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Title: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on December 08, 2011, 02:34:12 PM: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/12/virginia-tech-reports-shots-fired-on-campus/1?loc=interstitialskip

ugh
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: brob on December 08, 2011, 02:43:57 PM: "Virginia Tech says the police officer was shot and killed after pulling someone over in what was a routine traffic stop the schools Coliseum Parking Lot. Witnesses tell police that the shooter ran toward a parking lot on campus, the Associated Press reports.

A second person was found dead in that parking lot, the AP says."

very sad. hopefully there aren't any more casualties.
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: Ganhyun on December 08, 2011, 04:23:38 PM: What's with all the shootings there? Seriously? Anyways, this sucks.
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: chronovore on December 09, 2011, 01:42:59 AM: "I vote for a fully armed campus."

The following week, "What do you mean, C-MINUS? I don't think so... Do you feel lucky, punk?"
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 09, 2011, 01:44:38 AM: an armed college campus is a polite college campus!
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: drew on December 09, 2011, 04:41:41 AM: Quote from: chronovore on December 09, 2011, 01:42:59 AM
The following week, "What do you mean, C-MINUS? I don't think so... Do you feel lucky, punk?"

stuff like this never happens in areas where concealed carry is made legal where it wasn't before

"but every fender bender will turn into a shootout!"
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: T234 on December 09, 2011, 04:46:16 AM: Yeah, I find that in environments where EVERYBODY IS ARMED AND EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS, there are usually less hostilities and less assholishness in general.
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: drew on December 09, 2011, 04:49:32 AM: btw everyone wouldn't be armed, the minimum age for owning a handgun is 21
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: Boogie on December 09, 2011, 04:55:27 PM: Quote from: Borys on December 09, 2011, 06:02:26 AM
It's not a "shooting" like the last V-Tech one or the Breivik one just a normal cop slaughter. Misleading thread title.

Find a new adjective, Boris. Now.
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: demi on December 09, 2011, 04:57:40 PM: :lol Borys
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 09, 2011, 04:59:19 PM: :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: Boogie on December 09, 2011, 08:03:51 PM: Quote from: drew on December 09, 2011, 04:41:41 AM

stuff like this never happens in areas where concealed carry is made legal where it wasn't before

"but every fender bender will turn into a shootout!"

Quote from: T234 on December 09, 2011, 04:46:16 AM
Yeah, I find that in environments where EVERYBODY IS ARMED AND EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS, there are usually less hostilities and less assholishness in general.

You two, show your work. Anything more than waving your hands dismissively and pulling anecdotes from your asses.
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: Boogie on December 09, 2011, 08:12:51 PM: As for Borys, it takes a special kind of fucked in the head to dismiss the newsworthiness or tragedy of a violent death based on how often that particular violent death occurs.

Lots of cops are killed in the line of duty? Really, Borys, you don't say? I had no idea that being a police officer was a dangerous fucking job. Thank you for enlightening me.

Hell, there are a lot of homicides in the United States from guns. 10,000 a year, in fact. Why, using your statistical metric, that's more than one person getting shot to death every hour.

By your fucked up value system, that practically means that no murders are worthy of a news article, or any sombre reflection. Nope, they're so normal that we should gloss over them without a second thought.

But, okay, let's run with the school shootings angle.

Fatalities through school shootings by school year:
99-00: 33
00-01: 31
01-02: 17
02-03: 16
03-04: 49
04-05: 39
05-06: 27
06-07: 32
07-08: 16
08-09: 13
09-10: 11

Now, notwithstanding the welcome drop-off in the last three years, that may not be quite as run-of-the-mill as police officer deaths, but those are still some pretty high numbers for people killed in school shootings. Pretty normal in America, really. I mean, in 2003-2004, that's someone killed in a school shooting every 7 days. Pretty normal occurrence. Not the sort of thing that is thread-worthy, surely.

If you're a cynical asshole, that is.

To summarize, if your reaction to a police officer being murdered in the line of duty for conducting a traffic stop is:

"oh, a school shooting, how tragic! *clicks link* wait, it was just a police officer killed? ..... *yawn*"

My response is:

"Go fuck your goat, Borys"
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: Boogie on December 09, 2011, 08:40:05 PM: Quote from: Count Drugula The Satanic on December 09, 2011, 08:38:07 PM
Jokes on you boogie, Borys doesn't have a goat.

No?

I have been misinformed.

What farm animals do they fuck in Poland, then?
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: brob on December 09, 2011, 08:43:14 PM: polish women.
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 09, 2011, 08:47:06 PM: :lol
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 09, 2011, 08:53:33 PM: :lol
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: chronovore on December 09, 2011, 10:55:33 PM: :lol

Oh, fffuuuuuck...
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: Bacchus7 on December 09, 2011, 10:58:51 PM: Pretty high smiley face-to-post ratio in this thread. Let's keep it up (http://www.thebore.com/forum/Smileys/default/laugh.gif)
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: T234 on December 10, 2011, 12:15:19 AM: Quote from: Boogie on December 09, 2011, 08:03:51 PM
Quote from: drew on December 09, 2011, 04:41:41 AM

stuff like this never happens in areas where concealed carry is made legal where it wasn't before

"but every fender bender will turn into a shootout!"

Quote from: T234 on December 09, 2011, 04:46:16 AM
Yeah, I find that in environments where EVERYBODY IS ARMED AND EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS, there are usually less hostilities and less assholishness in general.

You two, show your work. Anything more than waving your hands dismissively and pulling anecdotes from your asses.

To be fair, the people I hang out with are not your ordinary people. When I go out into the general public, it's like nobody has any respect for anybody and is constantly trying to fuck over and irritate one another. Whereas when you know you'll end up in a ditch (and nothing is gonna happen to whoever did it) for such things, it tends to keep people in line. Knowing how willing somebody is to use their gun is a pretty big deterrent.

This theory goes out the window at nip-joints, though. I dunno if they have such places in Canada-land.

That being said, now that I think about it, hormonal teenagers and early twenty-somethings should probably not carry firearms, especially in places where there are so many people.
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: Boogie on December 10, 2011, 12:23:07 AM: Quote from: T234 on December 10, 2011, 12:15:19 AM

To be fair, the people I hang out with are not your ordinary people.

No fucking shit.
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: brob on December 10, 2011, 12:25:23 AM: enhance your calm boogie. no use staying mad at the internet.
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: T234 on December 10, 2011, 12:33:01 AM: To clarify, I don't really agree with drew. Most people shouldn't carry firearms. Especially concealed ones.

Brobzoid, Boogie is currently on edge because of GSP.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
He's gonna beat whoever wins the "interim" fight like a drum. Calm down boogie.
[close]
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 10, 2011, 12:39:57 AM: boogie is writing a long post as i type

edit: dammit!
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: Boogie on December 10, 2011, 12:41:52 AM: Quote from: T234 on December 10, 2011, 12:33:01 AM

Brobzoid, Boogie is currently on edge because of GSP.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
He's gonna beat whoever wins the "interim" fight like a drum. Calm down boogie.
[close]

This is probably truer than I would like to admit..... :lol
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: T234 on December 10, 2011, 12:48:15 AM: WARRR MACHIDAAAAAAAAAAAA
Title: Re: Another V Tech Shooting
Post by: Boogie on December 10, 2011, 01:49:10 AM: Quote from: Borys on December 10, 2011, 01:44:08 AM
I always thought you weren't a typical thick-headed, uncouth lout American cop, Boogie. Guess I was wrong. You're a Canadian one.

Uncouth means:

"awkward, clumsy, or unmannerly"

Lout means:

"an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor"

In conclusion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk