01-24-2018, 09:50 PM | #41 |
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Funny how shootings now have to have big casualty counts now to even warrant discussion. Just the day before the one in Ky, a kid here in Texas walked into thw cafeteria of his school, and shot his former girlfriend and barely missed another kid. The ONLY reason he didn't continue the spree was that he ran out of ammo and fled. Those kids in the cafeteria that day got lucky. Not only did the girl survive, but he was stopped while still in the property and arrested. But all anyone outside our area wants to talk about is the one where they weren't so lucky. Interesting the way people have just gotten used to these things and only take notice when there are massive deaths or injuries.
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That event also has the one-two punch of domestic violence and the system working, neither of which are big news gets.
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01-25-2018, 11:58 AM | #44 | |
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People die all the time. Most of the time you are completely helpless to do anything. Just accept it and try to help where you can and don't let other things weight you down - it's a sure way to madness. Also, impression is just that: an impression, which exists only because new "social media" gives you more access to more news. I am pretty sure, if you go and find all cases all violence in the schools for the past decades - it most likely will be close to how it is nowadays. Just before you didn't had ways to know about it.. |
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01-25-2018, 12:05 PM | #45 |
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And that's just here in the states. Every day something horrible is happening somewhere, whether it's busloads of people getting machine-gunned in Egypt, the 30 families a day getting mutilated by the cartels in Mexico, or the women getting openly burned alive in the streets of Guatemala.
Is this some new thing? Of course not. People are just up in arms about it on their keyboards more nowadays, doing quality loud, mutual complaining with one another over the internet while changing nothing.
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01-25-2018, 12:24 PM | #46 |
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Yeah horrible things have always happen. But I don’t think more people becoming aware of all these horrible things is bad. Modern communication tech has helped many become aware of what they probably would have never known about years ago. And more awareness is good right? Its just the tragic incidents have to impact the eyes and ears of people with power and not only online folks.
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These people are sick; pretty sure none of them really give a crap if they make it out alive at the end.
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01-26-2018, 09:58 AM | #49 |
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It's true. No one is walking into a school with an assault rifle unloading on people is doing so with the remote expectation that they're going to be walking away from it, nor would anyone doing that be concerned with adhering to the latest gun laws.
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"Oh no, if I do this, I'll probably end up dead!" Those are rational thoughts. Not happening in these people.
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The criminals don't follow the law argument conveniently neglects the fact that laws give a wronged party avenues for redress.
The speed limit's not going to keep most people from speeding, but guess who's going to be at fault should the speeder get into an accident and harm another person. If you don't like no gun zones, I would highly suggest not going to them. And I'll be honest, I don't think the people who pull these Mass school shootings are mentally ill, I think they're entitled. The one that no one talked about where the guy came in and shot his ex-girlfriend, that's not mental illness that's entitlement.
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That boy went into the school to shoot his ex-girlfriend, and anyone who got in his way. His ex-girlfriend, meaning at some point she told him no and he thought her no was the wrong answer. He was using the very same logic of deterrence that y'all are expressing here. That having a gun means no one will stand up to you, he was wrong. And I think you're confusing having depression with being depressed. They're not the same thing.
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Since when? In WA that's very much the case. i.e., if your house falls on this side of X street, your kid has to go to this high school; if your house falls on the other side of X street, your kid has to go to this other high school.
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There's home school, there's private school... A quick Google tells me that people are trying to get school choice on the ballot, you may want to get involved in that Grassroots movement.
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That's going to come as a shock to all the people I know who homeschool.
But we digress. As a mentally ill person I am more than a bit tired for me and mine being blamed for the faux entitlement of others.
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But Private schools are definitely expensive. I know in some areas like mine. Families can send their children to private school at the city's cost, if they live in an area where their public school is considered "failing" which is most of the schools around here.
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