Forum: The Classroom Topic: More crazy kids shooting up the school started by: askheaves Posted by whiskey@throttle on Mar. 04 2001,18:11
crazy adj 1: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, demented, distracted, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged] 2: (informal) foolish; totally unsound; "an impractical solution"; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working" [syn: half-baked, screwball, softheaded] 3: marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; "she was crazy about him"; "gaga over the rock group's new album"; "he was infatuated with her" [syn: dotty, gaga, enamored, infatuated, in love, smitten, soft on(p), taken with(p)]
Posted by LazyGit on Mar. 04 2001,19:59
I liked the bit where some kid tried to excuse the shooter's actions by saying, "People thought he was dumb."Well he sure as hell went and proved them ... er ... right. Posted by Dark Knight Bob on Mar. 04 2001,20:08
don't do drugs kids!
Posted by damien_s_lucifer on Mar. 04 2001,20:37
quote: Smiling? Duh. I'd be grinning too if I was taking out a school.
quote: Er... obviously he WAS someone who would do something like this. Anyway, the Baby Boomers will be remembered as the generation with the worst parenting skills ever. edit : fixed UBB code This message has been edited by damien_s_lucifer on March 05, 2001 at 03:38 PM Posted by whiskey@throttle on Mar. 04 2001,20:51
You're completely right, Damien. I have an aunt who refuses to spank her kid, a 8-year brat I have the misfortune to call my cousin. (not just at this age, but all throughout his development) This plump little bastard cries every single time he doesn't get his way - especially when it comes to ordering a double dose of food. He once even spit in his Dad's face, but his Mom refused to retaliate. When his Dad gets mad, Mommy comes to the rescue. What's going to happen when he gets pressured by drugs and violence? I'm not sure, but I do know that if I had spit in my Dad's face, he would have shattered my jaw. In fact, he routinely fucked my shit up every time I got out of hand. And I love him for it. This message has been edited by whiskey@throttle on March 05, 2001 at 03:55 PM Posted by Sithiee on Mar. 05 2001,00:03
i dont really recall if my parents ever hit me, but im proud to say they never really had to...at this point they know id call child abuse on them, cause im just a bastard like that, but its not an issue...but parents seriously do need to learn to discipline their kids, even if nonviolently. if you give in once, they will expect it every time after that. if you ever want to spoil your kids, it cant be because they asked for somethin, you said no, and they begged. as far as im concerned, if its been said once, its been said 1000 times. best story i heard, was how some guys kids were being brats, and they were driving to disney world, and he threatened them with "if you dont stop, im turning this car around and were going back home" and they didnt stop, so when they were almost there (from NY) he turned the car around, went home, and when they got there, asked them if they were gonna be good if they went back. now that is high quality. i would never question that mans ability to follow through with a threat ever again.
Posted by shiznit on Mar. 05 2001,01:12
Well Andy Williams is going to be charged as an adult. And he'll be found guilty obviously. Then he'll become the youngest person in California to get the death penalty. Other than that all I know is the California school system is pretty fuct up. That might have any relevance in this case however. Posted by Sithiee on Mar. 05 2001,01:35
how do you know he will get the death penalty?
Posted by solid on Mar. 05 2001,02:09
George Bush.
