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22 people dead at the college
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I don't get it, why not just kill himself and let others live
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Originally Posted by mac128k-1984
I don't get it, why not just kill himself and let others live
Depends what his motive was. A few weeks ago there was a shooter at the University of Washington campus who killed his girlfriend before he killed himself. It could be possible the shooter had specific targets.
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Originally Posted by mac128k-1984
why not just kill himself and let others live
There has to be mental illness involved. The only other alternative is pure evil.
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That's crazy... Similar to what happened at the University of Texas in the 60s...
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Man. Not again.
This is terrible. 20 innocent people.
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Had the university and the state respected the 2nd amendment right to bear arms, this tragedy probably would not have occurred.
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Originally Posted by anonymac
Had the university and the state respected the 2nd amendment right to bear arms, this tragedy probably would not have occurred.
Noooooooooo not this again...
BTW this probably won't fly as a sig.
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Originally Posted by mac128k-1984
I don't get it, why not just kill himself and let others live
Agreed. This is just like Columbine again....
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Up to 32 dead now? (From what I'm hearing...)
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Originally Posted by Gossamer
Noooooooooo not this again...
too late...
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Originally Posted by anonymac
Had the university and the state respected the 2nd amendment right to bear arms, this tragedy probably would not have occurred.
way to go.
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Virginia Tech has that G5 supercluster, right? So in a way the Mac community does have a bond there...
Terribly sad, and let's set all politics aside for a bit, please.
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My post wasn't about politics. Our right to bear arms isn't being debated, since it IS our already established right. I was simply pointing out that the disrespect of that right by the state and the university set up the conditions to allow this kind of senseless tragedy to occur. If our right to bear arms had been respected, it would have provided an effective deterrent.
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Originally Posted by anonymac
My post wasn't about politics. Our right to bear arms isn't being debated, since it IS our already established right. I was simply pointing out that the disrespect of that right by the state and the university set up the conditions to allow this kind of senseless tragedy to occur. If our right to bear arms had been acknowledged, it would provided an effective deterrent.
Didn't they establish the no guns on campus rule because they'd already had previous shootings?
So apparently allowing students to have guns worked REAL well for them in the past.
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Whatever, can we just not response to that crap? It's total troll.
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Originally Posted by goMac
Didn't they establish the no guns on campus rule because they'd already had previous shootings?
So apparently allowing students to have guns worked REAL well for them in the past.
And obviously banning them has been such a vast improvement...
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Originally Posted by Mithras
Whatever, can we just not response to that crap? It's total troll.
It's trolling to introduce a completely relevant topic and potential solution to an obvious and horrible problem?
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Originally Posted by nonhuman
And obviously banning them has been such a vast improvement...
Obviously if they had issues when guns were not banned and they had issues when guns were banned, students being able to carry guns doesn't have anything to do with anything.
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Originally Posted by anonymac
My post wasn't about politics. Our right to bear arms isn't being debated, since it IS our already established right. I was simply pointing out that the disrespect of that right by the state and the university set up the conditions to allow this kind of senseless tragedy to occur. If our right to bear arms had been respected, it would have provided an effective deterrent.
I was just thinking the same thing before clicking the thread and reading your post, anonymac. We're on the same page. Unfortunately, this episode will be used by the leftist demagogues to call for more gun control.
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This is awful. I can't imagine what would go through someone's mind to decide that today they're going to go down to school and just start firing off rounds.
Awful.
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Originally Posted by anonymac
If our right to bear arms had been respected, it would have provided an effective deterrent.
How in the hell do you think that?
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Originally Posted by Gossamer
Noooooooooo not this again...
I stand by my statement.
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Originally Posted by design219
How in the hell do you think that?
If guns weren't banned on campuses, there would have been someone to shoot back at the shooter.
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Originally Posted by anonymac
My post wasn't about politics. Our right to bear arms isn't being debated, since it IS our already established right. I was simply pointing out that the disrespect of that right by the state and the university set up the conditions to allow this kind of senseless tragedy to occur. If our right to bear arms had been respected, it would have provided an effective deterrent.
That total, utter bullshit. Just carrying a weapon does not, in any way, guarantee that you can actually use it properly in an emergency situation such as this. If anything, the average person is in no position at all to stop a situation like this without the likelihood of additional life being lost being extremely high. Real life is not TV - it is harder, much harder, than you seem to think to stop a madman with a gun.
And there is no disrespect happening here either - but you probably know that anyway but chose to ignore it. A university is a private place and any private place can choose to ban guns.
Don't use a tragedy to make a political point. That's just sick.
