Misha wrote:
thedirtyporthole wrote:
Misha wrote:
leee wrote:
Eternal Idol wrote:
Misha wrote:
Emolicious wrote:
I guess those suicide bombers lived without purpose before us horrible Americans "invaded" their countries, huh? Nah, they didn't do that shit before the US got there.

My irony detector went dead, but no, they didn't.
Ceterum censeo that this wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for America's gun law.
The guy was obviously a raging psycho, but sure, let's find scapegoats for someone who is mentally ill. You sound more like an American than you think.
Amen to that.
Psychos find ways to kill. Besides I used to live in Virginia and maybe I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure they have some very tough gun laws on par with CT. Mass and other places back east.
To contradict that where I live in Az we have pretty lax ones and you can even walk around carrying one in a holster. You don't believe me? Go check out Cave Creek or some other places North of here.
Anyways, It isn't Gun Laws, it is Psychos, mind set and our large population that causes these types of incidents and making it look like we have more then any other place. constantly. Not to mention or wining, blame it on somebody else, everyone owes us something culture in the US lately.
Exactly, the man was mentally ill, his relationship went crap and he just had a fight with his girl. He went psycho. You have to be retarted yourself to claim that he would still have shot all those people if he didn't have a gun. Almost all of these things are done from impulsive, nothing of this was planned. I have no clue how to get a gun here in the Netherlands, even if guns we easy to come by but illegal, he would still have to get it, enough time for him to cool down and realise it's a bad idea. That's why these things are rarely premeditated and almost always an impuls.
Columbine was completely pre-meditated. And aside from guns, they made pipe-bombs. The type of person that is going to do something like this will already have guns or some other sort of weapon. I doubt that somebody wakes up one day, has a fight with his girlfriend, and is so crazy about it he decides to shoot up a school and then doent because he cant get a gun. If you want to shoot up a school you will be able to get it if you want it bad enough, and that type of person would already have one. I dount in the history of school shootings that anybody bought a gun on the day they did the shootings.
Columbine is an exception, I agree it's not yet clear about this one, but the point is that a lot of these shooters already had a gun, so they didn't need to buy one. It's a ridiculous law anyways, I'm glad you agree with that. Banning guns would be a solution to a lot of problems in the US.
Here is the point you all keep missing with your usual euro dismissive single minded solutions to everything...
1. People are never going to give up their guns in the US or vote for the outright banning of them, no matter what happens. It goes back to our whole freedom issue and other things deeply set in our culture. It is more then just wanting to blow away anyone you see when you go crazy.
2. There are already so many guns out there it wouldn't matter, if Psycho A wanted a gun, he would get one, no problem. I bet I could buy 6 today if wanted one.
3. How many people on this board have a gun in their bedroom? I have two, I never shot anybody and I'm sure the percentages of owners vs people who do school massacres is in the .00001 percent range. Misha if you pissed me off I wouldn't shoot you.
4. Typical European knee jerk reactions to this are predictable and ignorant. Take care of your own. You all are no better then those who blame this behaviour on metal or video games and refuse to put personal responsibilty on the people who do these things. Yes I know Europe is home to very strict anti race laws, censorship, movie banning, music banning, free though banning, etc (Video nasties, Germanies ban on anything with a slight Nazi refrence, Muslim not allowed to wear those head wraps in school, etc etc.). The US isn't like Europe and those types of laws won't work here.
5. And the most important thing of all. Instead of arguing about it, playing it off with some stupid political smart mouthing about people dying in suicide bombs, how about some respect and a moment of silence for another shitty incident in a volatile world.