The Horror that happened today...

[Antichrist_Online]

I was meaning there's no threat. Not even armed guards or a police officer on campus.

About the teacher, for three years he bullied me. I mean serious bullying, he destroyed my work and made me do it again, put me in the bottom set when I was more capable than any of the other pupils. Forced me to the back of any line. Told parents I beat up random kids, including girls half my age (when I was 9), resulting in one attacking me. Lied about things I'd "done" so he could keep me in detention or punish me. He'd take my books off me that I'd read at break and lunch because I didn't want to play football with the other kids. (One of which hit me with a metal bar on my birthday breaking my arm and he did nothing.) He also let the other kids beat me up, and the second I fought back drag me off and punish me. The thing that finally threw me over the edge is he took one of my books and tore it up infront of me. There's only two things that really send me over the edge (the other is guys hitting girls for no reason[not in self defence]). So I took his baseball bat from the PE cupboard and tried to kill him with it. Only managed to give him a perminant limp.

[Schme]

Fucking nice, man. Way to settle shit.

Too bad you didn't get him sooner.


For real, good on you. Much respect to that.


I can only imagine how awful that must have been, though. Reading about those things, I mean, fuck, what a guy. He's lucky you didn't put a bullet in his head.

[kinvoya]

It's becoming pretty clear that the guy was seriously mentally ill. I don't like guns for this reason exactly, that a mentally ill person can easily obtain them legally or illegally and act on his delusions (whatever they were). If it had been much harder for him to get the guns he could not have killed so many.

I don't know if it's actually true or not but it seems to me like severe mental illness is becoming much more widespread. I personally think that this has to do with environmental chemicals and drugs/alcohol ingested before or during pregnancy. Not to mention drug and alcohol abuse by these already unstable individuals.

Here is some interesting info about the shooter.

http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/17/ ... uis-plays/

[Sicofonte]

I really would like to put all this as my signature
I'll have to make an abstract...

Why? I don't get it. What's an abstract? No offence, I just don't understand.

A summary (abstract is used on tesis, articles and papers).

[the_antisocial_hermit]

If it had been much harder for him to get the guns he could not have killed so many.

That's not true. It might've taken him longer to get one, but if he persevered and managed to get one, legally or illegally, the result would be the same, regardless of how hard it was to get it.

[kinvoya]

I would prefer that it be as hard as possible for people to obtain guns. Especially guns like he had which have only one purpose, killing people.

[the_antisocial_hermit]

I agree with that. I just don't think it would've changed the outcome if he were determined enough.

[Schme]

I agree that it is unlikely that it'd have changed much. I'm certain he'd have gotten a weapon somehow. Though I do agree guns should be heavily regulated. Very few people in our societies actually need guns to do non-illegal things.

And then, he probably wouldn't have gotten a semi-automatic weapon if they were heavily regulated. Unless you have connections, it is very difficult to get illegal firearms. With connections, you can get one in a day, a couple hours even. But straight edge college students, no matter how fucked up, usually don't have those kind of connections. He'd have probably stabbed somebody were semi-automatic illegal for the general public.

But there'd still be massacres anyhow. There's really not much you can do about that sort of thing. He decided to attack unarmed people with a better weapon, he was going to kill somebody. People would still find weapons and commit massacres. For example, that soldier who brought his rifle to the National Assembly out in Quebec City in 1980. One can't reasonably expect soldiers to be unarmed. It'd still happen.

But regulation couldn't hurt.

Those plays are good stuff, Kinvoya, where'd you find them? Thanks for putting them up. My god was this guy out of it, eh? Jesus Christ.

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