Another school shooting..

[Tricky]

probably wouldnt have happened at all if people werent such arseholes to people who arent like them. it's not like the kids to whom everyone was really nice and got along with end up doing school shootings... Yeah but plenty of us take no end of sh!t and still dont go blowing a gasket like that!i dont get any grief these days but growing up i was sometimes bullied,scared and upset,in fact its probably where my anxiety and OCD stem from,but i still wouldnt go on a killing spree!

[MinionZombie]

Yeah, millions of people across the globe have a shiite time at school or work, and they don't go shooting up the place, it's something you sometimes have to deal with, not everybody is a nice person. And also, if someone is a nutjob who stalks women and annoys people constantly with emails and IMs etc, then would you be all Nicey-McNice to them? Doubt it, you'd be indifferent at best or quite likely get pissed off by the nuisance person and ignore them. The guy sounds like he was a complete nutter, dissolusioned stories laced with violence that disturbed his teachers - and these are uni lecturers, who are traditionally a liberal bunch. There's violent stories, and then there's violent stories written by psychos-in-waiting - methinks the latter is gonna be especially messed up.

[slickwilly13]

Did you hear about his imaginary girlfriend? What a loser. No wonder people laughed at and wouldn't have anything to do with him. He brought it on himself. You don't act creepy to get noticed in a positive way.

[Debbieangel]

I just heard on Fox news they arrested a boy from a school cause there was a classroom discussion about the shootings and he said he could understand why that guy did the shootings! ARRESTED??? What the HEY?? aaaaaah we live in AMERICA!!!! That is all the news said maybe somehow the context of what the kid said was different and gave credence for them to arrest him. I dont know but, when I heard that I was like HUH? Has anyone else heard about this? wowwww i just noticed this is my 500th post...woot!!! I may just make it to 1,000 posts in a couple years

[coma]

Did you hear about his imaginary girlfriend? What a loser. No wonder people laughed at and wouldn't have anything to do with him. He brought it on himself. You don't act creepy to get noticed in a positive way. Indeed. I have known anti social killers in waiting that seemed to think people adversion to them was other peoples fault, but they we total wierdos. Not "Oh your smart and clever. I hate that you wierdo", I mean in the disturbed way. I went to college with a guy that I know is or going to be a serial sex killer or something. Wierd Language patterns, way too into things like swords, guns and Secret police attire like Stasi Uniforms. Freako. and scary This is not a case of a "pushed to the edge" snapping. This is an antisocial psycho biding his time.

[Dawg]

uhh dude, we didnt take the euro. its still pounds over here. i think psyche evalutions should be mandatory for anyone buying a gun, i call it the "dont sell guns to nutjobs" system. Give it time. Dawg

[MinionZombie]

Give what time? The Euro? Or psych-evals for gun-wanters? The gun thing would be an idea, duno how they'd do it... As for the Euro, there was something on TV yesterday about how every time Blair has tried to make the EU look good, something's come along to show the British public otherwise, and then of course there was the massive public backlash to getting shot of the good old pound ... somehow I doubt we'll turn into Europe's offshoot (even though we get all the bad from the deal it seems at the moment...)

[Bongholio]

package sent off to the news ahead of time media who*e emo kills just say no http://www.canada.com/topics/news/wo...fd1868&k=44182

[Neil]

Quite a good list of some of his rants over at the BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6570369.stm Really sounds like maybe he felt shunned, maybe even bullied/victimised. Got to love the sound of the form you have fill in when getting a gun where it's just a tick box you tick to admit if you've had any mental health problems... Now boy, that's a system based on trust.

[Kaos]

Really sounds like maybe he felt shunned, maybe even bullied/victimised. Most other testimony indicates quite the opposite. There is almost every indication that his perception of being a victim was delusional. Edit- It appears he was picked on in grade school.

