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Rocknrule (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:20 AM Original message |
Was Virginia Tech a generation-defining moment? |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:21 AM Response to Original message |
1. No. nt |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
2. Absolutely not, except for the folks at VT. |
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otherlander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:51 AM Response to Reply #2 |
40. I don't think that the country |
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fightthegoodfightnow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
3. I Don't Know but as a Tech Alumnus...... |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:28 AM Response to Original message |
4. if it happened during normal times, it would be |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:39 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. that's what I was gonna say... |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:30 AM Response to Original message |
5. it will be for some, not others... |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
6. There are no generation defining moments and there never will be again |
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karlrschneider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
8. No. |
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billbuckhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:42 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. In other nations similar incidents have changed their guns laws |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:22 AM Response to Reply #9 |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:56 AM Response to Reply #19 |
25. How long until he mentions the gun homicide rate in the UK? |
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billbuckhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:21 PM Response to Reply #25 |
59. 46 gun homicides last year in the UK, the lowest in over twenty years |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-01-07 02:37 AM Response to Reply #59 |
60. 800+ homicides last year, the highest in 40 years! |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-01-07 03:53 AM Response to Reply #59 |
64. Quite simply not true. Not even close. nm |
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NYVet (822 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:32 AM Response to Reply #9 |
22. I must disagree with you |
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iverglas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:35 AM Response to Reply #22 |
34. and I'll disagree with you |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-01-07 03:52 AM Response to Reply #22 |
63. it would help |
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davidwparker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
10. No. I live in the Commonwealth and I don't even think about it anymore. |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:57 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. same here |
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Rocknrule (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:16 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. Seeing as I live in CO, fairly often |
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dailykoff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
11. It served its function, |
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Beelzebud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:58 AM Response to Original message |
13. No. Outside VT, no one talks about it at all anymore. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
14. It was to anyone who was directly affected |
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billbuckhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:03 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. A mass murder that could only have been committed with guns |
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karlrschneider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:23 AM Response to Reply #15 |
20. Timothy McVeigh used easily obtained fertilizer, genius. |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:32 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Not Exactly |
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billbuckhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:27 AM Response to Reply #20 |
32. AND LATER SAID HE WISHED HE WOULD HAVE USED A GUN |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:07 AM Response to Reply #15 |
29. And to someone obsessed with guns |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-01-07 03:55 AM Response to Reply #15 |
65. Too bad he wasn't limited to a box cutter, right Bill? |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
16. Yeah, and Collective Soul is the new Oasis. |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:14 AM Response to Original message |
17. No, it is another ongoing tragedy |
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keroro gunsou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:50 AM Response to Reply #17 |
23. i object! |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:55 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. It's not media in and of itself |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-01-07 04:23 AM Response to Reply #23 |
68. Yup, video games don't cause school shootings any more than pictures of skinny women cause Anorexia |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:58 AM Response to Reply #17 |
26. I know, just look at the Bath School Bombing. |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:37 AM Response to Reply #26 |
35. Andrew Kehoe was 55 at the time |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:42 AM Response to Reply #35 |
37. So then it must have been those horrible 19th video games. |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 12:06 PM Response to Reply #37 |
44. The answer is Columbine and Virginia Tech |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 12:10 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. Columbine and VT greatly affected America? |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 12:25 PM Response to Reply #46 |
48. Supposedly, he had enough to pay off his debt |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 12:27 PM Response to Reply #48 |
50. Blaming video games... blaming lack of prayer... |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 12:35 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. I'm blaming lack of parenting, at least in large part |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 12:47 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. Blaming parents is all the rage too. |
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Rocknrule (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 02:06 PM Response to Reply #26 |
53. Yea, and God must've played alot of SimCity |
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Perky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:00 AM Response to Original message |
27. I think it is all but forgottten |
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qdemn7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
28. Nope, absolutely not. |
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HuffleClaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:13 AM Response to Original message |
30. No n/t |
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iverglas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
31. the Montreal massacre was for Canada |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:39 AM Response to Reply #31 |
36. An interesting aside, it's the "Featured Story" on Wikipedia today n/t |
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iverglas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:46 AM Response to Reply #36 |
38. interesting indeed, thanks |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:55 AM Response to Reply #38 |
42. Sometimes it seems random |
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piedmont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
33. no, for exactly the reasons you gave. nt |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
39. No way. It's virtually forgotten already, IMHO. |
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Mike Daniels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
41. Nope |
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insane_cratic_gal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
43. Would you compare it to the Columbine shootings? |
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Rocknrule (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 02:23 PM Response to Reply #43 |
54. Yes, I agree |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 07:48 PM Response to Reply #54 |
57. Also, Kent State was perpetrated by the government... |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
45. no i don't think so |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
47. I don't think so. I believe that Columbine was the generation |
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lies and propaganda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
49. No. Katrina was. |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 07:53 PM Response to Reply #49 |
58. Agreed. (n/t) |
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JacquesMolay (413 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
55. I think it was another day in America ... |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-01-07 02:52 AM Response to Reply #55 |
62. It was less than 19 hours in America. Not even a whole day |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
56. No, because times are different and people are jaded to this type of thing |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-01-07 02:49 AM Response to Original message |
61. Nope |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-01-07 04:13 AM Response to Original message |
66. No. 12/12/2000 was this generation's defining moment |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-01-07 04:17 AM Response to Original message |
67. No, but I think Columbine was |
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