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Please keep the victims and their family members of the school shooting incident today in your thoughts.
This is truly an unimaginable tragedy.
This is truly an unimaginable tragedy.
Brother, it's not just being an American, it being a member of the human race in general.18 kids died at the school. 2 more at a hospital. I'm to the point where being an American really sickens me. I'm starting to hate it.
First off, heart and prayers to the victims and families. The devestated parents, with christmas presents already under the tree...
There is a special place in hell for people who murder children.
Brother, it's not just being an American, it being a member of the human race in general.
All we can do is try to live our lives as decent humans, reach out where we can, and try to keep the world moving forward, despite the asshats.
Meanwhile, if the RyanLanza is a tragireg then they missed it. It's been reported that it was his brother Adam that was the shooter.
TragiRegs are scum, unless used for memorial/donation sites. Period.
Peace on their little souls,
Cy
As an aside, does anyone else hear "kill, kill" on the background music played by abc/yahoo?
http://news.yahoo.com/video/abc-news-plus-special-report-220000361.html?_esi=0&nopharma=1
Interviewing a 10yo right after, "What did you see?"
Totally pathetic on their part.
One agency gets it wrong and the others jump on board so not to look stupid... how did that work out, guys?
Couldn't agree more. The Media of yesteryear is long dead and buried. They will do anything to bring the news out first, regardless of weather it's true or fabricated.The US major news media, with the exception of NPR and a few others, in their race to report the ongoing findings, absolutly embarassed themselves with misinformation.
Interviewing a 10yo right after, "What did you see?"
Totally pathetic on their part.
They have butchered the journalistic values they claim to hold so dear.
One agency gets it wrong and the others jump on board so not to look stupid... how did that work out, guys?
What a fuster cluck.
/rant
Again, heart and prayers to the children, staff, and their families.
Peace,
Cyberian
too much violence on TV and movies thanks to Hollywood. The Video Game industry is another culprit in teaching how to kill, maim and destroy from a very early age.
Thing is, 99.999% of people exposed to those things will keep clear lines between fantasy and reality and won't become mass murderers.
Some interesting comments from a forensic psychologist - not regarding this incident, but regarding the mistakes the media makes in covering similar incidents - http://upwr.me/NUWVfn. He's right - if they were to downplay it nationally, skip the 24/7 coverage (except locally, as needed), no photos of the killer, no discussions of the killer's background - it would be less ... "attractive" (?) to unbalanced people and make them less likely to relate to the killer (and subsequently try to copy or one-up them).
Agreed. You might wanna look this over, too. http://news.yahoo.com/evolution-superspy-bond-movies-more-violent-today-115744386.html
Nearly 300 murders in Chicago this year. Violence is simply too routine these days.
Morgan Freeman's brilliant take on what happened yesterday :
"You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here's why.
It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single *victim* of Columbine? Disturbed
people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.
CNN's article says that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next.
You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by turning off the news.
So why is this study correct when there are dozens of studies out there that say the opposite.
Which study is right and which is wrong? What does your common sense tell you?
Enlytend says: "Fear of god or prayer in schools doesn't ward off mental illness." That may be true but it's a much better idea than arming teachers with guns or putting armed guards inside schools as some are advocating.
How ARE the gun laws structured in Europe? Just curious.