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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 21-December 06 Member No.: 10,416  |
Yes it is. |
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Apr 17 2007, 07:20 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 21-December 06 Member No.: 10,416 |
Sort of the same thing happened here after Hurricane Isabell. One day of armed and open patrols was enough to convince the bad people to go elsewhere. It puzzles me, this call for guns on campus. Sounds like a really bad idea. Letting drunk, wild college kids have guns? Surely we've all seen the videos on the Internet about the stupid stunts and fights they have now. This shouldn't turn into a debate about gun laws, as was asked earlier, but just plain common sense says that this would be a bad idea. |
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Apr 17 2007, 07:20 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...I was waiting for this. Last night on CNN he was a guest of Larry King. I almost puked. I'm surpirsed the religious right hasn't yet come down on RPGs like they have in the past. |
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Apr 17 2007, 07:25 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...not quite what I implied, but yes, a total sleazeball nutcase would probably pull a stunt like that. |
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Apr 17 2007, 07:35 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 21-December 06 Member No.: 10,416 |
My point being the girlfriend was the only one he needed to hurt, so why do it on the quad in front of all those peole who had nothing to do with the problem? |
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Apr 17 2007, 07:36 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,109 Joined: 16-October 03 From: Raleigh, NC Member No.: 5,729 |
Just a couple of clarifications here. #1 Depending upon the state you live in, drunk and wild college kids can already legally own guns. #2 My comment about incidents like this being the precursor for wide-spread gun ownership was from a GAME perspective, not real life. #3 For my opinion about "guns on campus", see my original quote:
And as a final note, I [illegally] carried a hand-gun on campus the entire time I was in college (4 years +). I also went to my share of parties and got PLENTY drunk. Not once was my pistol involved in any of those types of incidents. |
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Apr 17 2007, 07:37 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 993 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 313 |
Give them a few days. I'm sure they'll be coming out of the woodwork soon enough. |
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Apr 17 2007, 07:45 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 332 Joined: 19-September 05 From: Nashville, Tn Member No.: 7,761 |
i'm not entirely sure that my ex-girlfriend of 5 years was not envolved in this. i will hopefuly find out later today. As i see her father at work regualry.
as for my 2 cents. the country with the lowest violent crime per citizan in the world, also has the hightst gun to citizan ratio in the world, switzerland When austrila baned guns, crime went up 14% in 7 days, violent crime went up 25% When you are in a sean of extream violence it is a shock. some people act, some people react. At no point can you draw coralation between a single act and an ongoing event. I think the the US. has been demasculated. |
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Apr 17 2007, 07:53 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...involve others in his "pain" (an old cliche but misery loves company). |
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Apr 17 2007, 08:00 PM
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Shadow Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 3,737 Joined: 2-June 06 From: Secret Tunnels under the UK (South West) Member No.: 8,636 |
In the UK here, far from Virginia. But I will be praying for the victims and those close to them. And the killer himself, too. I think whatever our beliefs on the issues involved, that we can all send our prayers or hopes to those who have lost someone today. -Khadim. |
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Apr 17 2007, 08:07 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,109 Joined: 16-October 03 From: Raleigh, NC Member No.: 5,729 |
On that note, read this about Kennesaw, GA (Gun Town, USA) |
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Apr 17 2007, 08:25 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,180 Joined: 22-January 07 From: Rochester, NY Member No.: 10,737 |
and it turns out that the shooter was a disturbed english student, not a computer gaming geek. *sigh* |
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Apr 17 2007, 08:34 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Now try to expand that correlation. How do the ten countries with the lowest crime-per-citizen rates compare in gun-to-citizen ratios? The ten countries with the highest gun-to-citizen ratios, how do they fair in the crime-per-citizen rates? What about ancillary laws? I believe that most cantons are pretty restrictive about who they issue permits to to carry firearms in public. There's a difference between gun ownership and carrying—do you have statistics there? ~J |
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Apr 17 2007, 08:43 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 571 Joined: 9-January 05 From: In the 9th circle of hell Member No.: 6,950 |
Am I the only one who wants to launch paople who make assanine statments like Dr. Phil out of a trebuchet?
Damn, guess I've played too many of those violent games. :S I've played violent games for a long time. I've never gone on a killing spree. MOSt people who have played these games have not gone on a killing spree, nor would they. Maybe with some people it might cause what he is talking about, but those people are already sociopaths, he defeated his own fragging argument if he bothered to look at it logically. Maybe thats asking too much. (/rant) |
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Apr 17 2007, 08:53 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Dudes, murder is never a solution of a break-up. If he loved her so much he should have kidnapped her, drugged her, kept her disoriented, and love-bombed her until she would do anything for him, including drink the green koolade.
You might want to consider a tazer and NIJ Level III body armor. |
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Apr 17 2007, 09:02 PM
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Dumpshock Widow aka Mrs Fisty Group: Members Posts: 2,443 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next to Him Member No.: 6,929 |
Okay, seriously... that's creepy. |
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Apr 17 2007, 09:22 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
But sensible!
~J |
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Apr 17 2007, 09:33 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,548 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
Tasers are illegal in most of Maryland, unfortunately. I've semi-seriously considered a class III jacket for him, but I suspect he wouldn't wear it half the time (although considering the other geeks at the school, he wouldn't look especially out of place while there. I remember last time I visited a 5'4", 170lb chubby kid walked into the cafeteria with a dracula cape and fake teeth. Hrm... Maybe I really should worry...)
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Apr 17 2007, 09:37 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Lovelorn collegians could learn a great deal from the CIA and many successful doomsday cults. I wouldn't recommend it over wild unprotected rebound sex with the campus slut followed by a big shot of penicillin and a date with a bottle of delousing shampoo; but I would recommend it over shooting 32 people.
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Apr 17 2007, 09:53 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 21-December 06 Member No.: 10,416 |
I wouldn't recommend it either, because every detail would be in the campus grapevine before the regret even had time to kick in. Be better off scraping up a couple hundred bucks, going out of town and hiring some "talent" from a reputable agency. Still need the penecillin and all that, but with anonymity. |
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Apr 17 2007, 10:07 PM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
Alright, I think that this one has run it's course. I do appreciate threads like this because I think they help Dumpshock and DSers be a bit more of a community. But this has gone past the point of being useful and then some.
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