School shooting this morning

[jluv]

In this thread? No. But I see it all the time on this board, and if you don't, you truly have blinders on.

I was just wondering how your statement applied to this thread, Random Man. Just couldn't resist the urge to take a dig at non-believers?

[Vertnut]

Right. It is a form of stereotyping. Not all gun owners act the same. There are days (like these) that I bet everyone there prayed for someone else with a gun and level head to intervene.

You said "prayed". Quit starting a religious debate!

[Vertnut]

I was just wondering how your statement applied to this thread, Random Man. Just couldn't resist the urge to take a dig at non-believers?

Not at all. If you fit that mold, so be it. I ended that post with "to each his own". Take that as you will.

[petyweestraw]

From a buddy:

Another massacre in a Gun Free Zone. A tragedy for sure. I am in no way unsympathetic with the victims!

But while it should open the public's eye to the futility of creating these illusional safe zones it is already used as an argument that more gun laws are needed.

Nevermind that 60 million or so legally gun owning Americans DIDN'T shoot anybody today and the sheer statistical absurdity of ignoring that fact is mind boggling.

Nevermind the fact that even if we somehow managed to make the millions of legally owned guns in America dissapear overnight we'd still have the illegally owned ones which certainly will not be turned in voluntarily.

Nevermind the cold hard fact that we are getting all the illegal drugs we can swallow across a porous land border from Mexico making the Narco cartels filthy rich. So tomorrow it would be guns and dope.

Nevermind the simple fact that killing people is already illegal 7 ways under the sun and seems to have done nothing to prevent this tragedy.

Nevermind any logic at all!

I am indeed mad. Mad first at all at the crazy loon that did this, mad at the press for milking it for every bit it's worth because since it bleeds it leads, mad at the anti gunners which use it for their agenda and mad at any lawmakers suggesting feel good laws to "prevent" such things in future.

The only logical way to "prevent" this 100% is to completely disarm the entire country, create a police force that is millions strong and indeed at every corner and monitor everybody's intentions 100% of the time. What comes to mind is "Minority Report" and "1984". Anything less can not be 100% and thus not be certain to work. Who wants that?

[jluv]

Not at all. If you fit that mold, so be it. I ended that post with "to each his own". Take that as you will.

I don't fit that mold. I don't see a single post in this thread that would indicate that anyone here does. That's why your statement seemed so random (and somewhat desperate).

[Vertnut]

I don't fit that mold. I don't see a single post in this thread that would indicate that anyone here does. That's why your statement seemed so random (and somewhat desperate).

Then why are you sweating my post? Did I offend you? Religion (and the berating of it) was brought into this thread long before I did. Obviously, we also have different definitions of "desperate".

[2165 Turbo Rail]

They just said on NBC that Nancy Lanza was not a teacher at the school

[Vertnut]

They just said on NBC that Nancy Lanza was not a teacher at the school

This gets more strange as the hours go by.

[Denny]

They just said on NBC that Nancy Lanza was not a teacher at the school

This gets more strange as the hours go by.

Media too trigger happy to wait and verify anything these days.

Pardon the pun.

[Vertnut]

Media too trigger happy to wait and verify anything these days.

Pardon the pun.

If the media didn't hype these events so much, maybe they wouldn't happen so often. It seems like most of the nut-jobs crave the attention they know they will get?

[Denny]

If the media didn't hype these events so much, maybe they wouldn't happen so often. It seems like most of the nut-jobs crave the attention they know they will get?

Right. The Admin called for all flags to be lowered. Talk about giving psycos some hard-ons.

Media drives more influence than anything else in this world, currently.

[jluv]

Then why are you sweating my post? Did I offend you? Religion (and the berating of it) was brought into this thread long before I did. Obviously, we also have different definitions of "desperate".

It's not that big of a deal. Just forget I said anything. I won't "sweat" the post any longer.

[jluv]

If the media didn't hype these events so much, maybe they wouldn't happen so often. It seems like most of the nut-jobs crave the attention they know they will get?

Media drives more influence than anything else in this world, currently.

Sad but true. If word never got out, would this stuff still happen as often?

But as long as people crave more ghory details, the media will race to supply it. I don't see there being a real fix.

And really, I don't blame the media, or God, or Satan, or anyone else, for the evil committed by this scumbag. He takes all of the blame.

[Jester]

Now this may sound like a dick statement, but it's not meant to be. I don't need God to live a good life, to avoid doing bad stuff, to be happy. I'm fine at doing that without Him. And of you're referring to heaven, well, I guess I don't need the idea of heaven or hell to help sway my decisions, either. And frankly, if there is a God (I'm not an atheist - I do believe just about anything is possible outside of our human world and understanding), then I'll just hope (and maybe even have faith) that he's a really cool dude who will recognize that I lived a pretty positive life and was overall a nice guy, and he'll invite me in with a high five.

no bro, you dont need God to live a good life at all. I had a good life before I found him and had the same arguments and then one day my world changed. And yes, I do believe that God will welcome you in with a high five, to be honest.

[SMKR]

New info shows they may have a reason as to why he went on a shooting spree.