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[Catt]

Have y'all seen the video and read the letter this nut sent NBC  

[Gotta Love It]

No I have not... do you have a link Catt?

[Catt]

Go to Yahoo's home page

[5bass]

The videos being mailed explained the mysterious 2 hour gap between shootings. He shot the first 2 victims at 7:15 then made his videos and mailed them at the Post Office at 9:01, then proceeded to Norris Hall and ruined more lives.

Total WACKO!

[Guest avid]

The media has been harping on the fact that this a record.

How irresponsible is that?  They are making it the equivalent of a sporting event.

Now the next wacko who wants infamy, needs to "break" the record.

The texas tower sniper seemed like an isolated incident way back when.

but over the past 5 years or so, it seems that schools are deliberate targets for rage filled young men seeking to kill as many people as possible before killing themselves.

It's like "i'm gonna die, so let me take out a bunch of people with me"

And now the media is making a contest out of it.

there are some phenomena where I say to myself

"only in America"

this tragedy and the bizarre media reaction is one of those times.

God bless the victims and their families.

[cart7t]

There are some seriously "Wacked" young kids out there these days.

I don't understand has happened?  Many High schools have a full time police officer on duty, others have metal detectors at the entrances.  So many of these incidents have the same MO.   Student(s) who's the butt of jokes and being made fun of gets ahold of some guns and decides to exact revenge.

What's causing this?  Kids have always made fun of others, it happened in my day when I was young but grabbing a glock and taking out as many of the student body as possible before putting the barrel into your mouth and pulling the trigger wasn't the answer.  It solves nothing.

The ironic part is these are the offspring of a generation that grew up with "all we are saying is give peace a chance" as their mantra.  How did this get to the point where young kids have no concept on the value of human life, whether their own or someone elses?  These kids are walking into classrooms and firing away like it's some sort of video game. (Hmmm, might be a connection there)  They're blazing away at human beings like they're in some Schwartzenager movie (uhh, ohh, another connection).  

When the shooting stops and the perpetrators are caught, if they haven't already killed themselves, they go through the court system with stone cold, expressionless faces claiming they were driven to it by the actions of others.  

I think it's time for some of these kids lives to really be studied.  To really try and get behind what's really going on that caused this in the first place.  That starts with the parents.  I have a feeling whether the child comes from means, which is the case in many of these incidents, or not, the problems are coming from a breakdown in the parenting.

[RecMar8541]

I think a breakdown in parenting is a huge part of it.

In our society today it takes alot to keep a family afloat.  Mom and Dad both with jobs, taking them away from the home.  I think this leads to a child not recieving the type of guidence that is proper.  I think it leaves them feeling uncared for, in some situations.  I also feel vid games, and some of the stuff on tv these days lends to children not living in reality.  

I also think that parents today dont discipline their children properly.  Perhaps that is because they get so little time with them, they want it to be a good time, and tend to look past alot.  My Dad used to tear that hiney up!!  Of course today thats all but not allowed....  Point is, we knew that when we had done wrong, my parents would react, and punish.  There was accountability.  Kids now have little to no accountability for their actions.  

Remember in the Comlumbine case they found all the bomb making stuff in that kids garage?  Making those bombs took considerable time, collecting the materials, and making them was no small chore.  RIGHT IN THE GARAGE!!  How did the parents not see that?

Now in the VA case, and I hate to say this, but it seems to me that person was just plainly a mental case.  Delusional at the very least.  

In the charles whitman case, at autopsy they found a large tumor on his frontal lobe, the part of the brain that effects decision making.  

I think something has to be done to further help mentally ill persons.  I dont know what the solutions are, God I wish I were that smart, Im not.

 

[Dan:]

I think a breakdown in parenting is a huge part of it.

In our society today it takes alot to keep a family afloat.  Mom and Dad both with jobs, taking them away from the home.  I think this leads to a child not recieving the type of guidence that is proper.  I think it leaves them feeling uncared for, in some situations.  I also feel vid games, and some of the stuff on tv these days lends to children not living in reality.  

I also think that parents today dont discipline their children properly.  Perhaps that is because they get so little time with them, they want it to be a good time, and tend to look past alot.  My Dad used to tear that hiney up!!  Of course today thats all but not allowed....  Point is, we knew that when we had done wrong, my parents would react, and punish.  There was accountability.  Kids now have little to no accountability for their actions.  

Remember in the Comlumbine case they found all the bomb making stuff in that kids garage?  Making those bombs took considerable time, collecting the materials, and making them was no small chore.  RIGHT IN THE GARAGE!!  How did the parents not see that?

Now in the VA case, and I hate to say this, but it seems to me that person was just plainly a mental case.  Delusional at the very least.  

In the charles whitman case, at autopsy they found a large tumor on his frontal lobe, the part of the brain that effects decision making.  

I think something has to be done to further help mentally ill persons.  I dont know what the solutions are, God I wish I were that smart, Im not.

 

Totally agreed.

[Troutfisher]

Same...agreed.

[basspro48]

I was watching the reports the day it happened and it was said that when the guy entered the engineering building he casually walked into classrooms and just unloaded on everybody in the classrooms. I don't see how it is possible to do something like this, how can you just run into a building and kill another human being? How can you just massacre innocent people?  

I have even caught a glimpse of acts like this in my town. I live in Mechanicsville, VA which is in Hanover county, now Hanover used to be a mostly rural county, until the developers got through with it. Now the only rural section left is the part I live in, and soon there will be a subdivision in place of the farm right down from my house. Now all of this retail space and low budget housing projects has brought the all the low-lives in from surrounding counties, TWICE this year my high school has had to go under lock down for ARMED ROBBERY right across the street from my school. During one of the incidents two armed suspects crossed the school grounds before they were arrested.  

Also, now a student at Boston University has been arrested for threatening a copycat shooting like the one at VT

[woodpro1102]

This kid was a nut case.  Gotta love his tomb raider pose at the end of his video though.  Dont know what was going through his head but I am glad we have one less killer to worry about.