNN) -- Three people were killed and one was wounded Friday after a shooting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, said Ray Garner, a spokesman for the university.

    A female shooter was in custody, he said.

    The incident occurred about 4:15 p.m. in Shelby Hall, which police were still searching, said Trent Willis, a spokesman for the mayor. "We do have some witnesses," he said.
    this shit is getting ridiculous..we must be getting desensitized to it since it was not even covered on any major news websites until hours after the fact...
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  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    rebornFixer wrote:
    A female shooter is extremely unusual. Wow.


    Young people fighting a society they want nothing to do with, with violence at all hands. Its very sad how but gender has nothing to do with it. It does not surprise me.
  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    the shooter went to freakin' harvard.

    what is it about that place?

    First the unabomber and now this nutbag...
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  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    Commy wrote:
    rebornFixer wrote:
    A female shooter is extremely unusual. Wow.


    Young people fighting a society they want nothing to do with, with violence at all hands. Its very sad how but gender has nothing to do with it. It does not surprise me.

    She isn't exactly young...

    "Amy Bishop, 42, a Harvard-educated neurobiologist who became an assistant professor at the school in 2003, has been charged with capital murder."

    she was quoted as saying, "It didn't happen. There's no way. ... They are still alive." :?
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    "he wrote:

    She isn't exactly young...

    "Amy Bishop, 42, a Harvard-educated neurobiologist who became an assistant professor at the school in 2003, has been charged with capital murder."

    she was quoted as saying, "It didn't happen. There's no way. ... They are still alive." :?


    Apparently she was just denied tenure at the university.
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  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    Commy wrote:
    rebornFixer wrote:
    A female shooter is extremely unusual. Wow.


    Young people fighting a society they want nothing to do with, with violence at all hands. Its very sad how but gender has nothing to do with it. It does not surprise me.

    The ideal is that gender has nothing to do with it, but the reality is quite different. Almost all of these rampaging shooters are men. Perhaps things are changing.
  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    I'm surprised so few people have commented on the fact that this is a middle-aged woman who went to Harvard... not exactly the typical aggressor in "school shootings" (a teenage boy with a poor upbringing who has been bullied his whole life)
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  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    he still stands wrote:
    I'm surprised so few people have commented on the fact that this is a middle-aged woman who went to Harvard... not exactly the typical aggressor in "school shootings" (a teenage boy with a poor upbringing who has been bullied his whole life)

    This case is more similar to the classic "postal shooting" scenario, in which middle-agred man gets "tired" and finally snaps, shooting up the workplace.
  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    rebornFixer wrote:
    he still stands wrote:
    I'm surprised so few people have commented on the fact that this is a middle-aged woman who went to Harvard... not exactly the typical aggressor in "school shootings" (a teenage boy with a poor upbringing who has been bullied his whole life)

    This case is more similar to the classic "postal shooting" scenario, in which middle-agred man gets "tired" and finally snaps, shooting up the workplace.

    yeah... like the movie "He Was a Quiet Man."

    geez... just take the office copier out to a field and beat it with baseball bats like the rest of us! :lol:
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  • dasvidana
    dasvidana Grand Junction CO Posts: 1,356
    I cannot believe the latest news....saddens me to think that people are just trying to learn/teach and end up getting shot. I just wish we could institute rules to make schools as safe as airports and government buildings. If that means metal detectors and armed guards at the doors, so be it.
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  • _
    _ Posts: 6,657
    dasvidana wrote:
    I cannot believe the latest news....saddens me to think that people are just trying to learn/teach and end up getting shot. I just wish we could institute rules to make schools as safe as airports and government buildings. If that means metal detectors and armed guards at the doors, so be it.

    This made me wonder.... Have any of you seen data on whether an person more likely to be killed in a school shooting or in a hijacked plane in the US? Gotta be school shooting, right?
  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    scb wrote:
    dasvidana wrote:
    I cannot believe the latest news....saddens me to think that people are just trying to learn/teach and end up getting shot. I just wish we could institute rules to make schools as safe as airports and government buildings. If that means metal detectors and armed guards at the doors, so be it.

    This made me wonder.... Have any of you seen data on whether an person more likely to be killed in a school shooting or in a hijacked plane in the US? Gotta be school shooting, right?

    I'd be willing to bet both are less likely than say... getting hit by lightning.
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  • dasvidana
    dasvidana Grand Junction CO Posts: 1,356
    http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/p ... 2009-a.pdf


    Statistical info on youth violence in case anyone is interested.
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