2012-12-14, 15:43 | Link #25181 |
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As was pointed out, there is already a thread to discuss gun-control related issues. Please use that thread so that this thread can focus on the news of what happened (not personal editorials of how government policies should change).
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2012-12-14, 15:48 | Link #25182 | |
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I've cut down tree with a shotgun (it was burnt from a forest fire, so it was more just breaking what was left of the tree before it fell over). I've also blasted out mistletoe with a shotgun because we didn't have a tall enough ladder.
Shotguns also are used to get rid of pests on farms (rodents, snakes, sometimes birds). It is a tool. How one uses it is subject to need and laws. If one misuses a tool (any tool) to take a life, than that person is prosecuted for it as a crime. Pistols are for home defense because they are generally smaller and less powerful. Police use hollow tip bullets so they will stop in (or just after) the first solid thing it hits so it won't keep going into someone elses building. Rifles are used for hunting larger animals, or at distance were a pistol is not as useful. Again a tool. It is a tool generally used to kill, but not always people. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In other (happier) news: Indiana Jones got mail at his college. http://todayentertainment.today.com/...f-chicago?lite= Quote:
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2012-12-14, 15:50 | Link #25184 | |
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2012-12-14, 15:52 | Link #25185 |
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Ugh that makes me feel like crying. Those poor children. I don't think the Grinch was conceptualized in a reality of such hateful acts. I might need to just avoid this type of news for a bit. Really screws with my head.
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2012-12-14, 15:57 | Link #25186 | |
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2012-12-14, 16:04 | Link #25187 | |
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2012-12-14, 16:07 | Link #25188 |
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How about pissed? I sure as hell am. I still remember Columbine, like I do with 9/11. Even though shootings have happened before that -- I probably was too young to even remember 'em. Or, I might not have been in the country yet.
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2012-12-14, 16:13 | Link #25189 | |
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It reminded me of the quick reversal by Russia's Foreign Ministry of the comments made yesterday about the future of Assad government. It is rare that we get to see behind the curtain in countries like China or Russia. Just like the rest of the major powers they face an increasingly unstable world populated by increasingly uncontrollable client states.
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2012-12-14, 16:17 | Link #25190 | |
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2012-12-14, 16:17 | Link #25191 | |
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bad for the kids; they have done nothing wrong to deserve this. i'm very sure parents are going to be really worry after this news. no one wants their kids to be in any danger.
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2012-12-14, 16:27 | Link #25193 |
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My condolences towards the family.. I've just heard about it a couple of minutes ago. I want to complain about the lack of gun control (eventhough as an outsider I couldn't even do that), but I agree that it's not the time.
It saddens me to see those innocent kids suddenly lost their life when I imagined those kids going to school without knowing what'll happen to them.. I hope their families will stay strong and those poor souls the best...wherever they are right now.
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2012-12-14, 16:28 | Link #25194 | |
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I'm not a parent yet, but I have a 9 year old brother attending school not too far from there. Logical or not, when you have an element like that, it makes your reaction that much more emotional and upset. |
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2012-12-14, 16:30 | Link #25195 | |
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2012-12-14, 16:49 | Link #25196 |
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This new university study should reverberate across the gaming community...
... and in a couple days or hours from now: the mainstream media. http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddis...re-aggression/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57...lative-effect/ |
2012-12-14, 16:52 | Link #25197 | |
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2012-12-14, 17:14 | Link #25199 | |
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I do think think that video games, or movies, or any immersive experience *can* ignite the extreme outlier. But so can a corroded economy, uncertainty, insecurity, flaming zealotry, etc. At the end of the day, you start wondering if these flag waving finger pointers have a point.
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