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[vicarz]

I was voicing how frustrating I find true blood - everyone is always on the verge of overcoming something, yet if nothing goes wrong they manage to screw it up themselves...and hearing my words I realized I had been sucked into a soap opera. Hot people having sex, drama and insantiy, with vampires. A vampire soap, and I fell for it.

NOTE - when our dumb bro is dancing with a mask on - the song in the background is Jonny McGovern's "Soccer Practice"

Another mass shooting: George Sodini http://abovethelaw.com/2009/08/kl_gates_shooter_george_sodini.php#more
Decent looking guy who quite openly went on a rampage because he couldn't get a date. It's getting curious that we live in a world where any lone disenfranchised actor can take out their wrath on dozens to thousands. This one with two guns and 9 months of planning only took 3 lives and then his own - it must be harder than it looks. He seems unusually frustrated with only one thing - he felt like a loser and I can understand the mentality "If I can't have it, at least I can take it away." Lonesome guy, terrorist, with technology it's past the point where you can prevent someone from killing a bunch if they're willing to sacrifice their life in turn. Of course the wingers are out saying if it was easier to get guns then this sort of thing wouldn't happen...as if the girls in the latin aerobics class were all strapped and loaded when he walked in with a gym bag.

If everyone who gives up hope, who is frustrated, who directs their frustration as anger towards others, can kill...do we just accept that mass shootings are a fact of life? How can they be prevented? Even if you take guns away people can make their own bombs (some already do this). What's the solution?

Comments

[desiringmachine.livejournal.com]

i don't consider myself anti-gun and i disagree with a lot of gun control laws we have here but it seriously makes me afraid that so many pro-gun people seem to think that more guns = utopia. if somebody was planning on killing themselves at the end anyway the fact that everybody in the room is armed isn't going to stop them. if you are armed with a gun but it's in a holster and secured and a guy in an alley leaps in front of you with his already drawn you will probably not have time to get it out, unless you are a damn ninja.

i remember the talk about how students at VA tech should have been allowed to be armed & then Cho wouldn't have shot as many people. but if there had been a proper system in place to prevent a clearly disturbed person from buying a gun he wouldn't have shot anybody. besides that, i would be very uncomfortable walking around all day on a campus where everybody was armed. how would shoving a gun into the hands of a few thousand 18-19 year olds away from their parents for the first time make us safer? college kids aren't all brilliant well balanced little boyscouts. i just do not get it.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

You don't understand - guns aren't the cause of the fact that people can murder dozens of people every time they get a distressing pimple on their nose. It's the lack of guns for people being shot at that cause the problem. You totally have the wrong focus. Guns good, 4 legs baaaad.

[panthergirl.livejournal.com]

Lurker's response= Work just put me through a class for concealed carry. Va laws state that anyone who has ever been involuntarily committed is not legally allowed to own a gun. So, if you want to grow up to shoot lots of people in a gym in VA, and you know you are crazy, don't go to a shrink.