Posted by j0eSmith on Mar. 05 2001,02:19
I dunno, he's young. I don't think even the coldest judge could sentance a kid to death. consecutive life sentances maybe. ------------------ Posted by damien_s_lucifer on Mar. 05 2001,02:44
quote: Um, I'm not all for violence or anything... my dad had a way of speaking very clearly, calmly, and rationally when I was in deep shit. That scared the fuck out of me My parents followed through on their threats... not as hardcore as turning around and going home, but enough. Our generation might not be so great either. One of my friends is HORRIBLE at disciplining her daughter... one night, the kid absolutely would NOT go to bed... my friend tried arguing, reasoning, threats, and guilt trips to no avail. My friend finally stomped out of the room saying "honestly, I don't know what I'm going to do with you." I picked up the kicking, screaming child, and unceremoniously dumped her in her bed. She crossed her arms and said "that didn't hurt." "Do you want it to? 'cause that be arranged," I said. She crawled underneath the covers and said goodnight and she never wanted to see me again, and fell asleep. And my friend was wondering how I got her to stop crying... heh... it was one of those moments when I realized I'm kind of like my dad Posted by shiznit on Mar. 05 2001,03:42
Well I think he should get the death penalty for shooting 15 ppl and killing 2. Then again j0eSmith you're probably right there because nobody would want to pass a sentence like that. politix and stuff
Posted by Observer on Mar. 05 2001,04:19
It's called clicking on the icon that says "quote" above a person's post.------------------ Posted by askheaves on Mar. 05 2001,05:07
< http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010305/us/school_shooting.html > Hey, any of you San Diego people... Any of you go to this school? Know anything the news doesn't? Was it one of you? Crazy kids. Always up to no good, I tells ya. Posted by diusFrenzy on Mar. 05 2001,05:12
what make's them "crazy"? Hell, if you read the in-depth reports on a couple of these school shootings (especially columbine), the amount of shit these kids put up with makes their actions far less than surprising..., it might be a mistake to simply dismiss them as "crazy".------------------ Posted by Sithiee on Mar. 05 2001,08:50
i dont really wanna get into the death penalty here, but how can we possibly judge him for killing other people if we kill him? is it ok for us to kill him because he killed the other people first?
Posted by Wolfguard on Mar. 05 2001,12:20
quote: Ok, This one first. Yes, He has shown that he is unable to be a human being and like every other critter that kills a human he needs to be put down for the safty and welfare of the rest of us. ------------------ Posted by Wolfguard on Mar. 05 2001,12:24
quote:
This is the issue. ------------------ Posted by damage on Mar. 05 2001,15:32
Dead on, Wolfguard. There has to be a certain level of fear and respect for the repercusions of your actions. You can't expect a child to mind his parents when all that they can say is, "Stop doing that...or...I'll say stop again." I'm not saying beating the shit out of a child is good. But sometimes, you need to have the option of spanking a child. My father never hit me. He never had to. He just instilled a level of fear that said I could only push so far before he would hit me. I sure as hell wasn't gonna push that hard. ------------------ "On a long enough timeline the survival rate for anyone drops to zero." Posted by askheaves on Mar. 05 2001,16:27
The biggest advantage that a parent has over their kid is a size advantage. As long as you cover your nuts, you should be able to intimidate a child into cooperating, if they know you're serious. However, that's usually not all that effective.It's effective in the short run to whup on a kid, and it's effects are immediately seen. Direct Causal-Effectual relationship is produced. However, that effect is short lived, and the child will reclude themself for a couple weeks. After that, they will extend back to those boundries that they know and push some more. (most of this is modern child psychology crap, with no final verdict in my mind) I would think that the most effective way to rear a kid is to show them that there are boundries, and that there are consequences... and those consequences aren't always going to come from you. For example, a child throwing a temper tantrum. If they're old enough to understand, explain to them that the only person that is looking dumb is them. Nobody is feeling sorry for them, and that they're going to have to go sit in the car until they can behave. My dad, aparently, did that to me at a pizza place. I was being a little shit, and didn't believe that he would remove me from the resturaunt. He did, put me in the car, and went back inside to eat. He came out and got me later, and I behaved for the rest of the meal. Score one for the parents. I don't know. I don't think the only way to discipline is through spanking. Discipline can be a fun and creative exercise. Have fun with it >:-] Posted by askheaves on Mar. 05 2001,16:29
Oh, and as for the shooting, my friend put it best on IM today:Friend: The boy's mother, who is divorced from the father, lives in South Carolina. The New York Times said Linda Wells sobbed, "Oh, God. Why?" when told that her son was the suspected shooter. Friend: Why, it couldn't have anything to do with you living on the other side of the Goddamned country, could it? Posted by Wolfguard on Mar. 05 2001,16:39
you are right, it is not the only way.But with out that tool you can run out of options fast. Sometimes you need to swat a kid on the ass to get its attention. sometimes you need to backhand them. Next time they will remember the swat or the backhand like they remember not to touch the hot stove. ------------------ Posted by TallAssAzn on Mar. 06 2001,02:01
It's all in how often you give the child spankings or whatever you want to call it -- if you don't do it at all, there's a high chance they'll grow up to be little brats that get on everyone's nerves. However, this is not always the case. On the other hand, if you do it too often, it's classified as abuse, and that's no good.It's all in moderation. ------------------ Posted by damien_s_lucifer on Mar. 06 2001,03:33
quote: yep. the threat and/or use of physical violence should only be used if it is directly connected to what they did wrong - e.g. if their behavior posed a serious threat of injury. If a kid runs out in the street after you said not to, you're damn straight the kid needs a spanking. on the other hand, it is NOT cool to hurt your kid just because he's having a temper tantrum. there are plenty of ways to quiet a screaming child without giving in or resorting to violence. it's very similar to the way a nice person would calm down a pet... we're animals, duh. it's really too bad that parents assume their children are as manipulative and selfish as they are. kids don't have any sort of ideology, they just do what they can. if being manipulative/selfish works, that's what they'll do. Posted by Sithiee on Mar. 06 2001,05:13
wolfguard, as i said before, my parents never had a reason to hit me. the reason i would call child abuse is because i never would give them a good enough reason to hit me. besides, if you hit them for everything they do wrong, eventually that will lose all meaning too.
