Crime Deadly shooting kills 26 in Newtown, CT

Hatebreeder

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What could you possibly do to someone that pushes them so far as to kill 20 children? I don't think you can put the blame on others for this one.

I can understand your point of view, but you can push someone to do something as horrible as killing 20 children. Just imagine you're being ignored by everybody. At some point you'll feel like a ghost. What can you possibly do to get attention? What can you possibly do where people can't look away?
I believe that the human mind is fragile and the way we have to live under a steadily evolving government ( in terms of economy and technology ) is not helping. I mean, I can't even breakfast with my fucking family under the week.
 

Fatmankev

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Uhh no? Police in schools is a shitty deal. Where else are they going to sell weed? Where will freshmen go to get high before class if not the back of the school? Plus I don't like police, they don't do a very good job. And they're narcissistic dicks.
You shouldn't sell weed in school. That's foolish. You shouldn't get high at school. That's just about as dumb. Both of those things are for home and nature, not for getting a quick rush at the risk of gettin' in a stupid amount of trouble. There's plenty of time to blaze before and after school, so that's the time to do it.

A lot of police are fuckin' dicks, I agree with that completely. But not all. Every once in a while you'll come across one that's just a regular person trying to do their job, and you can't give someone too much hell for doing what they're supposed to do. A lot of them don't do good jobs, you're right about that, too; more worried about meetin' quotas or bein' the 'badass' than helpin' out those in need, yeah... they're bitches. But hopefully in a school they'd actually be able to do their jobs right. I know that my high school cop man wasn't a super dick, and he'd shoot the shit with you like a regular Joe.

And maybe not cops, armed security guards would work just as well. But I'd rather get some of the cops off the streets and into schools where they might help than to leave them out there, causing pain to people through bullshit fines and incarceration.

Hatebreeder said:
I can understand your point of view, but you can push someone to do something as horrible as killing 20 children. Just imagine you're being ignored by everybody. At some point you'll feel like a ghost. What can you possibly do to get attention? What can you possibly do where people can't look away?
If he wanted attention then why'd he kill himself before he got it? A broken brain is to blame, here, not the people that may or may not have instigated said brain into this sort of atrocious action.
 

Varine

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You shouldn't sell weed in school. That's foolish. You shouldn't get high at school. That's just about as dumb. Both of those things are for home and nature, not for getting a quick rush at the risk of gettin' in a stupid amount of trouble. There's plenty of time to blaze before and after school, so that's the time to do it.

I did. Worked out fine for me.

Every once in a while

Is that a suitable amount for you to rely on?

you can't give someone too much hell for doing what they're supposed to do

Assuming they ARE doing what they're supposed to be doing. Which is rarely the case.

But hopefully in a school they'd actually be able to do their jobs right.

They don't. There was four cops stationed at my high school when I was there. It used to be one, but then a kid offed himself and they upped it for some reason. Every cop there was a douchebag, two of them tried to arrest me, one of them gave me a lecture on coming to school late, and they really liked to search my car.

I know that my high school cop man wasn't a super dick, and he'd shoot the shit with you like a regular Joe.

Chances are he wasn't a regular cop if it was the same one every day.

And maybe not cops, armed security guards would work just as well.

Financial redundancy. Security guards are rarely trained appropriately, liable to get cop-like ego trips, and in the event that you do get a good guard that IS properly trained, they're expensive. If you want a minimum wage rent a cop at your school go ahead, but I sure as hell wouldn't be risking my life for eight dollars an hour.

But I'd rather get some of the cops off the streets and into schools where they might help than to leave them out there, causing pain to people through bullshit fines and incarceration.

I have a better solution: we fire them.

EDIT: about the fame thing, that is a large motivator for it. Not because they want to be famous but because they want everyone to know their name. There's a difference. And every news station in the country has been blasting his name for the past four days, and everyone knows about his life and how hard life was for him, which is typically the endgame in these kinds of scenarios.
 

Fatmankev

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I dunno, I guess that's part of being crazy. Your motives don't have to make sense to regular people. I know that if I was doin' somethin' like this for recognition, then I wouldn't have tried to destroy the evidence to my master plans (his hard drives).
 

Varine

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He probably thought it would add more mystery to him.
 

Fatmankev

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Crazy ass people. I wonder how it would feel to be incapable of remorse like a sociopath (or whatever they're called in this day and age)? I feel like that's one of the biggest things that makes us human.
 

Accname

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I dont know his name. Nobody speaks about that over here. They say 27 people got killed and a few got into hospital. Thats it.

And damn, sounds pretty bad that you guys need cops at school?! This is really crazy for me.
There is no cops in any school over here. There is hardly any security. Our school had 3 cameras (which were probably fake) because somebody broke into the teachers office and stole a computer from there.
It would be an outrage over here if the officials told the parents they need cops to safely get their kids to school.
 

tom_mai78101

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I dont know his name. Nobody speaks about that over here. They say 27 people got killed and a few got into hospital. Thats it.
It's 26.

It would be an outrage over here if the officials told the parents they need cops to safely get their kids to school.

More related to confusion and expressing anger on the school for overspending its funds.
 

KaerfNomekop

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More related to confusion and expressing anger on the school for overspending its funds.
I still don't get it. Nobody else pays 50 bucks a month for armed security to check everyone that enters the school? How do you learn without cowering in fear every day?
 

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I still don't get it. Nobody else pays 50 bucks a month for armed security to check everyone that enters the school? How do you learn without cowering in fear every day?

Because we have a culture that doesn't tolerate the use of guns. Instead, we have the triad.
 

Varine

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I dont know his name. Nobody speaks about that over here. They say 27 people got killed and a few got into hospital. Thats it.

And damn, sounds pretty bad that you guys need cops at school?! This is really crazy for me.
There is no cops in any school over here. There is hardly any security. Our school had 3 cameras (which were probably fake) because somebody broke into the teachers office and stole a computer from there.
It would be an outrage over here if the officials told the parents they need cops to safely get their kids to school.

I don't know his name either, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been blasted on the news. Everyone's heard it. Everyone knows about his shitty childhood. And that's probably what he wanted, everyone to know how hard it is to be him.
 

Accname

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I still don't get it. Nobody else pays 50 bucks a month for armed security to check everyone that enters the school? How do you learn without cowering in fear every day?
I dont even know why anyone should check them. Do you think every student brings a knive or something to school?
There has never been a reason for security guards at school for as long as i can remember.
 

KaerfNomekop

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I dont even know why anyone should check them. Do you think every student brings a knive or something to school?
There has never been a reason for security guards at school for as long as i can remember.
It's seen often enough in the public schools that students bring weapons, drugs and so on, despite the fact that drugs are against Islamic teachings. This country is hardly the safest.

The security guards mainly stop unauthorised people from entering to prevent theft of school property/students.
 

Accname

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It's seen often enough in the public schools that students bring weapons, drugs and so on, despite the fact that drugs are against Islamic teachings. This country is hardly the safest.

The security guards mainly stop unauthorised people from entering to prevent theft of school property/students.
Never occured even once in my entire school life.
There have been a couple of guys selling weed or cigarettes at the toilet, but never did anybody bring weapons or hard drugs or anything to school. And why would anybody try to enter school who isnt supposed to? What should they do?
 
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