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I assume most of you have heard about this in the news today
EDIT - Current figure now stands at 32 students shot dead at Virginia Tech College, Blackburn, USA.
All Police have confirmed is there was a heavily armed, ammunition carrying Asian man - who was killed. However, they're looking for a possible accomplice.
Apparently it's the worst occurence of this type of shooting since the six students were shot at the Kent State University for their Anti-Vietnam protest, back at the start of the 70s.
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EDIT - Current figure now stands at 32 students shot dead at Virginia Tech College, Blackburn, USA.
All Police have confirmed is there was a heavily armed, ammunition carrying Asian man - who was killed. However, they're looking for a possible accomplice.
Apparently it's the worst occurence of this type of shooting since the six students were shot at the Kent State University for their Anti-Vietnam protest, back at the start of the 70s.
Story Here
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Alfonse wrote:
> Your country sucks as much as ours does!
Aye, although I'm not trying to defend America or even trying to compare it to the UK. I am however, trying to dispell terrorism as just being a politically motivated act. People terrorise eachother with other motives all the time and in all different countries too. It's unfortunate all the way around.
> Your country sucks as much as ours does!
Aye, although I'm not trying to defend America or even trying to compare it to the UK. I am however, trying to dispell terrorism as just being a politically motivated act. People terrorise eachother with other motives all the time and in all different countries too. It's unfortunate all the way around.
Sibs wrote:
> Ladybird wrote:
> No, I'm not. You've narrowed your own definition of terrorism
> to make your argument fit.
>
> Meh. Nowadays I'm sure most would not define school shootings as
> acts of terrorism. I have no idea what the 'dictionary
> definition' is, but given the context terrorism is always used
> in now, I wouldn't have thought people would class school
> shootings as such, unless carried out by a politically motivated
> group. I could be wrong...
>
The way I see it, dictionary definition's aside, terrorism is provoking fear through the act of violence, no matter what the underlying motivations are.
>
> Regardless, school shootings terrorise our nation with the fear
> that our children are not safe in the educational environments
> we are all mandated to send them to every day.
>
> But, statistically, a kid is probably FAR more likely to get run
> over, etc. than shot by a gunman/woman at school.
You'd think. That's pretty much the reason why it's so shocking to our society that all these shootings are even happening at all. It has instilled fear in all of us, terrorised parents with the belief that our children are not even safe in what should be the safest place.. where we send them almost everyday.
Just in my community alone, there has been a shooting in a middle school just up the road. A boy from a dysfunctional home was apparently reaching out for attention, for someone to recognise he was in turmoil at home. My children knew him and my nephew had breakfast with him that day.
This latest shooting at VA Tech comes on the anniversary of the Columbine massacre that occurred in Texas on April 20, 1999. It's the incident that set the precedence.. that seems to have spun a slurry of subsequent school shootings.
What I recall the most horrific of the accounts was the question those boys asked their peers before shooting them to death. It was "Do you believe in God?" Can you just imagine how terrified those children were? It makes me cry thinking of it.
> Ladybird wrote:
> No, I'm not. You've narrowed your own definition of terrorism
> to make your argument fit.
>
> Meh. Nowadays I'm sure most would not define school shootings as
> acts of terrorism. I have no idea what the 'dictionary
> definition' is, but given the context terrorism is always used
> in now, I wouldn't have thought people would class school
> shootings as such, unless carried out by a politically motivated
> group. I could be wrong...
>
The way I see it, dictionary definition's aside, terrorism is provoking fear through the act of violence, no matter what the underlying motivations are.
>
> Regardless, school shootings terrorise our nation with the fear
> that our children are not safe in the educational environments
> we are all mandated to send them to every day.
>
> But, statistically, a kid is probably FAR more likely to get run
> over, etc. than shot by a gunman/woman at school.
You'd think. That's pretty much the reason why it's so shocking to our society that all these shootings are even happening at all. It has instilled fear in all of us, terrorised parents with the belief that our children are not even safe in what should be the safest place.. where we send them almost everyday.
Just in my community alone, there has been a shooting in a middle school just up the road. A boy from a dysfunctional home was apparently reaching out for attention, for someone to recognise he was in turmoil at home. My children knew him and my nephew had breakfast with him that day.
This latest shooting at VA Tech comes on the anniversary of the Columbine massacre that occurred in Texas on April 20, 1999. It's the incident that set the precedence.. that seems to have spun a slurry of subsequent school shootings.
What I recall the most horrific of the accounts was the question those boys asked their peers before shooting them to death. It was "Do you believe in God?" Can you just imagine how terrified those children were? It makes me cry thinking of it.
I'm wondering why this thread is sticky.
Humanity is at fault for all human failures, regardless of source. Until mankind can shoulder responsibility for the consequences of its (more often lack of) actions, rather than blaming whoever it is who enacts said consequences, the state of humanity will continue to deteriorate.
Terrorism, suicide, bullying, deviancy. These are mislabelled as the problems, when in reality they are little more than symptoms.
You don't treat cancer with painkillers.
Humanity is at fault for all human failures, regardless of source. Until mankind can shoulder responsibility for the consequences of its (more often lack of) actions, rather than blaming whoever it is who enacts said consequences, the state of humanity will continue to deteriorate.
Terrorism, suicide, bullying, deviancy. These are mislabelled as the problems, when in reality they are little more than symptoms.
You don't treat cancer with painkillers.
Everpain wrote:
> I'm wondering why this thread is sticky.
Me too.
> I'm wondering why this thread is sticky.
Me too.
Ladybird wrote:
> Everpain wrote:
> I'm wondering why this thread is sticky.
>
> Me too.
> Everpain wrote:
> I'm wondering why this thread is sticky.
>
> Me too.
hi LADY BIRD hows you tonight are you single? im 19 and single from mark
psh
someone's hot for teacher :P
someone's hot for teacher :P
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