School Shooting in Connecticut - Multiple Fatalities

[Samozaryadnyastan]

While we certainly didn't have a police station attached (the only station I know of serves my area plus more, and is six miles away), though my primary school certainly did have some sort of 'neighbourhood bobby'. Came to the school like three times a month for assemblies.
Don't know if there was some kind of programme, or the guy was just friendly with the school.

Never a bad idea to have an official officer come through and make friendly with the kids. It shows them that they can bring problems to them, and trust the officers to help them in cases of abuse or distress.

It wasn't like he had an office in the school, he literally came in, made some sort of 'be good kids/don't talk to strangers/cars are dangerous k' speech a couple of times a month and was off.

Was always the same guy though, and he was a really nice bloke.

[Gauthier]

Tell me about it. I suffer from PTSD (shocking, I know), and I own two weapons (currently, used to have four), when I bring this up people lose their shit. It's fun to watch, really. They don't seem to understand that I can:

A. Be stable, on a good regimen of medication, getting fantastic Mental Health support (Go Veterans Administration! You guys are doing good, keep getting better!), and still have PTSD.
B. Own a weapon without carrying it on me.
C. Be pro-gun registration, and pro-gun.
D. In a wheelchair.

My stigmas have stigmas.

Fuck me, how do you get out of bed every morning without looking in the mirror, realize you're the subject of a particular Green Day Song from the mid 90s, then go right back into bed?

But really, veteran myself, do as much work as I can for Wounded Warriors. It's good that you know you're not alone.

Is it a bad sign I was expecting "American Idiot"?

[Samozaryadnyastan]

Fuck me, how do you get out of bed every morning without looking in the mirror, realize you're the subject of a particular Green Day Song from the mid 90s, then go right back into bed?

But really, veteran myself, do as much work as I can for Wounded Warriors. It's good that you know you're not alone.

Is it a bad sign I was expecting "American Idiot"?

I think it's more a sign that you greatly undervalue Dominus' humour

[Frisivisia]

Fuck me, how do you get out of bed every morning without looking in the mirror, realize you're the subject of a particular Green Day Song from the mid 90s, then go right back into bed?

But really, veteran myself, do as much work as I can for Wounded Warriors. It's good that you know you're not alone.

Is it a bad sign I was expecting "American Idiot"?

American Idiot, totally from the nineties.

[The Emerald Dawn]

Tell me about it. I suffer from PTSD (shocking, I know), and I own two weapons (currently, used to have four), when I bring this up people lose their shit. It's fun to watch, really. They don't seem to understand that I can:

A. Be stable, on a good regimen of medication, getting fantastic Mental Health support (Go Veterans Administration! You guys are doing good, keep getting better!), and still have PTSD.
B. Own a weapon without carrying it on me.
C. Be pro-gun registration, and pro-gun.
D. In a wheelchair.

My stigmas have stigmas.

Fuck me, how do you get out of bed every morning without looking in the mirror, realize you're the subject of a particular Green Day Song from the mid 90s, then go right back into bed?

But really, veteran myself, do as much work as I can for Wounded Warriors. It's good that you know you're not alone.

Seriously, I wake up, I look at the mirror, and then I just curl into a demi-fetal position in my wheelchair until my wife carts me to work where I'm forced to be productive by "the man".

[The Zeonic States]

Fuck me, how do you get out of bed every morning without looking in the mirror, realize you're the subject of a particular Green Day Song from the mid 90s, then go right back into bed?

But really, veteran myself, do as much work as I can for Wounded Warriors. It's good that you know you're not alone.

Seriously, I wake up, I look at the mirror, and then I just curl into a demi-fetal position in my wheelchair until my wife carts me to work where I'm forced to be productive by "the man".

[JuNii]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/pro ... 02032.html

guess the Batshit church can't stand other people getting the spotlight...

for the first time, I'm actually rooting for Anonymous.

[French Union]

One day that whatever Baptist Church is going to piss of the wrong person to mess with and their going to be someones kill list.

[The Zeonic States]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/protest-westboro-baptist-church-erupts-185802032.html

guess the Batshit church can't stand other people getting the spotlight...

for the first time, I'm actually rooting for Anonymous.