Posted by Southparksam on Mar. 06 2001,18:23
Quite frankly I agree with the first postWhat the hell ever happened to being plain crazy!! Jack the ripper didnt kill whores because they picked on him... He killed them cos he was ass-fisting-dog-shit-eating crazy!! Sam Posted by aventari on Mar. 07 2001,00:33
quote: I dont go to school there, but I do work in Santee, about a block away from the school (Santana High). I was at school myself when it happened, but when i got to work there was mad traffic everywhere, and our phone didn't work half the time because the lines were flooded. Sirens everywhere.. Its awful that these kids will go around shooting people randomly in the school. But on the other hand I can definately see where they're coming from. I got picked on more than my share, and depending on your personality, it can leave you feeling hopeless/worthless/etc. I can't honestly say I didn't fantasize about bringing my dad's 12 gauge to school and helping a few choice assholes meet their maker. BUT I never did. I always knew i had a future and didn't want to fuck it up. what happens when you loose that? ------------------ Posted by melk0r on Mar. 07 2001,00:45
you know what really kills me, is when people wonder "why did they do it?". i think this is a most foolish question. but for all of you who dont know wtf im talking about, here it is:the people that shoot up schools are always the ones getting the shaft. there is a 4'9" little jewish fuck in one of my classes who doesnt stop running his mouth. he calls me pussy, gay, and many other very intelligent insults, (im 5'11" and weigh 180) i find out later that he has gone to the principal. i get called down, and i get the talk. "why are you harrassing this fine young specimen" etc. not only this, but they double team me, so i cant get a word in edgewise (asst. principal and principal) so basically, he gets the principal to make me stop talking shit, because he wont himself. this frustrates me greatly, because not only now can i not kick his ass in school ( i get like ten days out, since ive been warned) the principal notified the police, so they have documentation, so i cant kick his face in out of school either. so he sits in class and flicks me off all day, calling me pussy, asking me why i wont fight him, and then at the end of the day runs down to the principal. i am most definitely getting the shaft here, because some little fuck wont/cant stop running his mouth. THIS is why people shoot up schools. they dont need more security measures or patrolling cops. not that i know the correct answer to this question, but i think that maybe if parents werent so blind to the fact that their kids shit DOES stink, or they need to constitute a fucking boxing ring in corner somewhere, where these kids can just wail upon eachother until one of them is a pulp of bloody brain matter. g'day. ------------------ Posted by Sithiee on Mar. 07 2001,00:54
his being jewish should warn you. yeah, maybe hes small, but little jews are a bitch if you really piss em off. second, did ya ever think if you ignored him, hed stop? it sounds boring and not likely to work, but your obviously responding to everything he says, of course hes gonna keep doing it...
