one of the big problems with "wait for a better day"
moondog Send a noteboard - 15/12/2012 03:45:53 PM
It really didn't hit me until today. I can't find a list of the students that were murdered so I can't find out if I knew any of the families until I call my parents this morning.
Everywhere is referencing the Virginia Tech shootings too. This is ridiculous that the largest school shooting happened at a school I currently go to and the second largest is in the town that literally bordered mine. Out of all the possible places. I guess I'm just lucky that I was never in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Plus I'm sick and tired of talking about stricter guns laws the same day that this happened. Leave politics out of this for once and god damn it, just let some people have some time to mourn. Discuss gun laws in a day or two.
EDIT: About the gun laws, I'm mainly referring to the politicians and people from home. You guys and most of the folks online aren't personally affected so it's not like you need that mourning period. But when someone comes on the news saying "I'm sorry BUUUUUTTTTTT..." or when a parent of one of friends posts about writing gun control letters to congress I think that time can be better spent writing condolences. Save that discussion for a time when we can analyze the situation and not when people are still wrapping their heads around what happened here.
Everywhere is referencing the Virginia Tech shootings too. This is ridiculous that the largest school shooting happened at a school I currently go to and the second largest is in the town that literally bordered mine. Out of all the possible places. I guess I'm just lucky that I was never in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Plus I'm sick and tired of talking about stricter guns laws the same day that this happened. Leave politics out of this for once and god damn it, just let some people have some time to mourn. Discuss gun laws in a day or two.
EDIT: About the gun laws, I'm mainly referring to the politicians and people from home. You guys and most of the folks online aren't personally affected so it's not like you need that mourning period. But when someone comes on the news saying "I'm sorry BUUUUUTTTTTT..." or when a parent of one of friends posts about writing gun control letters to congress I think that time can be better spent writing condolences. Save that discussion for a time when we can analyze the situation and not when people are still wrapping their heads around what happened here.
is that "a better day" never comes. at some point we *must* have a deeper understanding of the causes of the prevalence of violence in our society. the way our collective attention span works, if we don't speak up the same day, everyone will move on to something else when the mourning is over.
i will agree that the immediate aftermath of a situation is not appropriate, especially if there are still details missing from the story. but i think we need to stop pushing this particular issue to the side for a better day every time one of these tragedies occurs.
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20 children killed in latest US school shooting 
- 15/12/2012 12:35:42 AM
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- 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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one of the big problems with "wait for a better day"
- 15/12/2012 03:45:53 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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