Shooting at school in Connecticut.
Fucking Nut Jobs.
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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:28,
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I think this is a bit different eh?
27 dead, 18 of them children...
Grim
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:39,
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horrific
they were jsut talking about a few injured when i posted it before. :/
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Scrolled down on my phone to see if it was already posted
Thought this was breaking news and therefore not so far down the links.
My bad
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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:42,
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Ignore me
My petty cries of GC are a bit inappropriate
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mookay immune to icons since, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:43,
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FFS
Why is it always schools?
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:36,
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Maybe the nutters are trying to out do each other.
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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:39,
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^
That's exactly what I think. But the article I read said the shooter has ties to the school so maybe there is a bit more going on here than just a nutter.
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flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Fri 14 Dec 2012, 19:12,
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at the risk of seeming cold, dozens of these incidents happen every month in Africa or SE Asia, and they go unreported. As sad as it is, every time I hear one of these reports about some nutjob in USA/Europe, it just reminds me that collectively we don't really consider those in the third world to be the same level of human as us.
Descendants of white Europeans slaughtered = several days of front-page news.
Descendants of others slaughtered = 2 paragraphs a week later.
Not that I'm preaching from a high moral standpoint - I don't care about African massacres either.
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feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:44,
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Sadly true
I think in this country we kind of assume that most of Africa is in the shit one way or another, so we aren't surprised by the articles.
I remember a day or two after the London bombings in which 52 people died I saw a small article on the BBC website about 99 people killed in a bus bombing somewhere. Might have been Egypt...don't even remember now, but it was a grim context.
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:55,
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anyone hear about the typhoon in the Philippines?
www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/12/the_wake_of_typhoon_bopha_phil.html
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Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:59,
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Nope
Fuck :(
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Fri 14 Dec 2012, 19:00,
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yeah it didn't make the bbc news depsite over 500 people dying
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Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 19:04,
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It did, but only if you were watching at 1AM
You know when they have thta guy from Singapore on.
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retrofly How about a link to a picture of something funny.., Fri 14 Dec 2012, 19:21,
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Excellent point
I've read alot about Rwanda, DRC &c. and I've had tears streaming down my face reading- it's hard to comprehend such carnage/brutality/erosion of empathy....
And worse that the global reaction is a big "meh".
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 19:01,
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that said, and at the risk of having 3 likes withdrawn (I know - the sacrifices I am willing to make)and as much as the USA is a fucking ignorant basket case, I do support the second amendment.
Thats not to say I think they manage it well, and the US has gone from being the most interesting debating ground (they very nearly voted in a Socialist President in the '30s) on the planet to being the most collectively & wilfully ignorant concentration of humans in history (including Australia) in the relative blink of an eye.
That aside, enshrining a populations right to arm itself to keep its government in check (which was one of the key reasons initially) is a fine principle which I think should underpin all civilised democracies.
The right to bear arms isnt America's problem, its the fact that it being the spiritual home of capitalism has led it to render most of its population bereft, pig-ignorant, expolited & bitter.
'A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed'
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feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Sat 15 Dec 2012, 1:20,
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20-year-old in connection with the school...
::EDIT:: Realised I'm automatically assuming "with ties to the school" meant he went there. Ignore that for now...
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:39,
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Fucking hell
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:41,
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It's too bad he died. There should be a provision for torture for such bastards.
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:43,
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Makes me wonder if they intend on killing themselves
They don't start with themselves rather leaving that bit till last.
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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:45,
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Yeah, if you want to snuff it, why take anyone with you?
Nutjob.
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:46,
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Yep
Now he's dead, all the tabloids will be salivating over the 'portrait of a killer' type articles, where the shooter becomes an enigma; a source of worldwide speculation and interest.
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mookay immune to icons since, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:47,
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I bet he was playing COD
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:50,
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Ah bollocks
Bets on how long until some video game gets brought up in the Daily Mail in connection with this story?
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:58,
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That and the immigrants
Mindpiss
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 19:00,
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Too bad he had easy access to a high powered rifel.
I reckon with a double barreled 12bore he would have only got trhough half of that lot.
:|
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retrofly How about a link to a picture of something funny.., Fri 14 Dec 2012, 19:25,
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Dad?
He was only a kid himself. Sad.
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:44,
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Hmm actually it was a Daily Mail speculation...
