Disaster Averted
<div class="IPBDescription">School +bag+7 guns</div> Well unless you live near the town in PA where it happened you probably havnt heard the news. Dont tihnk it made CNN b/c this plot "failed".
One of my Police officer buddies told me in an email. I go to college in th town next to Wellsboro PA and my roomate is from there.
Apparently a kid brought a duffle bag filled 7 guns to school planning a mass murder. Luckily someone found out and told on him. The kid went into the bathroom and shot and killed himself.
Now the perhaps the most shockiing part (besides the fact of what the kid was planning) was that the potential shooter was 12 years old in the 5th grade. It seems they are getting younger all the time.
One of my Police officer buddies told me in an email. I go to college in th town next to Wellsboro PA and my roomate is from there.
Apparently a kid brought a duffle bag filled 7 guns to school planning a mass murder. Luckily someone found out and told on him. The kid went into the bathroom and shot and killed himself.
Now the perhaps the most shockiing part (besides the fact of what the kid was planning) was that the potential shooter was 12 years old in the 5th grade. It seems they are getting younger all the time.
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edit: and this just proves that public education is not only a waste of time and money but also a magnet for violence.
/The following is a tasteless joke, do not read if you are easily offended, do not ban if you are a moderator heh/
And why do all these kids think they need like 5+ weapons to get the job done, all you need is an AK with about 15 clips of ammo and teflon tipped bullets and you can take down the whole school using 3 round bursts.
/end of tasteless joke/
[edit] <------Public School education, and proud of it [/edit]
[edit] to quote Penny Arcade: Guns don't kill people, Gamers kill people [/edit]
To Speed2Dave "failed" as in not "bloody/tragic" enough for the crappy american media to pick up on it.
I mean before they start playing video games they're probably got something wrong with them in the first place. The judicial system is a joke. "OMG MY CLIENT R INNOCENT BECAUSE IT R TEH VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES CAUSING HIM TO BE MUCHA ANGRY! BRING ON ZE SOCCAR MUMS TO RIOT IN WASHINGTON!"
I agree. I think all the video games should be banned in USA.
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Now thats a curveball
(I live in Europe too!)
I blame the drugs.
I agree. I think all the video games should be banned in USA.
Luckily I live in Europe <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think it was more of a combo of bad parenting, poor choice of friends, depression, getting picked on in school, lack of postitve role models etc.
I wouldnt use video games or the media as a scapegoat for the lack of all the stuff I said above.
Anyway, I wrote a 10 page paper on columbine and how videos games were not responsible. Most of these people are messed up anyway, and due to the constant bullying + raging hormones + neglectent parents, they are bound to do something whether they play violent video games or not. Then when they do something, the media jumps on video games becasue they are an easy target, but why don't they jump on movies or books? They can be just as violent, why is it always the video games and music? The Surgeon general of the U.S. even officially said, with reports and studies, that video games do not encourage violent behavior.
*sigh*, this makes me so mad, now I have to go buy a sniper rifle and pick off people from the campus bell tower to let my agressions out...... (yeah, sarcasm)
What Video Games did mafia gangsters (some of the cruelest people on earth) play when they were growing up ? Oh, that's right, not a damn one.
The news is about 5 days old though, this happened last Wends.
So you can blame guns, drugs, media violence all you want, but it all stems from lack of parenting.
Good parents = no guns, no drugs, and violence + sex can actually be explained in a context that will keep the kid sane.
medications, bullying and parenting have ****ed up these kids, so much that we SHOULD get rid of the darn guns. i hold the view that a baseball bat lets out a lot more anger per fatality than a handgun. you ahve to be really really mad to injure two people with a bat, but with a pistol you can mow down a crowd before you feel satisfied. we need to get rid of guns and go back to the fifties when violence was all dealt with bats or knives, sure there was more kids in hospitals but a lot less in mortuaries.
medications, bullying and parenting have ****ed up these kids, so much that we SHOULD get rid of the darn guns. i hold the view that a baseball bat lets out a lot more anger per fatality than a handgun. you ahve to be really really mad to injure two people with a bat, but with a pistol you can mow down a crowd before you feel satisfied. we need to get rid of guns and go back to the fifties when violence was all dealt with bats or knives, sure there was more kids in hospitals but a lot less in mortuaries. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Like I said guns arnen't the issue, and back in the 50's people didn't work 55 hours a week, and usually there was a stay at home mother to take care of the children, and schools weren't filled with want to be gansters that watch too much mtv. Guns or no guns doesn't change the fact that there will always be violent people and that there is no direct way to stop a murder from happening if someone is deadset on doing it.
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Actualy in PA they made gun restrictions harder in hopes of qwuelling gun violence, what happened was that people started to carry around and use baseball bats. Fatalities actualy increased b/c victims in hospitals had to deal with people with crushed in skulks rather then a (most of the time ) non fatal bullet wound.
SOund theory, but a good idea gone bad lol at least in philidelphia.
Bad parenting/Psychological problem/Broken family/School bullies are just a few of the possible motivations for the child to want to kill half his classmates. Guns that can be easily obtained is another part of the problem.
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Actualy in PA they made gun restrictions harder in hopes of qwuelling gun violence, what happened was that people started to carry around and use baseball bats. Fatalities actualy increased b/c victims in hospitals had to deal with people with crushed in skulks rather then a (most of the time ) non fatal bullet wound.
SOund theory, but a good idea gone bad lol at least in philidelphia. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
that wasn't my quote, I'm not dumb enough to think violence was less of a problem in the 50's.
that wasn't my quote, I'm not dumb enough to think violence was less of a problem in the 50's. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yea i was know sorry, i was trying to get Zel but I quouted your quoute from him and it got messed up. <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
edit: and this just proves that public education is not only a waste of time and money but also a magnet for violence.
/The following is a tasteless joke, do not read if you are easily offended, do not ban if you are a moderator heh/
And why do all these kids think they need like 5+ weapons to get the job done, all you need is an AK with about 15 clips of ammo and teflon tipped bullets and you can take down the whole school using 3 round bursts.
/end of tasteless joke/ <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I hear ya.
Rember that shooting at some school, with the 2 kids in the dining area.
200 rounds and 14 injurys/casualties.
Thats poor.
Please tell me, why whites have most of the power and welth in the world yet one of the lowest population shares?