Posted by ic0n0 on Mar. 07 2001,00:55
You really can’t justify what he did nor should you, he should get the max sentence, on the capitol punishment issue he is to young to get it, California forbids the execution of anyone under 18 when they committed the crime it’s law, even if he is changed as an adult. I was never hit as a child but I never needed it ether, my parents have said I was the easiest child they raised. Capitol punishment really isn’t about deterring crime because study’s show it doesn’t, ive taken many criminal justice Courses, it’s about retribution (not that I disagree with that) that is it’s point people who say otherwise are Deluding themselves about the facts, it's Simple clean eye for an eye.This message has been edited by ic0n0 on March 07, 2001 at 08:02 PM Posted by luth13n on Mar. 07 2001,04:44
What the...??HOW does being Jewish immediately make someone a bitch/fuck/etc? That's just crap, I'm sorry. What, does being Christian/atheist/Buddhist/Muslim/etc mark anyone immediately in any category? Argh, this kind of thing pisses me off. Sorry, I just have a lot of friends of different religions, and it pisses me off to see anyone given the smackdown JUST BECAUSE OF THEIR RELIGION! As to the school shooting, I myself have been picked on a lot, I wanted to kill the people I was picked on by in very painful ways... but there's a fine line between fantasizing and bringing a gun and shooting people who maybe never even had to do anything with one's pain. Posted by Sithiee on Mar. 07 2001,09:02
first off, shut up, im jewish. second, have you ever really pissed off a jew? if you do, you should be prepared for a beating. when i say thy can be a bitch if you piss him off, its like hes gonna kick your ass if you piss him off. grow up, not everything is an insult.
Posted by Sithiee on Mar. 07 2001,09:05
quote: maybe its the fact that ive lived with this kind of crap since 1st grade, but ive never felt any urge to kill someone just for picking on me. i honestly dont understand why anyone would wanna kill someone just for saying something. words dont matter. its just like the your momma jokes....anyone who gets offended by these is pretty stupid, because its not like their insulting you, their insulting your mom....eh, i dont get it... Posted by kudzu on Mar. 07 2001,09:28
quote: Only in USA.
Posted by melk0r on Mar. 07 2001,09:31
well luth13n, first off, i was practically steaming out the ears when i wrote that. him being jewish doesnt automatically make him a money grubbing, attention garbling little fuckhead who will probably end up to be my boss someday. and its good that you have so many friends and you stick up for them all so much. im proud. i am not about to judge someone by their face, or their religion, and if i called him a "motherfucking jew-bastard" to his face, i'd probably end up feeling awful about it.------------------ Posted by kornalldaway on Mar. 07 2001,14:36
the other day i heard on the news a comment made by Bush, and i thought what a fuchin retard. He claimed that wide availability of guns had nothing to do with what happened, it was all the way he was brought up. Would his ubringing matter if he wouldn't be able to get a gun? I don't think so! Even if people cross the line between fanasizing about shooting a buncha assholes in their school and actually doing it, they still nedd the means of doing so. Well those means just happen to be accessible as easy as a pack of gun, just gotta have enough cash.Also I think that "eye for eye" is a more or less understandable way if retribution, but it leeds to nothing and I think that death penalty is mostly useless. Only exception would be maniacs who cilled hundreds of people, those people have no means of ever realizing that what they did was wrong and there's no point for them to live as far as i'm concerned. About the jewish kid, do u really think his religion has anything to do with the way he behaves? I really doubt it. And if one claims that all jews are like that, then that person is a motherfuckin racist. I really hate racist people, of all the stupid and ignorant fucks those piss me off the most. This message has been edited by kornalldaway on March 08, 2001 at 09:41 AM Posted by damage on Mar. 07 2001,15:02
Thanks for keeping up, kornalldaway. We've already gone through the whole religion thing.Continueing on...No, if he didn't have access to a gun he would not have shot up his school. But he might have gone down to the local hardware store and bought a few items and made a bomb. Let's stop blaming inanimate objects for the actions of their possessors. I have access to guns. I am extremely accurate with them. I have owned several. I have also wanted to kill certain people that have pissed me off. I didn't, even though I had access to a gun. For fuck's sake people, let's start putting responsibilty where it belongs. Stop trying to have other people regulate what kids have access to and start taking an active role in humanity. Stop trying to reduce violence on television and start getting parents to take an active role in their childs lives. Stop trying to control guns and start trying to control the fuck heads that use them for the wrong reasons. Have we become so mindless that