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North Illinois University Shooting
Chrasstor:
This kind of thing really bothers me just because of the sheer animosity towards others these people must have.
Why would you do that? I mean, there's some people that I'd be glad to never see again, but this kind of thing is tragic. Imagine how the parents feel? Brothers, sisters? These are just fucking kids after all... Shoot-outs have really been putting young people's lives in danger lately, somebody needs to teach kids that it's not cool to go out like this. What happened to the old fashioned 'hang-yourself' method?
What were you doing when this shit went down? It's weird to think that I was contemplating skipping gym class with a friend when some bastard waltzed into a Geology Class and began firing shots at people not very different than myself. Gives you some perspective on how wild this world really is at any given moment.
dennis:
Man. What the hell.
The simple explanation is that people who go shoot up classrooms are crazy.
Chrasstor:
Yeah, but, what the fuck is with all the shoot-outs lately? Have I just recently come in check with news, or has there really been a tremendous amount of shoot-outs lately? It's getting ridiculous.
There's always been crazies, why now have they all decided that the best way to express themselves is to take a couple of fire-arms into a school and take some lives?
dennis:
Well, there's this one, and the one that happened last year at VT. I can't really think of any others. Two doesn't make a pattern. Violent, aberrant people have existed as long as humanity has. Guns are just weapons, and classrooms are just settings.
I mean, people get shot every day.
Scandanavian War Machine:
actually, i think it does.
i bet if you look at the last 20 years or so there have been an increasing number of school shootings, whereas there was probably that same number of shootings spread throughout the hundred years before that.*
you know what i mean? one per year is an alarming rate. i wouldn't be surprised if 50 years ago they had maybe one every couple of years, maybe even less.
*not actual statistics. i'm just guessing.
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