Posted by BrewsterGuy at ac8ae865.ipt.aol.com on October 12, 2000 at 21:28:24:
In Reply to: Why? posted by Neil on October 12, 2000 at 21:11:54:
: : : And I hope you don't blame video games and movies for those assholes.
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: : No, I think it is retarded to blame movies, music or games for these type of things but I just did not think that Columbine was something that should be joked about.
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: Why?
: Why does this continue to capture the public imagination so well? Why do people who are otherwise intelligent people consider the actual shooting to be somehow shocking and/or deviant from the normal events? Why are people who can ordinarily handle good, healthy gallows humor treat this one, reasonably minor event, as sacrosanct?
: I say fuck that!
: The only reason this mean *shit* to people is that they got tv cameras in there. Similar events happen fairly regularly and people pass right by them and joke healthily about them even. Similar numbers of people die and people joke and move on. It's a healthy part of the healing process.
That's not the point. Kids bring guns to school & killing other kids is a fuckin trajedy, whether it is 1 dead, 12 dead or 100. Just because it happens regularly doesn't make it okay to joke about.
This is the last I am going to post about this subject because it is going to blow up into a huge argument that has no place on this board.
Jimbo