I'm gonna have to do more research. It's quite aways from my imagination so I'm certainly missing something in my introspective experience.
Colorado theatre, colorado planned parenthood. Giffords. Roof. Fort hood. A lot of them live. Just over half last I saw a number on it.
Think to us it just seems reasonable no one would be able to live with themselves after doing such a thing. Then you remember reason has no part in what they do.I'm gonna have to do more research. It's quite aways from my imagination so I'm certainly missing something in my introspective experience.
Think to us it just seems reasonable no one would be able to live with themselves after doing such a thing. Then you remember reason has no part in what they do.
Being in them you feel like you are in prison, is my memory.Schools built in the early 20th century were beautiful as well as functional. Then we lost our way and modern schools look much like cut rate prisons.
We are indeed in a bad way. Don't know about you folks, but I can't imagine voting for a Republican. Never have, either.If this happened tomorrow with 200 dead school kids does anyone think things would really change? We'd talk about it for a few days, send thoughts and prayers and then move on to the next body count.
lives in a society where mass killings make you famous
That's an interesting idea. We remembered these things largely by the location instead of the individual. Not sure how that influences this notion.
“When the media highlights the magnitude of attacks as ‘the largest’ or as having the most victims, it is imbuing the perpetrator with what might be perceived as a status or power that others want to emulate,” psychologist Peter Langman, an expert on school shootings, told me. By dwelling on and comparing death tolls, he says, news media “run the risk of essentially creating a national ranking, which might lead subsequent perpetrators to kill even more people so that they can be ‘number one’ and go down in history.”
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This problem is prevalent in another dataset I built in 2015 to research the “Columbine effect”—scores of cases in which mass shooters and would-be attackers have been influenced in various ways by the 1999 high school massacre. More than a dozen cases since then involved perpetrators specifically with ambitions to surpass Columbine’s body count.
according to a 2015 paper out of Arizona State University, “Contagion in Mass Killings and School Shootings,” there are some data that mass shootings often occur in bunches, which indicates that they “infect” new potential murderers, not unlike a disease. “We find significant evidence that mass killings involving firearms are incented by similar events in the immediate past,” the authors wrote. Suicide and terrorism, too, have been found to be likewise contagious. (Interestingly, the authors found “no significant association” between the rate of school and mass shootings and the state’s prevalence of mental illness.)
There is a lot of information out there supporting the idea that mass media coverage only helps to fuel the issue. You can usually find articles supporting that on the same site running 24/7 shows and articles with big scary fonts and headlines about the shooting.
Remember Slow's golden rules: whenever guns are involved, the solution to the problem is always everything except guns. Or better yet, to do absolutely nothing.
And your vision is to restrict any right you don't agree with. More rules, more government will solve our problems. If we only allowed people to say nice things there'd be less bullying. Who cares about natural rights!
Guns are natural now? Guess I'll head on down to the gun field and pick one off the vine I guess.
we get it, the cost of our freedom is paid with the blood of our children, you're totally ok with that, that is eminently clearThe right to defend yourself is, the Bill of Rights codifies natural rights. Bad guys have guns and have them even when they are outlawed from good guys that follow the laws, like in gun-free zones. I bet this school was a gun free zone. How'd that work out?
The right to defend yourself is, the Bill of Rights codifies natural rights. Bad guys have guns and have them even when they are outlawed from good guys that follow the laws, like in gun-free zones. I bet this school was a gun free zone. How'd that work out?
That truck should be dumping out every single known religion into that landfill.If only there was something we could do, or at least try... meanwhile
And your vision is to restrict any right you don't agree with. More rules, more government will solve our problems. If we only allowed people to say nice things there'd be less bullying. Who cares about natural rights!
Owning a gun is not a natural right. Unless you can point to AR-15s growing on trees.
And no, my aim is not to restrict any right I don't like, or to assume that the government will fix everything. But there's a difference between defending a right and taking an absolutist stance on it that clearly doesn't reflect the intent, or doesn't account for changes in technology. Hell, the irony is that you do support restrictions on the 2nd Amendment, because I'm pretty sure you don't think Americans have the right to own rocket launchers, grenades, tanks or combat aircraft. It's just a question of where you're willing to draw the line.
And as people will point out, the US has a bad habit of saying nothing can be done about near-constant mass shootings... in the only country where this kind of mass shooting happens with this kind of frequency. It's as if the problem isn't human nature, but rather an irrational fetishization of gun ownership that attacks anyone who even tries to propose intelligent limits.
It’s January 24, there’s been 11 school shootings this year.
It's to soon, and nothing can be done.
The right to defend yourself is, the Bill of Rights codifies natural rights. Bad guys have guns and have them even when they are outlawed from good guys that follow the laws, like in gun-free zones. I bet this school was a gun free zone. How'd that work out?