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god damn it, all you gun people shut the **** up and look at what the hell happened. people got shot and they ****ing died. that's more important now then your "oh give me a gun and i'll shoot a terrorist bullshit" look past yourselves just this once and think of the people who got shot. god damn
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Originally Posted by anonymac
If our right to bear arms had been respected, it would have provided an effective deterrent.
THIS not time nor the place for these type cold and insensitive statements. Besides its kind of reckless to go and blame the school for this when its clearly some sort of nut job who did this.
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Originally Posted by brassplayersrock
god damn it, all you gun people shut the **** up and look at what the hell happened. people got shot and they ****ing died. that's more important now then your "oh give me a gun and i'll shoot a terrorist bullshit" look past yourselves just this once and think of the people who got shot. god damn
You been drinkin again?
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b.o.t: it really is sad what happened. makes you think if you know someone that goes to a school that has a shooting, what would you be doing or thinking after you hear the news.
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I'm pretty sure that, even if you're allowed to carry guns, you wouldn't be allowed to bring one on campus. So the 2nd Amendment argument is a moot point.
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^ Berklee doesn't allow you to carry a gun, and if you're caught, well, good bye from Berklee
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So sad, we as a nation seem hell bent on making sure that our rights to own guns remain intact. Guns have one purpose - to kill and I'm not sure why people seem so fixated to own them.
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I doubt any college or university in America allows gun packin' on campus.
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Originally Posted by mac128k-1984
So sad, we as a nation seem hell bent on making sure that our rights to own guns remain intact. Guns have one purpose - to kill and I'm not sure why people seem so fixated to own them.
If you could get rid of ALL guns, that would be great. Then we could go back to swords, and macgeek would be very happy. But you cannot do that, so don't dare think of coming for mine.
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I'll talk about the politics involved later.
Right now I'm just saddened and angry that this happened again, except on a larger scale. My heart goes out to the family of the victims, as well as their friends. This can't be good for any of the students there either. They'll never feel safe in their dorms and classrooms again.
I hate the things that go on in this world.
[EDIT]: Also, this happened just 4 days shy of the anniversary of the Columbine Massacre. Easy to remember, as Columbine happened on my birthday.
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I can't imagine a school in western Europe that wouldn't expel you as a student for bringing a firearm on campus. Excepting perhaps the faculty of biology at the University of Iceland, where it would be presumed you're just returning from a foxhunt. True story.
My sympathies to the victims and their families. To those worried for their loved ones. Don't shoot people, kiddies. It doesn't solve anything.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
Then we could go back to swords, and macgeek would be very happy.
he doesn't use his. He just "admires" it, according to him.
Originally Posted by design219
Any Virginia Tech alums here?
seriously, if anyone here that has gone to VT, what are your thoughts on this?
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Originally Posted by brassplayersrock
seriously, if anyone here that has gone to VT, what are your feelings?
I'm sure they're just peachy
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Originally Posted by brassplayersrock
god damn it, all you gun people shut the **** up and look at what the hell happened. people got shot and they ****ing died. that's more important now then your "oh give me a gun and i'll shoot a terrorist bullshit" look past yourselves just this once and think of the people who got shot. god damn
If one person in the crowd had been carrying a gun and properly trained to use it, the shooter could have been taken down within moments of him opening fire. People probably still would have been injured and maybe died, but far fewer. And rather than a horrible massacre to mourn, we'd have a hero to celebrate.
But yeah, I can see how that would suck and be so bad. Isn't it just horrible the way people will take horrible events and try and use them as motivation to improve things?
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Originally Posted by nonhuman
If one person in the crowd had been carrying a gun and properly trained to use it, the shooter could have been taken down within moments of him opening fire. People probably still would have been injured and maybe died, but far fewer. And rather than a horrible massacre to mourn, we'd have a hero to celebrate.
It's bad enough that one crazy on campus got his hands on a gun. Let's not open it up so that all the crazies can get guns.
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Call me a skeptic, but these things don't surprise me in the least. I'm amazed that 300 million people can get along as well as they do.
And I guarantee, if more people had guns this would happen more frequently... not less.
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Originally Posted by nonhuman
If one person in the crowd had been carrying a gun and properly trained to use it, the shooter could have been taken down within moments of him opening fire.
And the other (un-trained) people would pull their guns and kill a bunch more.
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Originally Posted by anonymac
Had the university and the state respected the 2nd amendment right to bear arms, this tragedy probably would not have occurred.
You're right, we should pass a law making it illegal to kill people with a gun on a college campus... oh, wait.
This is a tragedy. Now we can only sit back and wait for the political wolves to use it for their own purposes. (Or for the trolls, for that matter.)
Edit: I thought you were being facetious. This is, as you point out in other posts, a good example of how banning guns really doesn't prevent anything.
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