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Another Campus Shooting

Centerfield Jun 06 2014 08:41 AM

Has it become so commonplace now that it is no longer the lead story on any news site? I think that is the saddest thing yet. http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/ ... ngxml.html The last few haven't even warranted threads here. I shake my head at this.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 06 2014 08:44 AM Re: Another Campus Shooting

Centerfield wrote: Has it become so commonplace now that it is no longer the lead story on any news site? I think that is the saddest thing yet. I was thinking the same thing. It's gone from being an outrage that we have to do something about, to something that's just a fact of life, like apartment fires and car crashes.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 06 2014 08:44 AM Re: Another Campus Shooting

Right? "School Shootings 2014."

Centerfield Jun 06 2014 08:53 AM Re: Another Campus Shooting

It's worth reposting: http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-way ... his,36131/

Edgy MD Jun 06 2014 09:02 AM Re: Another Campus Shooting

Most notable is that this wasn't a massacre because of one student armed with a handful of pepperspray and a heartful of courage apparently took the shooter down.

Edgy MD Jun 06 2014 09:09 AM Re: Another Campus Shooting

I have strange and baseless theory that the proliferation of these things can be tied to presidencies. Not based on any presidential policy --- apart from the liberal legality of gun ownership of course. But rather that they spike as a two-term presidency is rounding the corner in year six, and the polity and culture is so divided and fatigued from the same cycles of empty warring repeating itself that everybody feels impotent and the silicon chips inside the heads of would-be shooters everywhere start flipping with greater frequency. Needs work, I know.

metsmarathon Jun 06 2014 11:16 AM Re: Another Campus Shooting

i think that if we as a nation decided that the hours upon endless hours of breathless attention and fame and interest and notiety and discussion of manifestos and motivations and all that motherfucking other nonsese were doing nothing but emboldening and motivating the next wave of motherfuckicg coward, we might just be better off. why do we need to hear the name and seee the face and read the manifesto and watch the you tubes and ponder the instagrams and poke at the facebooks of these killers, giving them all that they ever wanted and more? our media rewards these shooters, and we reward our media with hits and clicks and views and viewers. don't show the picture. don't show the name. don't read the manifesto. make the shooter an anonymous nobody coward. not a celebrity, not a rockstar, not a magazine cover. not a beacon. not a pied piper for the next guy to follow.

Fman99 Jun 06 2014 12:34 PM Re: Another Campus Shooting

metsmarathon wrote: i think that if we as a nation decided that the hours upon endless hours of breathless attention and fame and interest and notiety and discussion of manifestos and motivations and all that motherfucking other nonsese were doing nothing but emboldening and motivating the next wave of motherfuckicg coward, we might just be better off. why do we need to hear the name and seee the face and read the manifesto and watch the you tubes and ponder the instagrams and poke at the facebooks of these killers, giving them all that they ever wanted and more? our media rewards these shooters, and we reward our media with hits and clicks and views and viewers. don't show the picture. don't show the name. don't read the manifesto. make the shooter an anonymous nobody coward. not a celebrity, not a rockstar, not a magazine cover. not a beacon. not a pied piper for the next guy to follow. This. I refuse to pay any mind to these stories, not out of disrespect to the victims, but in protest of the media glorification and obsession on the topic, at each occurrence.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 06 2014 12:36 PM Re: Another Campus Shooting

The more often this happens, the less attention each incident will get. I can understand the need to get into the mind of the killer, to understand the motivation or the psychic disorder that brought it on, but that's a job for cops and psychologists. The general public doesn't have to be involved.

Edgy MD Jun 06 2014 12:40 PM Re: Another Campus Shooting

Maybe, but there are just so many media out there, and creeps and naive kids find their way to it. And of course the truthers.

Ceetar Jun 06 2014 01:03 PM Re: Another Campus Shooting

It's also being used politically in 2nd amendment discussions.

Rockin' Doc Jun 06 2014 06:07 PM Re: Another Campus Shooting

metsmarathon wrote: i think that if we as a nation decided that the hours upon endless hours of breathless attention and fame and interest and notiety and discussion of manifestos and motivations and all that motherfucking other nonsese were doing nothing but emboldening and motivating the next wave of motherfuckicg coward, we might just be better off. why do we need to hear the name and seee the face and read the manifesto and watch the you tubes and ponder the instagrams and poke at the facebooks of these killers, giving them all that they ever wanted and more? our media rewards these shooters, and we reward our media with hits and clicks and views and viewers. don't show the picture. don't show the name. don't read the manifesto. make the shooter an anonymous nobody coward. not a celebrity, not a rockstar, not a magazine cover. not a beacon. not a pied piper for the next guy to follow. Exactly. Don't glorify the killers, honor the victims.

Edgy MD Jun 10 2014 01:21 PM Re: Another Campus Shooting

School shooting in Oregon today.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 10 2014 01:31 PM Re: Another Campus Shooting

Good grief.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 10 2014 01:33 PM Re: Another Campus Shooting

Wow… it's in Troutdale, a town I had never heard of until two days ago when I was doing some vacation planning. I'm going to be in that area five weeks from today.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 10 2014 01:49 PM Re: Another Campus Shooting

Morons involved the Vegas cop/Walmart-slaying were hanging around that guy's ranch getting off on the Big Government Is After Us and Our Guns nonsense.

Edgy MD Jun 10 2014 01:50 PM Re: Another Campus Shooting

And how crazy do you have to be to have gotten sent home from that shitshow?

A Boy Named Seo Jun 10 2014 01:53 PM Re: Another Campus Shooting

"Another shooting? OH, HEYYYYYY, did you hear Justin Bieber got baptized!?? SERIOUSLY!" -Americans from now on, apparently.

cooby Jun 10 2014 02:48 PM Re: Another Campus Shooting

42 years later, it's still the same https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbdlyrYrpGY Chicago - Dialogue Part I & II Part I Are you optimistic 'bout the way things are going? No, I never ever think of it at all Don't you ever worry, when you see what's going down? Well, I try to mind my business, that is, no business at all When it's time to function, as a feeling human being, will your Bachelor of Arts help you get by? I hope to study further, a few more years or so, I also hope to keep a steady high Will you try to change things, use the power that you have, the power of a million new ideas? What is this power you speak of and this need for things to change? I always thought that everything was fine, everything is fine Don't you feel repression just closing in around? No, the campus here is very, very free Don't it make it angry, where war is dragging on? Well, I hope the president knows what he's into, I don't know, I just don't know Don't you see starvation in the city where you live, all the needless hunger, all the needless pain? I haven't been there lately, the country is so fine, my neighbors don't seem hungry 'cause they haven't got the time, haven't got the time Thank you for the talk, you know, you really eased my mind I was troubled by the shapes of things to come Well, if you had my outlook, your feelings would be numb You'd always think that everything was fine, everything was fine