we're willing to blame the the instrument for the musicians poor playing skills? Goddamn, people, show a little backbone. Perhaps this kid didn't feel he was able to defend against that verbal (and possibly physical) attacks by his peers. SO FUCKING WHAT!?! We've all felt that way. It's called life. Guess what! It sucks, alot of the time. Get used to it. Firing a few round into a crowd isn't gonna change it. Maybe, if one person in that fucking place had been willing to stand up to help him when he was being picked on and pummel the dumb shits that were doing it, this would have been avoided. As for capital punishment, it sure as hell is a deterant. Maybe not to the next guy, but if you throw a convict into the chair and flip the switch, I guarentee he will never commit another fucking crime. "Guns don't kill people, it's those little tiny bullets that get you." ------------------ "On a long enough timeline the survival rate for anyone drops to zero." This message has been edited by damage on March 08, 2001 at 10:05 AM Posted by askheaves on Mar. 07 2001,15:18
quote: The guns just make them go REALLY fast. I'm impressed. Three amazing quotes in that post. And, I totally agree with you. If dad didn't own a .22, he would have found something a lot more lethal to go nuts with. Imagine 15 people shot, 13 surviving. Now imagine a pipebomb loaded with nails exploding in 'the quad' during lunch. How about a handful of throwing stars. How about electricity? How about gasoline, a match, and chain locks over the doors. A screwball will find a way to accomplish his mission. A gun is only one means. It's not the means that cause the damage. It's the screwball who implements them. They should put this kid in 'Minimum Security' prison like they did with Dahmer. Posted by SimplyModest on Mar. 07 2001,15:54
quote:
sorry, but i completely disagree.. if thats not what you meant, or if you were joking.. sorry.. Posted by askheaves on Mar. 07 2001,16:04
< http://www.foxnews.com/national/030801/school_threats.sml > It just doesn't end. It's good to know that there is more than one screwball in the country at any given time. Posted by ic0n0 on Mar. 07 2001,18:35
This just in 9,000 people are killed the u.s every year from handguns alone. I am from the u.s and that scares the crap out me as it should any other american.
Posted by damage on Mar. 07 2001,19:28
I think it should be pointed out though that the amount of handgun related homicides has been dramatically on decline from 13000-14000 in 1993 to 8000-9000 in 1999, while the amount of non-handgun related murders has remained without change.------------------ "On a long enough timeline the survival rate for anyone drops to zero." Posted by Observer on Mar. 07 2001,21:18
I wanted to respond to Sithiee's comment about ignoring the person. Having gone through elementary and middle school like that, ignoring someone just makes them increase what they do to get your attention. Very often it turns physical. I believe that's what the "picked on" people are dealing with that makes them snap.With regard to the smaller brat, I think one can draw a parallel from one of Chris Rock's routines. He says something to the effect of, "Nothing is more dangerous than a woman who knows you ain't gonna hit her." The kid knows your hands are tied, so he feels it is his god-given right to harass you and cry to mommy when you move an inch. I also agree with the idea that random shootings are bad. Know your target and eliminate it. For my next point I draw from Dennis Miller. (I use comedic routines because they are a wealth of societal commentary.) Anyway, some of you may say that fighting back against those who torment would just be sinking to their level, and they win. Maybe so, but I like to think that there will be a few less of them showing up to the awards ceremony. Anyway, I've said my piece. I'll sit back down and watch some more. ------------------ Posted by Sithiee on Mar. 07 2001,21:55
i think one thing that no one has pointed out yet, is that a lot of the schools where this happens are all american high type schools, there are defined cliques(is that how its spelled?) and they dont mingle much. the jocks pick on the geeks and thats how it is. a school structure like that is a problem all its own. i technically dont have any insight into that kind of place, because my school is so different. i know what its like to be a minority, because white people are easily a minority at my school. i dont know about cliques all that much, because people at my school dont really exclude each other, theres very little racial tension. people may try to make it up, but when a white guy fights a spanish guy, its just the odds that it will happen. youre just as likely to see a fight between 2 spanish guys. this is the kind of school that everyone should go to. granted, the staff isnt that great, but everyone for better or worse mostly gets along. if theres a fight starting, it gets stopped pretty fast. if someones getting picked on, someone is likely to say something, and even if they dont, very few people take it seriously....after reading what i just wrote, i realize i have jack insight into whats been going on with these kids, so i think i oughta stay out.
