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Connecticut school shooting: Reports say more than dozen dead

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  • Da_MuffinzDa_Muffinz Posts: 2,972 balls deep
    I don't even talk about it to people on Facebook or anything because their opinions are way too extreme. People are already making memes about this event. FUCKING DISGUSTING!
  • monicaamonicaa Posts: 7,109 destroyer of motherfuckers
    I can usually find humor in all memes. But the ones I have seen made from this tragedy make me sick. I don't how anyone finds humor in this.
  • Da_MuffinzDa_Muffinz Posts: 2,972 balls deep
    edited December 2012
    monicaa said:

    I can usually find humor in all memes. But the ones I have seen made from this tragedy make me sick. I don't how anyone finds humor in this.

    That's exactly my point. It's like who the fuck do they think is going to laugh at that? They're just trying to get a rise out of people. I've just been avoiding most conversations about this tragedy and honoring the victims in my thoughts.
  • Rex_Capone420Rex_Capone420 Posts: 69,663 spicy boy
    I have never had something that i wasn't directly connected to effect me as much as this...well 9/11 i guess to...But every time i see something about this is wrecks my day...I am so sad and depressed over what happened when i think about it. I was in a good mood today and came home and watched a tribute video a friend posted and i started crying my eyes out....inb4simp....All those familys who lost love ones, all those kids who survived...christmas will never be the same for them...it just breaks my fucking heart :((
  • Rex_Capone420Rex_Capone420 Posts: 69,663 spicy boy
    I had never heard of this before

    Bath School disaster

    The state historic site marker placed on the site.
    The Bath School disaster is the name given to three bombings in Bath Township, Michigan, on May 18, 1927, which killed 38 elementary school children, two teachers, four other adults and the bomber himself; at least 58 people were injured. Most of the victims were children in the second to sixth grades (7–14 years of age [1]) attending the Bath Consolidated School. Their deaths constitute the deadliest mass murder in a school in U.S. history and the fourth-deadliest massacre in U.S. history, behind the Oklahoma City bombing, the Mountain Meadows massacre and 9/11.

    The bomber was school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe, 55, who was enraged about a property tax levied to fund the construction of the school building. He blamed the additional tax for financial hardships which led to foreclosure proceedings against his farm. These events apparently provoked Kehoe to plan his attack. He died in a car bomb he set off after he drove up to the school as the crowd gathered to rescue survivors from the burning school.

    On the morning of May 18, Kehoe murdered his wife by beating her to death, then set his farm buildings afire. As fire fighters arrived at the farm, an explosion devastated the north wing of the school building, killing many schoolchildren. He used a detonator to ignite dynamite and hundreds of pounds of pyrotol which he had secretly planted inside the school over the course of many months. As rescuers started gathering at the school, Kehoe drove up, stopped, and detonated a bomb inside his shrapnel-filled vehicle with his Winchester rifle, killing himself and the school superintendent, and killing and injuring several others. During rescue efforts searchers discovered an additional 500 pounds (230 kg) of unexploded dynamite and pyrotol planted throughout the basement of the school's south wing. Kehoe apparently had intended to blow up and destroy the whole school.
  • GazorpazorpfieldGazorpazorpfield Posts: 22,293 master of ceremonies
    Hey mags I think you're fighting a losing battle. The topic on dr phil was "I think my son is capable i
    Magson13 said:

    Magson13 said:

    Nope. The Optimism Bias shows that parents always see their children as better than other children, and incapable of something so horrid.

