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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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[kattrags.livejournal.com]

They didn't post this bit on the Legal blog: He was apparently feeling discriminated against for being white.

" November 5, 2008.
Planned to do this in the summer but figure to stick around to see the election outcome. This particular one got so much attention and I was just curious. Not like I give a flying fcuk who won, since this exit plan was already planned. Good luck to Obama! He will be successful. The liberal media LOVES him. Amerika has chosen The Black Man. Good! In light of this I got ideas outside of Obama's plans for the economy and such. Here it is: Every black man should get a young white girl hoe to hone up on. Kinda a reverse indentured servitude thing. Long ago, many a older white male landowner had a young Negro wench girl for his desires. Bout' time tables are turned on that shit. Besides, dem young white hoez dig da bruthrs! LOL. More so than they dig the white dudes! Every daddy know when he sends his little girl to college, she be bangin a bruthr real good. I saw it. "Not my little girl", daddy says! (Yeah right!!) Black dudes have thier choice of best white hoez. You do the math, there are enough young white so all the brothers can each have one for 3 or 6 months or so."

[blindtillnow.livejournal.com]

i miss Kindred: the Embraced. sure Aaron Spelling turned it into Vampire-0210 - but still....

-s

[kelowna.livejournal.com]

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.

I think he'd have had more success if he didn't turn the lights off. Strange decision. Perhaps he didn't want to be seen, or he didn't want to look the people he was killing in the eyes... Either way, not the best circumstance for accurate shooting.

--k

[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.

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.

[unapologetic.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

f course the wingers are out saying if it was easier to get guns then this sort of thing wouldn't happen

Not that I think they aren't saying this, but I was just talking to Higgins about this yesterday (in re VT shooting) and I'd love to back it up with an example. Do you happen to have a good link to people saying this?