I was being sarcastic. The lyrics I quoted were from “God’s Away on Business”, which seems like an appropriate song most days.
Sorry. Wasn’t obvious.
The Houston Chronicle is reporting that an ambulance has been dispatched to the shooter’s home. No reports of any injuries or deaths there. The shooter is also identified as Greek. And his now-defunct Facebook page was adorned with Nazi imagery.
This shooting has hit me harder than the others have, because I lived in Santa Fe, TX when I was a kid. My sister went to that high school.
It’s a pretty small town, which is weird because a high-profile things keep happening there. Decades ago there was a big KKK rally which made national news, and then there was a huge debate over school prayer because that very high school had prayers before games (as I recall).
Ironically, the district was sued for school prayer in 1995. I seem to recall that it wasn’t as much for having a prayer before the football games itself as that the prayer was representative of a culture that harassed those who weren’t conservative protestant (ie, Catholic, Jewish, Agnostic…)
A cousin graduated from that school in the mid-1980s. When he was a senior, he bragged to me about how they had the Klan in town. He moved away later and seems to have become more tolerant.
I don’t understand your point. Lots of people have thought of school massacres before the “recent batch with all the media coverage”, either because they committed it, were victimized by it, or read about it.
Perhaps I’d understand better if you answered your question: who do you think had thought about it before this recent batch?
Fox News blames video games.
A poem from me:
Thoughts and prayers
Teddy bears
Never again
How long has it been
Light a candle
It’s such a scandal
Tut tut tut
Another gun nut
Second amendment
How can you defend it
Now’s not the time
Now’s not the time
So would the NRA support a ban on pretend guns in video games? I’m not sure they have thought this through.
Just to provide some data, death penalty states have higher murder rates than non-death penalty states.
Cite.
The First Amendment is actually just part of the “prefatory clause” of the Second Amendment. Mere decoration. The operative clause is just the part about bearing arms. The remainder of the Bill of Rights are various “trailing clauses”, which I’m sure you’ll remember from your grammar school days, are also non-essential, decorative language.
Hope this helps.
And don’t forget articles 1 to 7 of the prologue to the second amendment.
Very nice.
Born to kill
Even if there were a link (which I doubt very much there is) it wouldn’t make any difference anymore. Thanks to chat rooms, Instagram, etc. etc., you can get all the glamorization you want of anything a twisted human mind can come up with.
I had a distant relative who was using insulin to aid her eating disorder. Ever hear of that? I sure hadn’t, but according to her, there’s a whole online subculture about it, with plenty of encouragement and tips just a click away.
You don’t need “the media” to get ideas and encouragement.
Used his dad’s guns. And the idiot up her in IL the other day used his mom’s. How about liability for parents who fail to adequately secure their weapons, if they get used by their minor children?
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It is difficult to secure anything in the home against a really determined high-school-aged person.
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The father probably has committed no crimes, but will undoubtedly suffer greatly as a result of the murderer’s actions. I think the father’s punishment alread exceeds his crime.
I mean, I don’t think he should have had guns around in the first place, but whatever mistakes he made are probably duplicated literally a million times in other Texas households alone.
y’know, I’m really fucking sick of “responsible” gun owners. There is responsible and “responsible”. If the firearm is secured, then the owner is responsible. This whole horseshit about “It was ““secured”” but a determined high schooler got it so I have not responsibility beyond my personal guilt” fucking meme.
It is absolute. By definition, responsible gun owners have a firearm that no one else can access, if someone else got said firearm then it was not secure/responsible. Full stop and no free pass.
The fucking scum gun filth will be right in front with their thoughts and prayers, no doubt.
In the 1950’s women wore gloves and men dressed up to go shopping. The idea of a woman swearing in public would have been scandalous.
In the 60’s and 70’s I carried a knife with me every day to school from grade school to high school… I still remember a nun asking me for my boy scout knife to open a box because her scissors couldn’t cut through the tape. That would have been 4th grad.
I learned to shoot in grade school. I made a 12 inch knife in shop class in high school. the rural schools had gun clubs and the kids brought guns to school so they could shoot after class.
“what is the world coming to” sums it up nicely.