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BREAKING NEWS: Virginia Tech shooting. 20 dead
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04-16-2007, 04:43 PM | #67 | |
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04-16-2007, 05:02 PM | #68 |
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so this has been an interesting day....
I didn't have class until 11:15 and the cancellation email came out before 11, not that I was going to go anyway...my E90 already got vandalized, I don't need it to get a bullet hole through it. My friends roommate skipped his 9 am class, this class was one of the ones shot up by the kid and he shot the professor in the face.
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from what I've seen, people need to let a little more reality into american life and then your girl cheating on you wouldn't make you go postal
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04-16-2007, 05:06 PM | #72 |
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the kid was asian? i know a lot of you are, but so is one of my good friends, and we've been busting his balls all day for it. my ex called me and ask where he was...as a joke
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04-16-2007, 05:11 PM | #73 |
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OMG. This whole thing is crazy.
Poldim, glad to hear you are ok. Give us some more of the 411. |
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Canada has 1/10th our population. I was merely answering his question.
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04-16-2007, 05:27 PM | #76 | |
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or maybe, it's the constitutional right to be entitled to a pursuit of happiness? "Oh, shooting real people is much more fun than playing an action game!" In any case, there is some major fuck up in the mentality of some Americans. I can even understand a murder during a robbery (although it is no less excusable and as much horrible), but just shooting people as if they were some electronic images or cartoon targets is beyond my comprehension. Dima, I'm glad you're ok. |
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I know.. .. and I was just trying to give a hint that in countries with laws on firearms such incidents are very very rare. sure ... if you really want to get a weapon you can, even here in Germany. However, it is really difficult .. which is good.
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04-16-2007, 05:32 PM | #78 |
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I don't want the government to have that kind of power. That's scary to me.
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in the latest article i have read, it seems as though the university didn't handle the incident very well. why would they assume that the gunman had left the campus??
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to generalize that these school shootings only happen in america is just ignorant, this link has just *some* school shootings world wide and I am sure it is not a FULL listings of ALL shootings:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777958.html some countries mentioned in the link include: Canada, Scotland, Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Bosnia, Argentina, Sweden, etc... the bottom line is, these shootings can happen ANYWHERE at ANYTIME, and there is no 'profile' of a typical shooter due to the fact that every case is different.
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There is a big accusation from the media that Tech didn't close campus as soon as the first murders were reported. This is bullshit.
The 7:15 AM 911 call was not for gunshots but rather a report that someone fell out of their bed. The EMT/police show up to find one person dead and another one dying, they instantly tried to figure out what happened and witnesses told them the shooter left the building and headed toward the parking lot. They locked down the building. If they canceled class at 8:15 after everyone was already in class, this killer wouldn't have been limited to the 30 he killed, his limit would be everyone he found outside walking around. Either 11 or 14 thousand people have class at 8 am on Monday. I think it was the correct choice with the information they had at that time.
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never said you did, its just a statement that i think is worth being said because the thread seems to be heading into a direction that has nothing to do with this tragedy.
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I see your point and without a doubt, idiots can be found in every country. But look at the percentage of the incidents that occurred in the U.S. in comparison to other countries ... Maybe it's the high quality of life and lack of real problems that causes people to lose their mind here, I don't know. But it seems that incidents of unmotivated or mental problem-based mass murder are more frequent in the U.S., at least based on the national news reports.
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04-16-2007, 06:04 PM | #85 | |
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But the US does have some of the most relaxed gun laws as opposed to the rest of the world. There is a direct relation between number of guns the population has to number of violent crimes committed with guns. Obviously the more guns that the population holds will equal to more unstable people easily having access to these weapons and committing such crimes.
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Good point.
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Tell that to the parents of the students in Montreal.
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woke up this morning and it was on the sydney news... terrible... the death toll is mmore liek 30 something now? what is the word coming to?
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