Jarhead
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What the hell is happening in our country as of late?
Virginia Tech: Cop shot, possible second victim near campus
Virginia Tech: Cop shot, possible second victim near campus
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At this point anything anyone says about the shooting will be pure conjecture. As to what is happening in this country, it would also be conjecture to connect this with some larger social trend. So what do you want for an answer?
At this point anything anyone says about the shooting will be pure conjecture. As to what is happening in this country, it would also be conjecture to connect this with some larger social trend. So what do you want for an answer?
I was opening up a discussion of rampant violence in our country....
Never mind.....go back to complaining about the 1%, the GOP, and the Newt affairs.
I checked several networks for coverage of the VA Tech shootings. Fox reported an hour or so ago that the shooter had been captured. Of course that's not true, as I discovered when I went back to MSNBC.
At this point anything anyone says about the shooting will be pure conjecture. As to what is happening in this country, it would also be conjecture to connect this with some larger social trend. So what do you want for an answer?
I was opening up a discussion of rampant violence in our country....
Never mind.....go back to complaining about the 1%, the GOP, and the Newt affairs.
There are shootings every single day in US cities like Philly, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, LA, and why do you act like this is only a national problem when it takes place on a college campus?
Just 20 years ago DC would have almost 500 murders a year. That's more than 1 a day.
At this point anything anyone says about the shooting will be pure conjecture. As to what is happening in this country, it would also be conjecture to connect this with some larger social trend. So what do you want for an answer?
I was opening up a discussion of rampant violence in our country....
Never mind.....go back to complaining about the 1%, the GOP, and the Newt affairs.
There are shootings every single day in US cities like Philly, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, LA, and why do you act like this is only a national problem when it takes place on a college campus?
Just 20 years ago DC would have almost 500 murders a year. That's more than 1 a day.
I was opening up a discussion of rampant violence in our country....
Never mind.....go back to complaining about the 1%, the GOP, and the Newt affairs.
There are shootings every single day in US cities like Philly, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, LA, and why do you act like this is only a national problem when it takes place on a college campus?
Just 20 years ago DC would have almost 500 murders a year. That's more than 1 a day.
Perhaps you are not a parent.....but it is hard when you send your child away to school....and you worry about their well being everyday...
Yet you NEVER expect to get a call that he or she was murdered in cold blood.
Is it any more tragic than murders on the streets of Chicago?
No.
Americans' love affair with violence is nothing new, nothing unusual, nothing to even get suddenly concerned about. We can talk about media glamorizing violence, lack of education or opportunity, drugs and alcohol, untreated mental illness, anything could possibly be to blame in this or any situation. The problem is that any potential solution tramples on someone's sacred cow or costs money.
I know. Let's all buy more guns. Yessirreee..... The NRA solution.
There is something decidedly sick in our society. As a gun owner with mulitiple guns, I cannot imagine using them against someone except in the most extreme circumstances. Yet I see here, and hear others talk as if pointing a gun at someone is just a minor affair.
Let's get the facts. Right now I have a freshman daughter scared shitless !