    You clearly didn't pay attention to the optimism bias from psychology 101 that you're trying to school me with. Parents tend to think their kids are less likely. Not always. But the optimism bias is more applicable to regular children in regular situations (ie my kids are less likely to get C's)

    Parents are increasingly more aware, however, of antisocialism in kids and are probably more likely to act.
    "Tend to think" implies majority, yet you said parents "often" see something wrong with their kids. It's one or the other, you can't win a debate with two conflicting arguments.
    Have you seen the post "I am Adam Lanza's Mother"
    Woman opens up about loving her son but being terrified, and a lot of parents are finally realizing they aren't alone and need help. They talked about parents being afraid of their kids on the news today and on Dr. Phil the topic was something like "I think my son is capable of killing"
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  • ShaneShane Posts: 15,229 balls deep
    edited December 2012
    i posted that in this thread 2 pages back
  • Rex_Capone420Rex_Capone420 Posts: 69,663 spicy boy

    Hey mags I think you're fighting a losing battle. The topic on dr phil was "I think my son is capable i

    Magson13 said:

    Magson13 said:

    Nope. The Optimism Bias shows that parents always see their children as better than other children, and incapable of something so horrid.

    You clearly didn't pay attention to the optimism bias from psychology 101 that you're trying to school me with. Parents tend to think their kids are less likely. Not always. But the optimism bias is more applicable to regular children in regular situations (ie my kids are less likely to get C's)

    Parents are increasingly more aware, however, of antisocialism in kids and are probably more likely to act.
    "Tend to think" implies majority, yet you said parents "often" see something wrong with their kids. It's one or the other, you can't win a debate with two conflicting arguments.
    Have you seen the post "I am Adam Lanza's Mother"
    Woman opens up about loving her son but being terrified, and a lot of parents are finally realizing they aren't alone and need help. They talked about parents being afraid of their kids on the news today and on Dr. Phil the topic was something like "I think my son is capable of killing"

    stopped reading at The topic on dr phil was
  • GazorpazorpfieldGazorpazorpfield Posts: 22,293 master of ceremonies
    My moms always watching it when I get home from work, whatevs
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  • Rex_Capone420Rex_Capone420 Posts: 69,663 spicy boy
    HES NOT EVEN A DOCTOR [-(
  • Me_Me_ Posts: 13,701 salt miner
    rexum420 said:

    I have never had something that i wasn't directly connected to effect me as much as this...well 9/11 i guess to...But every time i see something about this is wrecks my day...I am so sad and depressed over what happened when i think about it. I was in a good mood today and came home and watched a tribute video a friend posted and i started crying my eyes out....inb4simp....All those familys who lost love ones, all those kids who survived...christmas will never be the same for them...it just breaks my fucking heart :((

    Me too. I saw 9-11 from The Jersey side of the river and that hurt alot and yeah kids died but this one really stung. They both stung but this one....I don't know...kinda different..Everytime I see pics of those kids I get tears in my eyes.

  • WakeOfAshesWakeOfAshes Posts: 21,665 destroyer of motherfuckers
    monicaa said:
    that made me misty eyed.

    I really like that song, but it often times puzzles me why I could like a song praising God when I don't think God even exists.
  • monicaamonicaa Posts: 7,109 destroyer of motherfuckers
    I love that song too wake.. and I also thinkkk the exact same thing. I'm far from religious. But there's something about that song
  • monicaamonicaa Posts: 7,109 destroyer of motherfuckers
    Oh and when i saw that on the voice yesterday it made me cry like a fucking child haha
  • BlindGuardian93BlindGuardian93 Posts: 4,988 jayfacer
    edited December 2012
    My little sisters school has been on lockdown for an hour now :(
    I've been lost in endless seas My heart died long ago I curse my failures as I fall from you
  • monicaamonicaa Posts: 7,109 destroyer of motherfuckers
    Its probably my after-having-a-baby hormones, but every time I hear someone talking about this, or posting pictures about it.. I cry. Ugh . I still can't wrap my head around why this kid did this. They're now calling out that he had untreated autism?
  • mrAPEmrAPE Posts: 39,476 moneytalker
    He had asperger syndrome. Its a type of autism. Some can show violent tendencies. Either way he had a history of mental health issues which is why his mom did home schooling.
    You tryin to be a hero fool? You wanna see badass mother fucker?! I'll show ya a badass!!!
  • laurjohn2laurjohn2 Posts: 6,951 balls deep
    hope this doesn't mean that people are going to start going after people with autism / aspergers......
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