School Shooting Today

[upinsmokeuk]

sends shivers down my spine,peace and sympothy montreal

[Cotton_Mouth]

I'm a quebec resident and not too long ago a friend of mine told me that the girl who had died from the Damson College Shooting incident had graduated from his high school. And I realize that another friend of mine would talk about her all the time.. even though I have no direct connection to her I still heard stories, some laughs about her and such. Feels weird to know that a college near me was shot up and just a shit load of innocent people got injured. I was reading up on the shooter, he looks fuckin nuts man..

[Inferius]

How can you stab, slingshot or baseball bat double digits numbers of people? You might get one or 2. This is about guns. Society isnt ever going to do shit about reaching out to trenchcoat weirdos, and that shit seems a silly simplistic solution to mass shootings. All the counsellors in the world wont do jack shit, guy is evil, columbiners were evil, some group hugs just arent going to solve it.

It's not about reaching out to trenchcoat wierdos.
It's about stopping people from BECOMING trenchcoat wierdos.
Sure, it's easy to label an individual as evil. We all have the components in ourselves to become one of these people. When you and your friends were young and picked on by a bully, did it Never cross your mind to just take a gun and end his existence? I have the self-honesty to admit it did. However it's ACTING on those thoughts and emotions thats truly horrendous.
However, if you'd like, I'm sure we could develop some kind of psychological test for everyone to take that defines whether or not they're "evil". And as always, the right course of action would be to end their existence immediately upon conclusive results.
...Right?

[pwn3dy0]

This has nothing to to with guns, or gun laws or anything of the sort. People wanting to inflict pain and misery will allways find a way to do it. Bombs can be easily made at home as well as a number of ofther death bringing devices. Let's not debate an undying subject here. There's issues with those kids that will come to light eventually, but asking why they had a gun isn't the question to ask, it's why they decided to kill other human beings.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and thier families. I hope they can eventually find peace again.

great post.

[benagain]

How can you stab, slingshot or baseball bat double digits numbers of people? You might get one or 2.

1 sword = a handfull of deaths
1 bow and quiver of arrows = several more deaths from a safe distance
1 gun = however many bullets you can load and fire
1 fertilizer bomb = hundreds of deaths

I could go on but it doesn't matter. Changing the weapon that someone uses to hurt others doesn't make the killing more or less evil. Life is invaluable and deaths can't be measured. If we can prevent kids from wanting to destroy themselves and others, then we can actually do some good. Plugging a gopher hole might prevent him from comming out there, but another path will be made...