<div class="quote_poster">phunDamentalz Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">What also annoys me even more is how the media immediately tries to blame someone - saying so-and-so psychotherapist had seen all the signs and had failed to do anything... That's easy to do in retrospect. How many of us would be able to predict this were we in the situation? The thing about acts like this is the criminal is usually more than adept at hiding his plans, manipulating people, and keeping up the appearance of 'everything is fine'. Our society always wants to blame someone, but in this case, the blame should be pointed at 1) the kid who committed these acts and 2) a gun culture that allows easy access to guns to enable him to do it, NOT on authorities or therapists who could have stopped this from happening. Nobody can stop this kind of thing can happening. It says a lot about where we are at as a society when this thing is not shocking to us. At least for me, anyway, none of this was shocking, the videos, the photos. I think with 9-11, the DC sniper, beheadings in Iraq, Abu Ghraib, I don't know WHAT would shock me at this point, but it would take more than this for sure........</div> I would attribute it to materialism, selfishness, and the fact most people don't have the time to really sit down and put everything into perspective.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">What also annoys me even more is how the media immediately tries to blame someone - saying so-and-so psychotherapist had seen all the signs and had failed to do anything... That's easy to do in retrospect. How many of us would be able to predict this were we in the situation? The thing about acts like this is the criminal is usually more than adept at hiding his plans, manipulating people, and keeping up the appearance of 'everything is fine'. Our society always wants to blame someone, but in this case, the blame should be pointed at 1) the kid who committed these acts and 2) a gun culture that allows easy access to guns to enable him to do it, NOT on authorities or therapists who could have stopped this from happening. Nobody can stop this kind of thing can happening.</div> Yes, it's getting really annoying with this case. Last night on CNN they brang on a dummy that the anchorman could argue with. "They knew he had mental issues. If it were me I would have expelled him from the school." He did change his argument from expell to suspend him about a minute later in the broadcast. "I would suspend him until he got a note from a psychiatrist saying he was mentally stable." Idiots agree with that because it sounds like the right course of action after the matter, but there's no way anyone would agree with this before the shootings. ------ <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">You have never felt a single ounce of pain your whole life. Did you want to inject as much misery in our lives as you can just because you can? ” “ You had everything you wanted. Your Mercedes wasn’t enough, you brats. Your golden necklaces weren’t enough, you snobs. Your trust fund wasn’t enough. Your vodka and Cognac weren’t enough. All your debaucheries weren’t enough. Those weren’t enough to fulfill your hedonistic needs. You had everything. ” I didn’t have to do this. I could have left. I could have fled. But no, I will no longer run. It’s not for me. For my children, for my brothers and sisters that you ****, I did it for them… When the time came, I did it. I had to. </div> In one of the tapes he said something about stomping on his peoples necks. Maybe he's referring to American intervention in Korea. Still, nothing can justify what he did.
There were three copycat incidents today in my area. The Vocational-Technical school was on lockdown because they said there was someone with a gun in the building. There were a lot of kids from my school there taking an engineering class. Then there was a community college and Kutztown University both had lockdown drills because of a shooting threat. And another high school in my area had a lockdown. All ended up to be threats, and thank God nothing more.
There have been lockdowns and threats all over the country since this and factor in the Columbine anniversary and the ever so popular 4/20.