Posted by luth13n on Mar. 07 2001,22:08
I agree with Observer's comment on how ignoring people doesn't stop them--it only makes them try harder. I know this from experience, unfortunately...So why do these school shootings happen? I don't know. Maybe it's because it seems that in America there is so much desentization towards violence, whether it be because of the media, or because people in general are so far removed from the reality of death, unlike other countries which are, for example, at war. This still doesn't explain relatively peaceful places like Canada though. What I do know though is that it's kind of scary to go to school sometimes--especially with the demented emergency procedures the administration has thought up for us. Damn, I hate that. Posted by ic0n0 on Mar. 07 2001,23:23
I have been picked on most of my life until I was a junior in high school, it stopped because I was then seen as smart and people wanted to be my friend because I knew the answers to all the tests and I grew on them like a cancer or fungus. If I hadn't been a pacifist and a bad fighter I would have liked to go ape on a few people nothing lethal of course but just a good ass kicking.
Posted by Dark Knight Bob on Mar. 07 2001,23:48
"14 year old terrorists win"------------------ Posted by solid on Mar. 08 2001,01:32
And he was carrying a glock, no? That's not right.
Posted by solid on Mar. 08 2001,01:55
— A 13-year-old boy was charged with inducing panic after officials at a middle school in Cincinnati found a list of names of 22 students and school officials who were supposedly the targets of a nuclear bomb. Let's see, childish, unreal, stupid. And I'm only 14. Posted by Wolfguard on Mar. 08 2001,11:05
quote: thats 3.3E-5 percent of the total population.(think i did that right) how many die in car crashes? You going to stay out of a car too?
This message has been edited by Wolfguard on March 09, 2001 at 06:14 AM Posted by Sithiee on Mar. 08 2001,11:46
well said Wolfguard, thats what i tell my parents when they tell me i shouldn't flick off people who dont know how to drive because they might get out of the car and shoot me. SO WHAT??? even if they did try, id say i have a decent chance of moving the car before they can do so, and even then, the chances are so small, that the satisfaction i get from telling a dumbass to learn how to drive is worth it.edit: changed should to shouldnt...very big difference... This message has been edited by Sithiee on March 09, 2001 at 06:47 AM Posted by jiggyfresh on Mar. 08 2001,15:19
`I even mentioned Columbine to him. I said I don't want a Columbine here at Santana. But he said, `No, nothing will happen, I'm just joking,''' Reynolds said.i would have been suspicious if they kid said 'nothing will happen' i mean nothing implies that there is a something and happen means happen so its like..something CAN happen..if he just said he was joking then i wouldnt have been so suspicious Posted by a.out on Mar. 08 2001,16:30
quote:
Just a thought... Posted by ic0n0 on Mar. 10 2001,11:22
If you compare the deaths from handguns in the u.s. compared to western Europe which has more people there are still a hell of a lot less deaths from handguns in W.E, it’s availability of handguns, I’m not saying people shouldn’t own guns because that’s your right, but doesn’t it seem that we should try to cut down the violence and stop these needless deaths. I think a good way to do this is to would be to offer cheap trigger locks or gun boxes (ones that work) to people, this won’t stop criminals because they wouldn’t use the locks anyway but I am concerned about the kids getting there hands on the weapons, I think that when a gun is not in use it should be locked up. Your 42 times more likely to kill a friend or family member when you have only one handgun in your house. Once again don’t ban the guns just make it easy for people to lock them up.------------------ This message has been edited by ic0n0 on March 11, 2001 at 06:25 AM Posted by RenegadeSnark on Mar. 11 2001,02:37
quote: how deliciously evil! seriously, i don't think that people deserve "neutralization" in these instances, but hell, if there's no way you're not going to fire off a few rounds at some people, i guess this is valid. Posted by askheaves on Mar. 11 2001,14:27
Does anybody remember about 5 or 6 years ago when all sorts of kids all over the country were planting pipe bombs in their schools? They were building them with nails and crap. I think for the most part, most were unsuccessful, but the idea is the same. It was the same kids, it was the same situations, it was the same anger. Guns have just become the newest socialy trendy way of dealing with the problems.
