People need to stop shooting up schools.

Tuna Hematoma · 12-14-2012, 10:33 PM

Jerks.

Pogo · 12-14-2012, 10:45 PM

I know right?

I hope Santa puts him on the naughty list.

Don Tickner · 12-14-2012, 11:07 PM

Another week, another American shooting.

Bobby Swisha · 12-15-2012, 12:00 AM

Tuna Hematoma · 12-15-2012, 12:01 AM

haha, we sell those year round in Canuckia.

Slime · 12-15-2012, 12:08 AM

Tuna Hematoma · 12-15-2012, 12:14 AM

I agree with Snoop Lion being illegal.

Phil Williamson · 12-15-2012, 03:30 AM

Haha kinder surprise eggs are illegal in america?? Why?

Dave Miles · 12-15-2012, 03:49 AM

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The chocolate eggs are illegal in the US because of a law dating back to 1938 which bans inedible objects inside confectionery

Shaun · 12-15-2012, 04:14 AM

Meanwhile, in China...

Man slashes 22 children near China school

Bravoie · 12-15-2012, 04:15 AM

Let the repulsive facebook prayer fest begin.

Gorosaurus · 12-15-2012, 04:26 AM

Bravoie · 12-15-2012, 04:28 AM

That kinder egg thing doesn't make sense. We have king cakes with plastic babies in them and they're legal. Does the law not apply to king cakes?

Bravoie · 12-15-2012, 04:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Gorosaurus

Oh, what? Posting about how "you're praying for the victims" on facebook is just a way to acknowledge the problem without actually doing anything about it. It adds no real value to the conversation on ways to actually solving the issue. Similar to changing your profile pic for whatever awareness. A cop-out response. An excuse for inaction. "May god help us all"

Phil Williamson · 12-15-2012, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Shaun

Meanwhile, in China...

Man slashes 22 children near China school

the contrast between this (where no one died) and CT is a really really good argument for gun control

Andres · 12-15-2012, 08:07 AM

If the children had been allowed to carry a concealed weapon this would have never happened.

Jesterfoot · 12-15-2012, 08:22 AM

Lol

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Originally Posted by Bravoie

Oh, what? Posting about how "you're praying for the victims" on facebook is just a way to acknowledge the problem without actually doing anything about it. It adds no real value to the conversation on ways to actually solving the issue. Similar to changing your profile pic for whatever awareness. A cop-out response. An excuse for inaction. "May god help us all"

What kind of response are they coping-out on?

Andres · 12-15-2012, 08:43 AM

On admitting their inability to achieve anything.

Don Tickner · 12-15-2012, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Bravoie

Oh, what? Posting about how "you're praying for the victims" on facebook is just a way to acknowledge the problem without actually doing anything about it.

Not to be too rude man, but pointing this out does even less - apart from looking at people expressing their emotions in their own way and saying "Fuck you".

100% of all gun control debates, discussion and laws in relation to the USA's gun problem were 100% ineffective in preventing a guy from walking into a school and shooting dead over 20 children.
The fuck did you want them to say? American politics treat murdered children as collateral damage for the Second Amendment to their Constitution. How do you even begin to correct that mindset as a civilian?

Kevitus · 12-15-2012, 10:13 AM

Is anybody else of the impression that people are going more and more insane? I mean there were just too much of these shootings and massacres recently - not only in the US.

Trooper · 12-15-2012, 10:50 AM

I know we talk about this every time there's a shooting like this but is there really any good reason to be allowed to keep a gun over, say, a taser? Surely the protection factor goes down massively if the guy breaking into your house is also allowed to go out and get hold of a gun whenever he likes.

Firearms death rate in the US is over 10 times higher than the UK and our firearms death rate for kids is next to nothing, I imagine.

Andres · 12-15-2012, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Don Tickner

The fuck did you want them to say? American politics treat murdered children as collateral damage for the Second Amendment to their Constitution. How do you even begin to correct that mindset as a civilian?

They could have said that, for starters.

Don Tickner · 12-15-2012, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Andres

They could have said that, for starters.

And it would have been as cold and as uncaring as it was when I typed it.

"Man, these 20 kids being murdered in cold blood just stands to show how fucked up Politics are in Washington. Excuse me while I rant on about my own personal political views and present them as fact on a social media website where no one able to effect change will actually read them"

Yeah, that should be your gut reaction to every horrific tragedy: post about your political views on a narcissistic website.
I'd rather read four hundred "LIKE TO SHOW JESUS YOU CARE" bullshit posts then a single "KIDS WERE MURDERED TODAY AND IT PROVES I WAS RIGHT SO FUCK YOU!" post.

Andres · 12-15-2012, 11:52 AM

There's nothing wrong and uncaring about it. In fact, you're showing you do care about what happened, and don't want to see it happen again.

Andres · 12-15-2012, 11:54 AM

By that definition, you are cold and uncaring if you point out any political and social cause of any bad thing that ever happens. That's an idiotic and anti-intellectual position: let's not talk about anything, you guys.

You are literally arguing that we should just be shallow and stick to the lowest-common-denominator, surface-level comments. Bullshit.

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Tuna Hematoma Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 10,055	People need to stop shooting up schools. Jerks.

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Pogo Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,228	I know right? I hope Santa puts him on the naughty list.
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Don Tickner Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,021	Another week, another American shooting.

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Tuna Hematoma Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 10,055	haha, we sell those year round in Canuckia.

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Bravoie Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 4,713	That kinder egg thing doesn't make sense. We have king cakes with plastic babies in them and they're legal. Does the law not apply to king cakes?
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Andres Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 17,797	If the children had been allowed to carry a concealed weapon this would have never happened.
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Andres Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 17,797	On admitting their inability to achieve anything.
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Kevitus Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 4,542	Is anybody else of the impression that people are going more and more insane? I mean there were just too much of these shootings and massacres recently - not only in the US.
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Trooper Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 7,441	I know we talk about this every time there's a shooting like this but is there really any good reason to be allowed to keep a gun over, say, a taser? Surely the protection factor goes down massively if the guy breaking into your house is also allowed to go out and get hold of a gun whenever he likes. Firearms death rate in the US is over 10 times higher than the UK and our firearms death rate for kids is next to nothing, I imagine.
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12-15-2012, 11:52 AM	#24
Andres Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 17,797	There's nothing wrong and uncaring about it. In fact, you're showing you do care about what happened, and don't want to see it happen again.
Andres Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 17,797

12-15-2012, 11:54 AM	#25
Andres Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 17,797	By that definition, you are cold and uncaring if you point out any political and social cause of any bad thing that ever happens. That's an idiotic and anti-intellectual position: let's not talk about anything, you guys. You are literally arguing that we should just be shallow and stick to the lowest-common-denominator, surface-level comments. Bullshit.
Andres Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 17,797