Shooting at Virginia Tech Campus

[Lord of The Curry]

G.W and Laura are flying down to the school today to be with the students and their families.

 

That sound you're hearing from the southern states? It's Louisiana screaming "Fuck you".

[Guest Eagle Man]

Virginia is a southern state, you tool.

[TheShooter]

Good point. I didn't see Laura Bush rushing down to Nawlins after "Hurricane Karina."

[Ripper]

Because there is no difference between a flood site that is still very dangerous and the site of a shooting.

[Dobbs 3K]

The Fred Phelps group will be protesting at the funerals.

 

http://www.godhatesamerica.com/

 

What scum. I think it's time for them to have their own "incident."

[TheShooter]

Not saying it's the same thing. Just making the point that, in general, the response by government officials to Katrina was a bit lackluster on many different levels.

 

But I don't want to turn this into a Katrina thread.

[Hasbeen1]

Curry can't help himself, I see from reading on here.

[Hasbeen1]

The Fred Phelps group will be protesting at the funerals.

 

http://www.godhatesamerica.com/

 

What scum. I think it's time for them to have their own "incident."

 

 

I can see them getting a royal asswhipping for it, this time.

[EricMM]

This is no different because there was practically no damage to the campus...

 

Apples and oranges.

[Guest Eagle Man]

And besides, if he fucked this up too, he'd catch hell for not going ANYWHERE. Can you go live vicariously thorugh fictitious black men in your kickboxing folder or something?

[Open the Muggy Gate]

The Fred Phelps group will be protesting at the funerals.

 

http://www.godhatesamerica.com/

 

What scum. I think it's time for them to have their own "incident."

 

 

I can see them getting a royal asswhipping for it, this time.

Remember what I said about Jack Thompson?

 

 

MULTIPLY THE PUNCHES TIMES INFINITY

[vivalaultra]

So, the shooter was a guy named Cho Seung Hui, a V-Tech senior. He was in a playwriting class. Here is a link with a couple of the plays that he has written. I'm currently reading 'Richard McBeef'!

 

 

Thanks

 

Cho Seung Hui Plays

[EricMM]

Yeah, don't go looking for any conspiricies here.

 

Kid was mad crazy.

 

Reading that stuff, it's pretty clear.

[World's Worst Man]

I'm skeptical about the authenticity of those scripts, because they look like something a 12 year old would write. But if they're real, that guy was out of his friggin mind.

[Edwin MacPhisto]

I'm such a better 23-year-old English major than he was.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Curry is so hilariously oblivious.

[LaParkaMarka]

I just read Richard McBeef too. That was just bizarre. When I read the preface by his classmate, I thought it couldn't have been that bad, but that was just batshit. Is Mr. Brownstone basically the same, lots of yelling and craziness?

 

Edit - Read Mr Brownstone. It was bizarre, but much less crazy than Richard McBeef.

[EricMM]

I wonder.

 

I wonder who this kid's parents are?

 

I say kid like he wasn't 23, but he was sure infantile in his people skills. That or unbalanced like I dunno what...

[Edwin MacPhisto]

I mean, they're not that crazy. Just terrible and hugely retarded, and yeah, probably something a pissed-off 15 year-old would write. I certainly wouldn't institutionalize a kid because he wrote a shitty faux-Albee play with Guns n' Roses lyrics. I would give him an F, though, and show copies of his shitty play to my friends.

 

I think what's always been most fascinating to me about shooting sprees is that they don't happen more often. As long as a person has no regard for his or her own life, he/she can get down to some bad stuff really quickly and easily in any number of public spaces.

[Atticus Chaos]

I mean, they're not that crazy. Just terrible and hugely retarded, and yeah, probably something a pissed-off 15 year-old would write. I certainly wouldn't institutionalize a kid because he wrote a shitty faux-Albee play with Guns n' Roses lyrics. I would give him an F, though, and show copies of his shitty play to my friends.

 

I think what's always been most fascinating to me about shooting sprees is that they don't happen more often. As long as a person has no regard for his or her own life, he/she can get down to some bad stuff really quickly and easily in any number of public spaces.

 

 

Most people like that are more likely to just take their own lives and leave it at that. But, really, you have to be driven by a lot of hate to be willing to take dozens of innocent people with you.

[Big Ol' Smitty]

I really don't get the "everyone should carry guns" argument.

 

Let's say you see somebody shooting, so you pull your gun. Now you have two people shooting at each other.

 

Along comes person 3, with their gun, who sees person 1 and 2 shooting at one another. Who does person 3 shoot at?

 

How does this not devolve into a massive firefight where nobody knows who is shooting at whom?

 

(FWIW, I'm pretty anti-gun control, but this idea that we're gonna have a million Clint Eastwoods running around seems ridiculous to me.)

[Giuseppe Zangara]

smitty, a scenario more likely than a Mexican standoff is some drunken, armed college student shooting at another one during an argument over a sports team/a girl/generally being a nuisance; or some lousy, intoxicated/high shithead mad at his professor over a bad grade, killing him and who knows who else. The booze/drugs factor is important here, as college students are usually one or the other. They don't need guns.

[Slayer]

Bros with guns

 

'nuff said

[World's Worst Man]

To quote Lazlow from Grand Theft Auto "You know, if more people had guns, we'd have less shootings in this country."

[Dobbs 3K]

To quote Lazlow from Grand Theft Auto "You know, if more people had guns, we'd have less shootings in this country."

 

Yes, but has that actually been proven anywhere?

[World's Worst Man]

No, I'm just mocking people who think that (the line in GTA3 was also mocking). It's just common sense that arming more people would actually NOT lower the amount of shootings, but rather it would dramatically increase them. Some people just live in a dream world I guess.

[Dobbs 3K]

OK, thanks for clarifying.

 

I don't know...I think we take for granted that the rest of the world does have violent instances similar to this happening on a regular basis. We have it pretty easy in America when it comes to this sort of thing.

[Big Ol' Smitty]

OK, thanks for clarifying.

 

I don't know...I think we take for granted that the rest of the world does have violent instances similar to this happening on a regular basis. We have it pretty easy in America when it comes to this sort of thing.

 

 

See Iraq, for instance.

[Guest]

Or Chechnya, West Africa, Southeast Asia, India...

 

We're lucky that we live here. There's not many other places I'd like to live in on this Earth, taking all things into consideration.

[World's Worst Man]

School shootings certainly aren't as bad as say, wars of aggression or ethnic cleansing. Not to make light of any loss of innocent life, but it does add some perspective.