Mass Shooting at Virginia Tech...

[Island Son]

the mayor of nagasaki, japan was just gunned down this morning...

How many people died in the US this morning?

1996 stats.. (I'll post a more recent one if I find it)
Japan, 0.7 homicides per 100,000 people
US, 7.4 per 100,000 people

 

[velvett]

Obviously people were listening. Students tried to chat with him and include him. He was referred for counseling.

But what do you suggest they do? Submit a police report on every weird student? Jail them indefinitely? Then the person's REALLY gonna have a beef!!

Oh no no... please don't misunderstand me.

He set fire to a dorm room...
He wrote plays about violence

He gave physical clues - I'm sure he gave silent ones.

The students were wonderful to do what they did - trying to involve him.

But he did not think as kindly of his school mates.

It's heart breaking to read/hear about this - the loss of life this way.

I can't imagine the trauma these kids, staff - have experienced - I can't even put my head around the damage this one young man did nor the events from the first shoot to the last or the prep he must have done prior too getting up yesterday.

The doctor reported at 3 gunshots per people - 60 some people - the magazines he had to have preloaded - purchased.

I feel sick just reading about it.

What we're capable as human beings is horrific.

 

[bran987]

Like bloody hell I'm going to live on a campus with a bunch of 18-year old alcoholics allowed to have guns.

 

[gotmilk]

Not at all. I am just pointing out if Cho didn't have a gun he could use much more powerful means of causing calamity.

like what? adding MSG to the schools rice supply?

 

[bran987]

I got all choked up and I threw down my gun
I called him my pa and he called me his son
and I come away with a different point of view

 

[heatherrae]

lol @ poink quoting his NRA pamphlets AGAIN.


Truth is VA handgun laws are already VERY lax. Any of the kids could have gotten handguns.

Just have some damn compassion and quit trying to make EVERYTHING a political thread.

 

[bran987]

Just have some damn compassion and quit trying to make EVERYTHING a political thread.

yep.

when someone wants to give his life for another, you cannot prepare for that.

a crazy got to some of us yesterday.

it's like when that idiot up in the world trade center decided to turn on that big magnet up there and start sucking planes into the buildings. you can't prepare for morons like that.

 

[p0ink]

lol @ poink quoting his NRA pamphlets AGAIN.


Truth is VA handgun laws are already VERY lax. Any of the kids could have gotten handguns.

Just have some damn compassion and quit trying to make EVERYTHING a political thread.

uh, the anti-gun people are already putting out statements, press releases, emails, and talking-heads to further their anti-gun agenda. the politicians are already presenting anti-gun bills, too.

so, how am i wrong?

 

[bran987]

IMO everyone should have nuclear bombhand licenses.

 

[p0ink]

the gun issue isn't simply about guns, either.

i don't think the government should be in the business of telling adults how they should run their lives.

never once have i favored banning anything - not guns, drugs, abortions, alcohol - nothing.