"There are preliminary reports a student's 20-year-old father was the shooter and that he went from classroom to classroom firing at students and teachers with a .223-caliber rifle.". I'm guessing he posed as a father to get in.
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mookay immune to icons since, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:49,
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There's also rumours of a second shooter??
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:51,
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Intense debate about gun control starting in 3... 2... 1...
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Butters and his titanium codsocket, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:55,
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Guns don't kill people
Americans kill people
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mookay immune to icons since, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 18:56,
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I'm starting to have the same reaction to high school shootings
as I do when I watch clips of people fighting over apple products on Black Friday
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Butters and his titanium codsocket, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 19:02,
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Hahaha! senate control laws on apple products now!!!
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Fri 14 Dec 2012, 19:07,
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Any president who has the balls to try and change the second amendment
will be assassinated, by a gun.
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mookay immune to icons since, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 19:10,
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Lets have an experiment
Relax gun control laws in the UK and see what happens. What could possibly go wrong?
I'm not 100% against guns (I shoot on a regular basis). But there has ot be some proper control and regulation. Offering a BYGOF at your local Wlamart when you buy $10 of hot wings is not good enough.
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retrofly How about a link to a picture of something funny.., Fri 14 Dec 2012, 19:23,
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Terrible. But this is now what'll happen
SENSIBLE PEOPLE:
FFS America! Why do you keep shooting each other? Ban guns!
DUMB AMERICANS:
It's not guns that kill people, it's people that kill people.
SENSIBLE PEOPLE:
Yes, with fucking guns!
DUMB AMERICANS:
But if guns weren't here, maniacs would only go out and use something else to kill people. Like a knife.
SENSIBLE PEOPLE:
And don't you think it'd be easier to disarm a man with a knife than a man with a gun?
DUMB AMERICANS:
Umm...maybe...but if the government takes all our guns away, we'll be burgled and raped 24/7!
SENSIBLE PEOPLE:
We're not.
DUMB AMERICANS:
What do you mean?
SENSIBLE PEOPLE:
Here in the UK. Guns are banned and hardly anyone gets burhgled or raped or murdered. Explain that.
DUMB AMERICANS:
No time, I'm off to buy junior a Smith & Wesson to take to school tomorrow. Yee-haw!
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The confusing part?
CANADIANS:
It's not the guns...we've got them. We just don't shoot each other.
SWISS:
Same here.
UK:
*runs off with your bike and wallet*
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Sat 15 Dec 2012, 2:03,
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Another one, *sigh
More reporting leading to probably another one somewhere else in America.
I just find it sad that someone was that desperate that they did what I imagine to be the worst thing he could think of.
And this time of year as well. Makes things harder for people and makes people even nuttier.
There'll be a big debate about gun laws etc. etc.
But the problem will remain, another one will happen. Probably another before Christmas, on a smaller scale as security will be tightened, maybe a mall next? Who knows. Shit's all fucked up though.
America has some real problems, something's really wrong underneath all the pleasant nature and idealistic values. Too much of the old guns this, guns that, games, TV, films. They love it. Call of duty, freddie Wong, you name it.]rambling now...
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Everybody has likely moved on from this thread now, but can I just add that from what I've just briefly researched these shootings generally take place with legally bought weapons, so I'm wondering if the guns weren't available to be bought whether the shootings would have been averted.
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quackpipe swings like a pendulum do, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 21:09,
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Such shootings may take place with legally bought guns
because such shootings are made by fucking nuts.
If not guns that would be fertilizer bombs or what
else.
Yet, common criminal activity takes place with black
market guns and it will always be like it.
One can draw their own conclusions.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 22:13,
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id just like to thank Coccyx for providing a well informed debate. hes basically a 1 man army debating against everybody else.
(but i definitely dont agree with you, sorry)
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A debate on if guns should be allowed or not isn't really
the big problem.
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It's the debate on if debate on if guns should be allowed or not should be allowed or not?
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Sat 15 Dec 2012, 0:11,
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This is indeed terrible. Have some context:
Undernutrition contributes to five million deaths of children under five each year in developing countries.
(Source: Under five deaths by cause, UNICEF, 2006)
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4Q just lurking, Fri 14 Dec 2012, 22:49,
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Thanks for posting this maiden
the discussion it's set off is well worth reading.
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