[PJoseph]

My good friends at the WBC are going to attend the funerals of the victims and praise God for killing them. For those who don't know, these are the religious freaks that protest at soldier's funerals and say God has killed them. (The BBC did a fantastic documentary on them which you can view on YouTube.) This is from their website - "WBC will preach at the funerals of the Virginia Tech students killed on campus during a shooting rampage April 16, 2007. You describe this as monumental horror, but you know nothing of horror -- yet. Your bloody tyrant Bush says he is 'horrified' by it all. You know nothing of horror -- yet. Your true horror is coming. "They shall also gird themselves with sackloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads" (Eze. 7:18). Why did this happen, you ask? It's simple. On April 16, 2007, this nation, through the offices of your military and conspirators therewith took a shot at the servants of God -- your marksman was limp and lame and he had terror all around, so he did a lousy job. But what you get for your trouble is that your God shot at you! The LORD your God sent a crazed madman to shoot at your children, and he didn't miss. Get this straight -- God sent this South Korean madman to kill 31 of your children at Virginia Tech. Was God asleep while this took place? Was He on vacation? Of course not. He willed this to happen to punish you for assailing His servants." Anywhere I turn, this country I live in is full of lunatics. Left and right - it doesn't matter anymore.

[MinionZombie]

And I sincerely hope the supporters of Virginia Tech swarm on those sick bastard nutjobs and trample them into the ground for good. I saw the documentary, it was indeed great, really showed them to be a bunch of psychopathic weirdos who use playground 'brick wall' "cos I said so" tactics as their key modus operandi.

[Khardis]

Getting rid of the idiots is not going to happen unfortunately. They'll be forever amongst us. Other modern nations have instilled tougher (Stricter) speech laws and have seen dramatic results in their favor. I think it naive to declare tougher mandates and regulations would not decrease the number of speech related fatalities and crimes we see each year. The 1st amendment, of which I support (I too am not a 'speech person'), is over 200 years old . Our forefathers wrote this with the English Army in mind, not some maniac going on a murder spree and killing it's citizens. Some tweaking may be in order, ya think ? What? you want to pick and choose your freedoms? Hey, you didnt realize the 2nd amendment protects the 1st? Oh, well now you do. Quite a good list of some of his rants over at the BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6570369.stm Really sounds like maybe he felt shunned, maybe even bullied/victimised. Got to love the sound of the form you have fill in when getting a gun where it's just a tick box you tick to admit if you've had any mental health problems... Now boy, that's a system based on trust. You brits really loathe and fear personal responsibility dont you? I have a question, will you all be crying to your Government when the nutter islamic facists are killing you in the streets? Your gun deaths may be low, but rapes and roberies are on the up up UP. Go England. Yes and no... Unfortunately 'the gun' is so instilled in american society now it seems there is no way to get rid of it, or even just reduce/control it, especially when almost any attempt to control ownership is met with such an outcry - even though the majority of americans seem in favour of the tightening of gun ownership etc. The only thing I can imagine would work would be to slowy increase legislation/control on ownership over half a century to gradually change the 'gun culture'... and make it gradually harder and harder to at least buy guns without proper ID etc. And also buy multiple weapons etc. Wont happen, because guns arent the problem. Your crime didnt go away when you disarmed the populace in England, in fact it went up. And the criminals who want guns still got guns over there. The common man cant defend himself anymore, thats what changed. Thats what your government wanted and you went along with. Welcome to slavery. By the way the majority of "gun deaths" in the USA are ... ding ding ding. Suicides. Thats right we still flag suicides as homicides. The majority of whats left happen in ghettos. Scenes like the VA tech killings are actually quite rare.

[Tricky]

Aye but we dont get all the cases of normally responsible gun owning people shooting their spouse in a fit of anger over an affair and that kind of thing

[MinionZombie]

And the vast majority of Muslims in Britain are decent enough people, just like the rest of us. While sharing often polar opposite views on things such as homosexuality or pornography or sex before marriage (or even piggy banks apparently, at least as the white-skinned-PC-brigade would have us believe), they're still productive members of society and keep themselves to themselves and let the rest of us get on with being British, while we get on with keeping ourselves to ourselves. The problem is the loud-mouth minority, who assume the image of majority, because they continue to shout the loudest and the most frequent with the most colourful canvas of wording ... so leave the latent racism at home Khardis, because that what it sounds like at least. Also, quit with the assumptions about British society as you've historically shown you don't know what you're talking about when it comes to UK life, if you're so bothered about Brits commenting on the most prominent country in the world then why do you comment on us with vast, sweeping statements? Pot ... kettle ... black?