Posted by whiskey@throttle on Mar. 11 2001,14:54
Yes. I know a kid who went to jail for pipe bombs. He served six months with the California Youth Authority. It was probably for the best. He was (is?) very crazy...hormonal imbalance, you know. We used to make some pretty wicked bombs though. One time, we made one sooo big, it billowed into a gigantic mushroom cloud. I was standing about fifty yards away and still felt the thud in my chest. It put cracks in the asphalt. Fuckin' awesome. Posted by kuru on Mar. 11 2001,22:03
i have a few things to say here, so bear with me if i wander a bit.one: guns do not kill people. nobody dies at the will of a gun. people die because of who is using the gun. therefore, nobody has ever died 'from a handgun'. they've died from assholes with handguns. two: less kids are killed by people with guns than drown in swimming pools. less people overall in the united states are killed by someone with a gun than are killed by mistakes made by doctors in hospitals. shooting deaths just make better ratings grabbers. three: there is a difference between hitting a kid, and beating a kid. sometimes, they need to be hit to get their attention. it wounds their ego more than anything. i can count on one hand the number of times i was hit for something as a kid, because when i was, i learned my lesson. four: not only do parents need to start taking charge of disciplining their kids, but they also need to cut out this shit in schools about 'if you punish my kid for being bad, i will sue you.' teachers need to regain control of classrooms. five: i can understand why these kids snap and start killing people. i was a scrawny, buggy eyed, glasses wearing geek as a little kid. the preppies and jocks were encouraged to pick on kids like me, and ignoring it only made it worse. i took it on the chin for seven years, every day, and then picked up a chair and put a stop to it. i hit the leader-bully in the head. i didn't go so far as to kill someone, but who's to say i wouldn't have if it had continued until i was 15 or 16? six: this has little to do with race. it has to do with pushing a human being past his breaking point with unrelenting constant abuse. hearing this kid's few friends talk about the torment he went through every day because he was 'skinny' and how they 'constantly made fun of his ears' makes me wonder a few things. where the hell are the teachers and principals? why is all this harassment by the 'beautiful people' condoned, ignored, or encouraged? and with this kind of stuff happening to those kids that are different on such a regular basis, i'm amazed there aren't *more* shootings. i don't think he handled the situation right. i think he went too far in fighting back, but i do feel really fucking sorry for this kid. society (read: we) failed him. turned him into a killer. and that's gotta stop. ------------------ Posted by Prometheus on Mar. 12 2001,02:57
quote: Hm. Seems that just one handgun isn't going to do the trick, then. Seriously, though... 42 times more likely than what? And I believe what everyone has been saying is that before there were guns, there were bombs. I guess you can take your pick between the two, but this "gun problem" is the same as the "drug problem." It needs to focus on the children. Not the guns. ------------------ Posted by Sithiee on Mar. 12 2001,08:50
im not anti guns, but the drug problem is so very very different. as long as people keep their drugs to themselves, its not a problem. a gun is a tool for killing/wounding, really, granted, a lot of times this should be in self defense or whatnot, but drugs are not the same.