Go pasty faced Hackers!

[The Emerald Dawn]

One day that whatever Baptist Church is going to piss of the wrong person to mess with and their going to be someones kill list.

And that will mean they won.

[Typhlochactas]

Had a moment of silence at school today.

[Gauthier]

One day that whatever Baptist Church is going to piss of the wrong person to mess with and their going to be someones kill list.

And that will mean they won.

What would be better is removing their tax exemption, bankrupting them, buying their property and turning it into an LGBT rights center.

[The Zeonic States]

And that will mean they won.

What would be better is removing their tax exemption, bankrupting them, buying their property and turning it into an LGBT rights center.

That would be some sort of poetic justice

[Typhlochactas]

One day that whatever Baptist Church is going to piss of the wrong person to mess with and their going to be someones kill list.

And that will mean they won.

Umm. I don't think their objective is to get killed.

[The Emerald Dawn]

And that will mean they won.

Umm. I don't think their objective is to get killed.

No, but getting killed would simply validate their worldview. It would be the ultimate expression of martyrdom.

Look at Gauthier's statement above, THAT is how you get even.

[JuNii]

And that will mean they won.

What would be better is removing their tax exemption, bankrupting them, buying their property and turning it into an LGBT rights center.

[Chronic Hypersomnia]

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petiti ... h/YrKbHYtV

[Typhlochactas]

Umm. I don't think their objective is to get killed.

No, but getting killed would simply validate their worldview. It would be the ultimate expression of martyrdom.

Look at Gauthier's statement above, THAT is how you get even.

No, getting killed has never validated anyone or their views.

Note that I've never argued that killing them is a good way of getting even.

[The Emerald Dawn]

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/investigate-irs-tax-exempt-status-westboro-baptist-church/YrKbHYtV

The problem is, they are a church. There's no getting around that with the way that the law is currently written.

They don't actively participate in politics, they just actively demonstrate their opinions.

I'm not sure what loopholes exist that would allow the government to shoot them down as a religious body, unless they qualify as a hate group.

[The Emerald Dawn]

No, but getting killed would simply validate their worldview. It would be the ultimate expression of martyrdom.

Look at Gauthier's statement above, THAT is how you get even.

No, getting killed has never validated anyone or their views.

Note that I've never argued that killing them is a good way of getting even.

....You do know that AD doesn't stand for "Administrative Director" right?

[Coccygia]

Umm. I don't think their objective is to get killed.

No, but getting killed would simply validate their worldview. It would be the ultimate expression of martyrdom.

Look at Gauthier's statement above, THAT is how you get even.

Fine, let's "validate their worldview". A lotta good that'll do 'em in Jihannum* Hell.


*Sorry, I thought at first you meant Muslim terrorists. I think you will agree that's an understandable mistake. BTW, it does go for them as well.

[Typhlochactas]

No, getting killed has never validated anyone or their views.

Note that I've never argued that killing them is a good way of getting even.

....You do know that AD doesn't stand for "Administrative Director" right?

[Tmutarakhan]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/protest-westboro-baptist-church-erupts-185802032.html

guess the Batshit church can't stand other people getting the spotlight...

for the first time, I'm actually rooting for Anonymous.

We already had a whole thread about the Phelpses wanting to stick their noses in; it got locked because of a few too many suggestions that it was time to shoot them.

Is it a bad sign I was expecting "American Idiot"?

I was underwhelmed, if that's a word-- no it's not, cause I looked it up.... (not Green Day but somehow I was put in mind of it)

[The Emerald Dawn]

....You do know that AD doesn't stand for "Administrative Director" right?

Think really hard, I'm positive you'll pick it up.

No, but getting killed would simply validate their worldview. It would be the ultimate expression of martyrdom.

Look at Gauthier's statement above, THAT is how you get even.

Fine, let's "validate their worldview". A lotta good that'll do 'em in Jihannum.

You know, it is a rare reference that I can't get. But the only Jihannum I know of is from EQ2.

[Nabari vampires]

didn't the man who did the shooting kill him self after?