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- harlequino0
From ABC news:
SOURCES: SINGLE GUNMAN USED 2 SEMI-AUTOMATIC PISTOLS IN VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTING AND MAY HAVE BEEN WEARING A BULLETPROOF VEST.
- Jaline0
bastard.
- BonSeff0
what is hostle about protecting your home? Sorry if you can't wrap your head around a crime riddled invironment
- harlequino0
Oh-pah, the prez is gonna talk in a minute.
And by prez, I mean "W."
- Crouwel0
what is hostle about protecting your home? Sorry if you can't wrap your head around a crime riddled invironment
BonSeff
(Apr 16 07, 12:23)i can't i am sorry. i can imagine perhaps.
i don't mean to be offensive about it, Bonseff, sorry.
it must be a tough society. :/
- neue75_bold0
it's amazing how much stuff is on that CNN website?! All that news... crazy...
- Crouwel0
haha neue.
- mattyd040
crouwel, a concealed weapon is one that you have a permit to carry but you aren't flashing clint eastwood style. if you get patted down by a cop and they find a weapon on you without a permit, it means big trouble. if you have a permit, they let you go no harm done. point being, a permit is relatively hard to get (waiting periods for background checks, etc). and, if your gun was used, they can track it pretty easily. though, if you don't have a permit, which most people in gangs dont, it means that the gun was purchased illegally and that there's big trouble for them ahead in terms of the judicial system.
- Crouwel0
right, thanks for clearing that up, matty.
- Witt0
yeah, it's a weird comparison. but where I work at least one of them dudes has a weapon with him (in his car). And believe it or not, it's precisely the most neurotic of them all (in my view at least).
it would be easy to say: bah, it's them fuckin' americans. but it's not. it's them fuckin' nut-jobs. of course America plays 250 million to 10 here (16 in Holland), so the probability of having a nutter bursting violence through a classroom is much smaller, like 2 per year * 16/250.
of course the ease of guns (and their movie culture) plays a major role in this, but a psychotic is a psychotic and hardly follows trends.
I may be wrong, though. I don't think anyone knows what's going on. I sure don't.
- CALLES0
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- mattyd040
yeah, good call witt. i agree with you. some people got screws loose and there aint a thing you can do about it. and, i really wanna see how this plays out. because there is no motive that can justify this.
- cosmo0
If you want to buy a gun go for it. But it should have restrictions and some serious background checks. I understand that there is no solution to this problem.
- Gucci0
fuck.
at the end of the day. this is just a tragedy.
fuck the arguments. guns are good and guns are bad. great.
The bottom line is: we need to take care of eachother. we need to feel sorry for one another. we are all together in this for better or worse.
32 lives.
taken.
stolen.32 people with dreams.
32 people with potential.damn.
- Crouwel0
point taken, Witt.
- cosmo0
fuck.
at the end of the day. this is just a tragedy.
fuck the arguments. guns are good and guns are bad. great.
The bottom line is: we need to take care of eachother. we need to feel sorry for one another. we are all together in this for better or worse.
32 lives.
taken.
stolen.32 people with dreams.
32 people with potential.damn.
Gucci
(Apr 16 07, 12:48)
- Crouwel0
copy that.
- Nairn0
My problem with guns (aside from the potential for accidental discharge) is that the wielder is abstracted from the process of infliction more so than with knives, lead pipes or pieces of rope [in the study with Colonel Mustard] - it takes a lot less to pull a trigger than to brutally harm someone by your own force.
That, and I can't think of any useful purpose (in practical terms) and know of NO ONE I would trust to possess one.
- Witt0
I could get a gun for 400 euros if i wish - but i rather buy a cello for 1500 and kill people by sordid soundwaves. This will happen shortly. I hate everyone. I say goodbye in advance.
;)
- version30
32 lives.
taken.
stolen.
32 people with dreams.
32 people with potential.
damn.
Gucci
(Apr 16 07, 12:48)don't romanticize their deaths, the potential to be had may have been an all night bender that sent one of those now dead into a bus full of kids.
for all we know this psycho saved more lives down the road than he took today.
they were alive, now they are dead. let's leave it at that