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I just read this on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6560685.stm
(posted it in the discussion forum as well):

"It is the deadliest shooting at a US educational facility."

What a strange sentence.

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Originally posted by Frank Burns
They banned drugs...

How's that working out?
Wonderful. However if prohibition happened again I would just have to jump of the top of a very tall building. 😛

I'm not flat out against it, I like to target shoot. Something like this makes me think is all, easy tiger.

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Originally posted by shavixmir
I just read this on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6560685.stm
(posted it in the discussion forum as well):

"It is the deadliest shooting at a US educational facility."

What a strange sentence.
Because of what happened in Texas many moons ago. The sniper in the bell tower?

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Originally posted by Frank Burns
They banned drugs...

How's that working out?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/ms/usa/casestudies/guncontrol/more.shtml

30,000 a year every year? That's a lot of bodies. And I don't live there and I'm not trying to advocate gun control.

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Originally posted by PocketKings
Because of what happened in Texas many moons ago. The sniper in the bell tower?
Was that Columbine?

It still is an incredible sentence though.

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holy crap

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Originally posted by shavixmir
Was that Columbine?

It still is an incredible sentence though.
No, it was Univ. of Texas in like the 60's. I think his name was Whitman.

I agree its a crazy sentence though.

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Originally posted by shavixmir
I just read this on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6560685.stm
(posted it in the discussion forum as well):

"It is the deadliest shooting at a US educational facility."

What a strange sentence.
It was the deadliest shooting rampage in American history, in or out of a school or anywhere else. The death toll is now 31.

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You know, as much as this lends support to a firearm ban, my instant reaction is that I'm sick to death of spree killers and serial killers: whoever this is, he has no grandeur or worth, he's just a dull, whiny narcissist - the most boring, weak, limp-wristed reaction to adversity in life is to go out and hurt other people using a projectile weapon. If it were left to me I'd strike his name from all the reports and chronicles, disinfect his house and pour his ashes into a sewer.

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Interesting read\insight into Charlie Whitman:

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/whitman/charlie_2.html

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This is a shocking crime and our thoughts go out to the families.

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Originally posted by mlprior
The U.S. does not have exclusive rights to this kind of event.

I'm sure it happens in other countries also.
Quite right. The following page details acts of violence (mainly shhotings) in schools around the world. Of the 63 cases mentioned, 55 are in the USA!!
Is this just a coincidence or do you think there might be an underlying problem?

http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/crime/school_violence/school_shootings.html

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Maybe Paul was right when he wrote:
But understand this, that in the last days will come perilous times of great stress and trouble…hard to deal with and hard to bear. People will be lovers of self and utterly self-centered, lovers of money and aroused by a greedy desire for wealth, proud, arrogant and contemptuous boasters. They will be abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane. They will be without natural human affection, callous and inhuman, relentless, and cannot be appeased; they will be slanderers, false accusers, troublemakers, intemperate and loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled and fierce, haters of good. They will be treacherous, rash, and inflated with self-conceit. They will be lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather than lovers of God.

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Originally posted by masscat
Maybe Paul was right when he wrote:
But understand this, that in the last days will come perilous times of great stress and trouble…hard to deal with and hard to bear. People will be lovers of self and utterly self-centered, lovers of money and aroused by a greedy desire for wealth, proud, arrogant and contemptuous boasters. They will be abusive, disobedie ...[text shortened]... will be lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather than lovers of God.
How is that any different than describing Rome, or any other period of time in history. People always fall back on that.

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