Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 10:04 amPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:41 pmPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 4:47 pmPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 7:26 pmRyudo wrote: I have personally hated guns since I nearly shot and killed my dad/mom. Since that day I just hated them and those numbers are nothing new but so very true.
Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 7:29 pm
Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 7:43 pmPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 7:44 pmbeedle wrote: tackle the root causes. deal with poverty, support for the mentally ill, remove the revenue of gangs. Don't give the killer publicity, and try to avoid simply taking a knee jerk reaction.
Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 7:48 pmmue 26 wrote:We've got poverty, mental illness and gangs in the UK too. But we don't have many of these mass shooting massacres, thankfullybeedle wrote: tackle the root causes. deal with poverty, support for the mentally ill, remove the revenue of gangs. Don't give the killer publicity, and try to avoid simply taking a knee jerk reaction.
Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 7:54 pm
Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 8:07 pm"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."
Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 8:24 pmPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 9:27 pmRyudo wrote: I have personally hated guns since I nearly shot and killed my dad/mom.
Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 10:07 pmPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 10:27 pmJeff wrote:Ryudo wrote: I have personally hated guns since I nearly shot and killed my dad/mom.
The gun can't pull the trigger by itself, so why is it the gun's fault?
Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 10:48 pm