Posted by Dark Knight Bob on Mar. 12 2001,13:16
guns dont kill people? well it seems to me that if you take away the guns then it makes it a lot harder for you to actually kill someone. sure you got knives and stuff but the fact that you say that its the people who kill people not guns ..... i dont think so i mena look at it this way kid no.1 has a stick kid no.2 has a sawnoff shotgun both have the same amount of will to kill put them up against a kid no.3 and unless no.3 has an inability to move (he has noi arms or legs) then it seems pretty damn obvious which kid is gonna find it the easiest to kill someone. i mean its pretty much a case of kid no.2 being in /god mode.although i do agree about the parents having to accept more responsibility of their children but in general that more realates to them not being allowed to watch 18 rated films when they are 12 ------------------ Posted by Wolfguard on Mar. 12 2001,14:27
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Yes, the gun makes it easier to do the job but your little rant just proved that it was not the gun doing the killing. NEXT! ------------------ Posted by Wolfguard on Mar. 14 2001,10:25
You have to love it when you bitch-slap someone with their own argument so hard that it kills the thread.------------------ Posted by damage on Mar. 14 2001,18:14
"The NRA say's 'Gun's Don't kill people. People kill people.' But I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and went BANG! I don't think you'd kill a whole lot of people. You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart for that to do it. I think they should try that though. Just go, BANG! BANG! BaBoom! BANG!!!"-Eddie Izzard. ------------------ "On a long enough timeline the survival rate for anyone drops to zero." Posted by Wolfguard on Mar. 15 2001,12:18
Izzard is great...for and action transvestite.atleast he is not a weirdo transvestite. ------------------ Posted by cr0bar on Mar. 15 2001,15:56
"Guns don't kill people" is a cop-out. Read up on the < Straw Man Argument >.Nobody is trying to suggest that guns are sentient entities trying to kill people. That's obviously crazy. What gun control advocates (like myself) for the most part are saying is that if you're going to own a gun, be responsible with it and lock the motherfucker up! Guns (like cars) should be registered, and not everyone should be able to operate them! (Especially in public areas) It's fine if you want to own a lethal weapon, but just because the constitution grants you the right to do so doesn't mean you should be able to buy and sell them anonymously, carry them around everywhere, or otherwise behave irresponsibly with them. As far as self-defense goes...maybe. I have a hunch that if you compiled all the incidents where some kid blew his or his friend's brains out with daddy's gun by accident, and the incidents where someone successfully defended their home and family from an armed intruder, the former would far outnumber the latter. Posted by askheaves on Mar. 15 2001,16:58
I did some hanging out this last week at a gun shop with a range, and happened to show up on friendly competition night. Great! I joined in just for fun.The people in this group were fun, nice people, but were a little weird. Most drove pickup trucks, and I believe they were the only dozen people in Tucson with southern accents. Odd. They started a conversation about carrying. One guy keeps his in a holster at his side, uncovered and clearly visible, and so does his wife. He's proud of it. He takes it everywhere. Some of the others do the same, but stay a bit more inconspicuous. I don't think I could carry a gun into a McDonalds or Pizza hut. What I do appreciate about these folks is the incredible care taken to keep accidents from happening. Guns are unloaded when walking around. Breaches are open for inspection. Ear and eye protection. When the round is over, the clip must be ejected, the live round ejected, and the action open for inspection before the range becomes clear to reset. The scariest people are those who buy guns because they are paranoid about getting robbed, or whatever (even though the most expensive thing in the house is the gun), but they don't take it out and practice shooting and safety procedures. It sits in a drawer, loaded and chambered, safety off, right next to the inhaler. Their kids know they have a gun, they don't know safety, whatever. Those are the household accident cases. As for this kid, he went shooting with his dad a lot, and his dad kept the guns locked up. Kid knew how to get to them. And who would blame the dad on the gun issue? He's doing a hell of a lot better than most gun owning parents. I wouldn't suspect my 15 year old kid would go into the cabinet and bring a gun to school... unless I knew that he had a problem recognizing consequences... and who's fault is that? Posted by Psychosomatic_plague on Mar. 15 2001,21:38
the sun is setting on the centuryand we armed to the teeth we're all working together now to make our lives mercifully brief schoolkids keep trying to teach us what guns are all about confuse liberty with weaponry and watch your kids act it out every year now like christmas some boy gets the milkfed suburban blues reaches for the available arsenal and saunters off to make the news and the women in the middle arelearning what poor women have always known that the edge is closer than you think whe your men bring the guns home look at where the profits are open fire on hollywood and if i hear one more time I dig Ani ------------------ Posted by Dark Knight Bob on Mar. 15 2001,21:56
oh yeah well what about megatron he was a gun and he killed optimus prime. time for some bitch slapping of your own buttmunch boy!------------------ Posted by ic0n0 on Mar. 15 2001,22:34
Ah yes the transformer argument, but really how hard is it to fucking lock up your gun?
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