Shooting of the Day
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I worked once with a guy who was in Iraq during the heat of things. He was the gunner on top of the Humvee with a huge 50 cal machine gun. He said that every time they would have to cross an intersection they would just point the gun 90 deg to the direction of their travel and fire without stopping (or looking) until the vehicle crossed this intersection. He wasn't looking - just like this guy wasn't looking - at what his bullets hit but simply spraying fire into an abstract void, just like this guy into equally abstract mass of people.
We forget how atrocities committed by individuals in the service of the state shape our communal psyche. It doesn't even matter if this guy went to the army (and was traumatized by his experience) or no as we all, by being part of this system, have our hidden traumas. I bet any half-baked psychologist and any half-talented sociologist could tell you and the confused massed this truth only if the TV/media only gave them the moment to explain things, but that would go against the easy to consume narrative. And so each time a tragedy like this happens, we sit like stupid chickens in their coop laying eggs, confused about why this stuff happens.
And maybe this confusion indeed is healthy from perspective of mental health, as maybe with that knowledge we would be surprised why stuff like this doesn't happen more often...
- and please don't start with it's because of guns as easy access to guns is only a tip of the iceberg.pr2
- because access to fully automatic high caliber assault rifles have nothing to do with this at all.moldero
- Remind me again how a psychopath can quickly and efficiently kill 50 people and injure hundreds without access to armaments or such?detritus
- Also not sure what your desensitised war narrative has to do with what's happened here - that shit's been with us forever.
War is not a new thing.detritus - >>Remind me again
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https://en.wikipedia…Peter - ok, but in relation to what pr2 is saying here, wherein you can do it remotely without directly facing your victims?detritus
- I mean, murder by knife's beocme popular in the EU with our terrorist chums, but even that requires you come close and personal to your victims.detritus
- As I'm sure you're aware from your BB gun gaming, there's a remoteness to gun usage that doesn't really exist elsehow. Especially from a 32nd floor....detritus
- >>ok, but in
>>without directly facing
Hold on let me move the goalposts a bitPeter - pretty insensitive of you pr2moldero
- >> I'm sure you're aware from your BB gun gaming
Also let me get personal right away, because discussing is hard.
Man you're pathetic.Peter - I actually didn't Peter, and how did I know you'd spout that? Predictable. Given I was talking to Pr2, it should've been clear what I my context was.detritus
- Crikey, you thought that was some personal attack? You're quite sensitive, aren't you?detritus
- My apologies if I don't knw WTF it's called - but I've posted vids from 'whatever it is' here beforehand, non-sardonically, so your smarting is all your own.detritus
- Nice to know what you think of me though!detritus
- reading this back, i'm perplexed as to why you thought I was attacking you, other than it's clear that your intent was to jab at me, so.. pathetic?detritus
- "AIRSOFT"!
I found that out by searching google for 'bb gun gaming'.detritus - and as expected it turned into "easy answers" conversation about guns...pr2
- "this is my opinion about it. you can't have your own" ~pr2moldero
- opinions have hierarchy too. if you start with "GUNS!" then i know yours don't count for much.pr2
- you don't like if the topic is about a "shooting" and someone mentions "guns"?
you are fuckin stupid.moldero - I'll have to remember your incredibly biased view next time I watch one of your documentaries Patryk, maybe you can get a gig at Fox or with Alex Jonesmoldero
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