Another school shooting.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman

What websites was he surfing, Biff?

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I didn't blame it all on the internet Frog, stop your typical strawman bullshit. He probably had shitty parents as well.

There are factors that lead up to getting a gun and shooting people at random. Are all of them media and parent related? No, but I'll bet ya a large percentage are.

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Originally Posted by Bailey

Hey Frog, you're not always right, god I don't like that about you.

Out computer lab consisted of old school IBM's, one of which had computer access and at .15 cents a minute or whatever, we couldn't go on much.

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Right, but what about the dozens of school massacres that predate the internet. You're missing the point, gramps.

"In my day our teenagers killed themselves with some courtesy and consideration for others, because they had discipline." You sound like an ass.

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My point is that the liberal ass "OMG DOOMSDAY" media and the internet are more dangerous to a teen than a house containing a gun. Do you really think you can even argue this point rationally?

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I think the sensationalist, advertising-driven media, both right wing and left wing, focus on these events in a way that make them attractive to suicidal kids. I'd agree with that, though I find the fact that you would imply a political conspiracy to this to be HILARIOUS.

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Originally Posted by Bailey

I didn't blame it all on the internet Frog, stop your typical strawman bullshit. He probably had shitty parents as well.

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Right, unlike "in your day" 2 years before the Jonesboro massacre.

That's right frog, dozens in 200 years vs 20 in the last 10.

Right on buddy, now stop nodding your head and move along.

Any way you slice it there is no determining factor to making a school shooter other than a crazy piece of shit who thinks his life is much harder than everyone else and that he's going to make a final statement on how shitty his life is. Of course he doesn't realize that most people in his phase of the game are living equally shitty lives because he's an idiot.

Media influence, violent videogames, disgusting images Nick and Opaque post in S&B are all out there all the time and there is a very little percentage of idiots who do this kind of shit. It has nothing to do with that and everything to do with them.

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Originally Posted by Bailey

That's right frog, dozens in 200 years vs 20 in the last 10.

Right on buddy, now stop nodding your head and move along.

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And none here in NJ where we have fucking gun control. These kids WANT to do this for various reasons, some of which can't be helped, but they have the OPPORTUNITY to do it because they have access to firearms.

It will happen, sooner or later.

I wish I never made this thread.

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Originally Posted by Bailey

It will happen, sooner or later.

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Oh, I guess they don't have the internet or news channels in any other country in the world, either, right Biff?

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

Oh so now they have to be in your home state? That's convenient.

Also, I like how grandpa thinks the would changed between 1996 and fucking 1999 when the Columbine shit happened.

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No offense frog but I kind of agree with him. The most you ever heard about in Austin, Texas was the famous shooting at the U.T. Tower but in High School it was pretty tame outside of the normal thing with fights.

At least in my expereince growing up from 86 to 90 in High School. The only thing I recall was a stabbing between two girls at one High School in Austin I didn't even goto and from my memory it was an arguement over who was the girlfriend of this guy they were both banging. There hadn't been anything that bad since then.

Austin is a wee bit tame. Houston or Dallas tho you might see some action.

Edit: Why is this shit even locked in the 1st place?