THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: chronovore on February 03, 2014, 06:22:14 PM
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/03/us-russia-shooting-school-idUSBREA120C920140203
(Reuters) - A teenager described as a model student shot a teacher and a police officer dead and took more than 20 of his schoolmates hostage in a Moscow classroom on Monday, days before Russia hosts the Winter Olympics under tight security.
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Irina Yarovaya, a pro-Kremlin lawmaker who heads the security committee in the State Duma, put some blame on "propaganda of aggression", such as violent computer games, but also said access to guns should be tightened.
She said the punishment for legal gun owners whose negligence enabled others to get their hands on weapons was "infinitesimal". The maximum sentence for the offence is six months.
Duma international affairs committee head Alexei Pushkov suggested Russia had embraced U.S. culture with deadly effect.
"Moscow school shooting: American movies and domestic serials, full of violence, are producing results - now it is like the USA here," he tweeted. "Is this what we wanted?
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:ussrcry
One high-strung, previously exemplary student goes batshit with his father's unsecured guns, and suddenly it's the USA media's fault. Holy fucking fuckity fuck.
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Yes, Russian culture was so peaceful and non-violent before the dastardly influence of American media.
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Putin told a Kremlin advisory council on the arts and culture in Pskov that "the new generation ... needs to be raised with good artistic taste and the ability to understand and value the theatrical, dramatic and musical arts".
"And if this was done as it should be in our country, maybe there would not be tragedies like the tragedy in Moscow today."
:ussrcry
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If they had left Soyuzmultfilm alone, none of this would have happened.
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In mother Russia, American movies rule you.