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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?

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The most dangerous kind

[american-arcane.livejournal.com]

A person who thinks he or she has nothing to lose--and has already accepted that they will not leave a situation alive--is the most dangerous kind of perpetrator of violence against others.

I think everyone's lucky he went with guns and not explosives.

And everyone would have been better off if he had either just offed himself in private or, preferably, sought some serious professional help somewhere along the way.

Re: The most dangerous kind

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Agreed - though I wonder how he stayed so very alone that he didn't have some sort of support network. He didn't get laid? Well, a lot of ugly people get laid, a lot of dumb people get laid, and some really shitty assholes get laid. Whatever was wrong with this guy, somehow he went off on the tangent of "revenge" when potentially the same amount of energy into effort to grow in some way would have resulted in some measure of success as he measured it.

Heck he had a real job and everything. If it weren't for the hatred of women and minorities he could have made something of himself.

Re: The most dangerous kind

[american-arcane.livejournal.com]

Oh, indeed!

I'm pretty sure he created a self-fulfilling prophecy of incompetence when it came to relationships. It made him something special... the one guy in the whole wide world who couldn't get a good woman. And, by his own description of his family life, he was never anyone special there.

He very easily blew off any attempts anyone else seem to have made to reach out to him--he did have some dates, got invited to parties, was commended on good work he did at the office. His isolation was self-propagated.

He wanted so desperately to be special. Sadly, he chose to do it in the most self-destructive way possible.

The real telling sign, for me at least, is how it all ended. When the real gung-ho kill'emall bombastic mass killers would be blazenly taking their shots at the surprised crowds and staring stoically for the cameras, he turned off the lights. What some would consider his most glorious moment--the culmination of many months of planning and much hard work--was obscured not just from those present, but from himself as well... in the dark.