That's cause there was an instance of mental illness in the 60's, everyone was too high in the 70's to see straight let alone care, look at the administration in the 80's (Ronnie Ray-gun), in the 90's cognitive disorders were the buzz-words. Now it's just stupid....
No, he didn't. The SWAT team punched him full of holes.
You forgot C - widespread global communication - this means when something happens anywhere we'll know about ASAP - it seems like the world is a more dangerous place when in fact crime and murder rates are lower and people are living longer on average. Small local towns can't keep quiet about something they don't want to talk about and mental illness and its effects won't ever go away if we ignore it. Sure you'll get more copycats, but we are still safer.
Also remember that the last mass murderer was also a foreign national from the Ukraine or something. This latest guy was Korean. Amazing how "American Gun Culture" is still getting the blame in these situations.
You live in a totally different country & culture.
And Partsbara has dropped out of sight. Be afraid America.
The guy had lived here since 1992...I'd call 15 years long enough.
I got to chem. class this morning, and we now have a new policy. Late students will not be allowed to enter class after class has started. Apparently its for "our safety" they say. I hate all the knee jerk reactions going on here...
Really? You've lived in SLC for a while. Are you brainwashed into killing people with guns? I doubt it. You're not insane. The problem is insane, evil human beings....not the guns, not the security or leadership of the mall or college.
Well, if you lived here for a couple of years, it is hard to say it is just a foreign thing.
A banning will not solve the attitude of violence in the US...it's a social matter than will probably never be curbed...Americans are violent by nature. A perfect example is Canada...they have more guns per capita than the US but no where near the homicide rate.....D
your colloquialisms & gun-control advocacy just goes to show you don't fully understand us. we are a people of strong tradition & fiercely diverse. either we'll sort it out, or we won't. don't hold out that any significant change will come of this.
You are right about SWAT. The off-duty cop pinned the killer down.
I know, Im just saying that it's not like these people are violent because theyve been inundated, since birth, with the violent images in media that America is known for. That's what people always want to blame gun violence on...the idea that people are brainwashed by american media into thinking that killing and shooting is rational in some way and so they then carry it out.
Just like that Timothy McVeigh wasnt very harmful because he didnt use a gun, right?
Its a lot easier to obtain and use a gun than to construct an effective bomb. How many regular citizens have the training of a respected military man who almost became a Green Beret?
You mean to tell me that a senior about to graduate w/ an engineering degree from VaTech couldnt effectively make a bomb as well as some half assed army trained meth head loser? You outcha mind.
Wasn't it educated people who let it happen?
in his dorm???
A guy learned to split the atom in his apt., the columbine kids managed to learn bomb making over the internet and made them in their homes. Its not out of the realm of possibility to believe that even without a gun, this guy was indeed capable of some serious violence.
I was wrong, it seems he was lacking in the physical and mental department for the Green Beret, but he still had a decent career until the drugs got to him.
wikipedia said:
Certainly not a supersized McVeigh bomb but a very deadly one could be made in a dorm.
The Columbine kid's various bombs did not work at all for the most part, its not as easy as looking it up on the Internet for the average person let alone the mentally ill. A mentally ill person can easily pull a trigger.
what you said
Good to see a reasoned response rather than just knee-jerk "well you guys suck more than us"
. Knew I could rely on you for some good old fashioned chest thumping.
I grew weed in my dorm for a year and nobody ever caught me...and it was the skunky, phunky kind, too. A motivated mind can give rise to a creative and devious cornucopia of options with but little effort or financial means to support it.
Good for you man. It's certainly not the worst place and if it works for you then you have every right to live here proudly. But the only reason I'm still here is because I have a job with a good salary and I own property. If one or both of those statuses changed, I would be moving to another country, no doubt. And considering the frequency of layoffs at "The Document Company", I'm just biding my time, collecting my paychecks, and building equity for when the day arrives.
i would hardly call a few uber WalMarts 'encampments'
This chick I've been seeing lives in an apartment building in a very "happening" part of town, every time I go to her place I'm struck by the pungent odors emanating from one of the other apartments. I can't believe that 1) the tenant thinks it isn't obvious, and 2) no cops have noticed
I got away with having kegs in my dorm room. I threatened to report the RA if reported me. I knew that he kept (get this) an SKS rifle in his room.
And I'm only so happy to not disappoint! :biggrin:Good to see a reasoned response rather than just knee-jerk "well you guys suck more than us"
nanobots!
Understood but will you actually give up your U.S. citizenship? I would tend to doubt it. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to hang out for years in Holland, B.C., Jamaica or Spain and live the good life riding and toking and whoring and pursuing every other epicurian delight to the hilt...BUT...I would not ever give up my U.S. citizenship nor attempt to raise a family elsewhere for any protracted time. I am of this land and to this land I will one day surrender my ashes. I enjoyed my Hemingway, no doubt, but the expatriate life is just not for me.
I'd probably have to hang onto it for quite a while, and who knows, maybe at some point I would consider returning if the political climate were to change drastically. Right now in my opinion this country is completely f*cked and getting worse, and I can't stand being associated with it.
