Martin Karne on 21/4/2009 at 04:32
If those tards did played Quake or Unreal instead of Doom, there would be no Columbine shooting.
Turtle on 21/4/2009 at 05:01
Happy Columbine Day everyone!
What did you guys get?
I got a new shotgun!
It's awesome.lol
Volitions Advocate on 21/4/2009 at 05:18
It had a rather large mark on the life of kids in my area.
I was in 10th grade, i think.. when it happened.
and 2 days later some kid in the school district right next to ours took a .22 into his school and shot 2 kids, killing 1 of them.
I can remember the next day in school very clearly. a lot of rules set down that day. nothing resembling a gun including 2 cocked fingers allowed in the school. no trench coats etc.
thats just the cosmetic knee jerk reaction stuff..
Every class I was in the teacher talked about it. for nearly a week it was all anybody talked about, they wanted to make sure every kid knew exactly what happened and why. and what everyone needs to do to prevent it.
The only other thing that ever sparked so much talk when I was in high school was 9/11.
yeah I think its a serious matter.
demagogue on 21/4/2009 at 05:26
Quote Posted by Turtle
Happy Columbine Day everyone!
What did you guys get?
A copy of The Turner Diaries... :p
Rarely has such a blockheaded, mediocre book caused so much trouble.
AR Master on 21/4/2009 at 06:05
ar asster tag: hell yes
now just apply it to any thread where i seem to feel the need to saunter in, drop a one liner, maybe call someone a fag and overall contribute absolutely nothing to the internet
LOL THAT IS EVERY POST
june gloom on 21/4/2009 at 06:19
AR Master: the poor man's PigLick.
Melan on 21/4/2009 at 06:26
Quote Posted by nicked
Yes I always find it horrifyingly fascinating in these situations that the evil psychos get their names in the history books, but most of us probably couldn't name a single of their victims.
If it worked for (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herostratos) Herostratos, it will work for Joe Blow in high school.
On the other hand, much of the reaction to the shootings was righteous indignation on teen violence and Them Video Games without actually looking into the role of high school abuse in setting off the two idiots. There was a long-ass Slashdot piece titled (
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/04/25/1438249.shtml) Voices from the Hellmouth on the subject shortly after the shootings by one Jon Katz, and it is very educational to sit down and read through the entire thing
with the comments. I had a shitty time in HS, but some of the things recounted there reveal things much more poisonous and horrid than I ever experienced. If schools want to prevent similar events in the future, they must make a serious attempt to repair the fucked up social dynamics that exist within them.
Koki on 21/4/2009 at 08:28
Quote Posted by nicked
Yes I always find it horrifyingly fascinating in these situations that the evil psychos get their names in the history books, but most of us probably couldn't name a single of their victims.
Killing someone takes effort, getting killed doesn't
Just a thought
fett on 21/4/2009 at 13:48
Koki: Keepin' ttlg edgy.
I've been thinking a lot about the high school social dynamic thing. We're getting ready to start homeschooling our two boys, not because we think public school is evil, but because we're going to have time to do it ourselves, and we're going to get to travel a lot and let them actually experience life instead of being chained to a desk doing inane worksheets about it.
Everyone's big objection is that they won't have any socialization. I can't think of a more unrealistic social setting than a school classroom though. After high school, you rarely sit in the same room with 20 people exactly your own age, doing the exact same work. Unless I'm training my kids to grow up to be telemarketers, I'm not sure what they'd be missing. The social dynamic in high school is fucked up anyway.
