i am not linking to any specific article, because i'm sure everyone will find the same info at their favorite news source. my only real question is: why do we put the label of "worst" school shooting on virginia tech simply because of the body count? i'd nominate this one for "worst" because of the ages of the children killed, even though it is only the second "worst" shooting by body count. maybe some day we will live to see a day where we don't have yet another mass shooting to compare to all the others....
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20 children killed in latest US school shooting
15/12/2012 12:35:42 AM
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i know 2 people with kids there, one of them has lost their 5 year old. this is too close to home
15/12/2012 12:39:26 AM
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I lived 20 mins from there. I'm shocked. I'm even heading back there in 4 days....
15/12/2012 02:08:28 PM
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Maybe when we stop making media celebrities out of these murderers..
16/12/2012 05:36:19 PM
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Nope, won't happen.
16/12/2012 06:37:11 PM
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For each of those 30 years sociologists have warned of the growing danger of growing alienation.
16/12/2012 10:05:28 PM
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I don't know what you mean, though.
17/12/2012 05:53:44 PM
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I dunno, your response suggests you figured it out pretty quickly.
18/12/2012 05:08:12 PM
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Short form: The common phrases "suicide by cop" and "going postal" did not exist a generation ago.
18/12/2012 09:14:51 PM
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if they were after fame, they would probably all have tried to stay alive after killing everyone
16/12/2012 10:01:50 PM
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One need not be living to be famous.
16/12/2012 10:08:12 PM
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actually, i'm pretty sure you're wrong on this
17/12/2012 05:38:07 PM
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"Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse," "it's better to burn out than fade away" etc
18/12/2012 03:25:23 PM
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what do your examples all have in common?
18/12/2012 08:42:59 PM
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I frequently confuse that detail of Hinckleys shooting with Chapmans, sorry.
18/12/2012 08:59:25 PM
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Chapman wasn't a mass murderer, though. Neither was Hinckley.
20/12/2012 05:15:23 AM
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True, but it does demonstrate how easily and frequently notoriety motivates shootings.
26/12/2012 07:22:37 PM
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