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Yes, and the kid deserved to die. I'm sorry, but he gets *NO* pity from me.
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Written by: Lurch
"Deserved" is probably too harsh a word to use. But *he* is the one who initiated the confrontation. He is the one who brought deadly force into the situation. He created a 'you or me' situation, and he lost. Why would you think he deserves any better? Would you have been happier if an innocent citizen was gunned down for a couple bucks, or fought back and put a criminal in his place? It's not vigilantism.
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Written by: Lurch
"Deserved" is probably too harsh a word to use. But *he* is the one who initiated the confrontation. He is the one who brought deadly force into the situation. He created a 'you or me' situation, and he lost. Why would you think he deserves any better? Would you have been happier if an innocent citizen was gunned down for a couple bucks, or fought back and put a criminal in his place? It's not vigilantism.
Written by: jeff(fake)
Firstly, your attitude to this is troubling. Everyone deserves better than death. You don't know his life, or the social pressures he was under. Had you lived his life, you might have done the same.
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Written by: ]So if as you say, only a couple of the 220 people killed in American school shootings in the last six years actually died, what happend to the rest? Did they miraculously wake up and find themselves not dead?[/quote
First off lets examine this 220 stat a little more closely. As I was trying to say before, people are sensationalizing school shootings, and putting anything and everything they can into the category to up the number and make it look worse than it actually is. The "220" that you state actually comes from a CDC and PDVP study done from 1994 to 1999. It includes all violent deaths on campus. While the victim was on their way to or from school, attending, or traveling to or from a school event. That means that if a hobo was shot by another hobo, at 4 in the morning, and they happened to be on school property, it's counted as a school shooting. If a pregnant woman dies, it's counted as two deaths. If a violent criminal is shot by police on school property, it's counted as a school shooting. Suicides on school property are school shootings.. Do you see a problem here? Of the 220, 202 of those involved a single death. Hardly a school rampage killing.
If you pull out all the crap numbers, and focus on what should *truly* be considered school shootings (current students and multiple victims) and it cuts the number to 19 offenders, 12 shootings. If you look at the US Secret Service's National Threat Assessment Center, they identified 37 targeted school shootings, with 41 attackers between 1974 and 2000. Including incidents where only one victim was targeted. "Tageted shootings" meaning the assailants were current or recent students, and they chose the school "for a particular purpose, and not simply as a site of opportunity." Thereby excluding shootings related to drugs, gangs, or interpersonal disputes that had nothing to do with school.
All that info can be found in Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings (google preview here: https://books.google.com/books?id=c0rx6G1...RQ4kgdsnXE-tm48 )
Is homicide a problem? Yes, a large problem. Are these "School shootings" the main reason? Not on your life, less than 1% of homicides and suicides of school aged children (5-18 years old) were school associated, even by the twisted logic that the CDC used to define "school related". It comes down to education. Both by the government (schools) and by the parents. Education and respect are what hold communities together, there is a reason violent deaths of urban students is double that of rural. And don't tell me it's because of the guns, farm kids have far more access, and practice with guns than any city kid will ever have, but they have the knowledge respect that goes along with it.#homeofpoi -- irc.newnet.net Come talk to us we're bored
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