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Very sad and disturbing.
However, I wholeheartedly disagree that how media covers shootings has an impact. If watching TV, or ready availibility of guns for that matter, causes you to disregard your moral compass and start blowing people away there's something else fundamentally wrong with you.
Mornin' Ben. :2wave: Well if that was the case. Then they would go off anywhere. Now its panning out to be more of a point to do something at school. Then they get the attemtion.
.....now Team Obama and the Anti Gun Nuts will make use of this tragedy.
Aren't you using this tragedy in an effort to rile up the "anti gun nuts" (yet again) and to point fingers at Obama for something he has absolutely no control over?
perhaps you missed this thread I started....
http://www.debatepolitics.com/polls/180923-should-media-stop-reporting-teenage-shootings.html
Another shotgun shooting? Maybe Joe Biden feels bad about telling everyone to buy a shotgun now.
Another shotgun shooting? Maybe Joe Biden feels bad about telling everyone to buy a shotgun now.
If not for Joe Biden, we'd never have gun violence. Thanks Biden.
1) They need to not release his name. EVER!
2) This kid will have a history, and he likely (65% chance) will have revealed this motive online somewhere.
This stuff keeps happening. Why? We don't know. This tragedy, like many others, demonstrates a supreme lack of awareness in our society. A lack of psychological warning signs. This has nothing to do with guns. I'm sure the media will misrepresent facts and such as usual. Reporting what is best for their ratings, but maybe we can as rational adults realize that the problem lies at home. In our parenting.
I have been in schools. And I am sitting behind the curve trying to help a school write a policy to deal with this stuff. It is a nightmare and now every school is in fear of if. And the problem is that the school is one of the greatest resource in stopping it. Pay attention to the kids. Their needs.
This isn't a quick fix. Our culture is causing this. A supreme disconnect. And it is sad.
1) They need to not release his name. EVER!
2) This kid will have a history, and he likely (65% chance) will have revealed this motive online somewhere.
This stuff keeps happening. Why? We don't know. This tragedy, like many others, demonstrates a supreme lack of awareness in our society. A lack of psychological warning signs. This has nothing to do with guns. I'm sure the media will misrepresent facts and such as usual. Reporting what is best for their ratings, but maybe we can as rational adults realize that the problem lies at home. In our parenting.
I have been in schools. And I am sitting behind the curve trying to help a school write a policy to deal with this stuff. It is a nightmare and now every school is in fear of if. And the problem is that the school is one of the greatest resource in stopping it. Pay attention to the kids. Their needs.
This isn't a quick fix. Our culture is causing this. A supreme disconnect. And it is sad.
This is quite unfortunate. But now that the media Immortalizes these moments every kid out there now knows that when they want to go off. Do so at school. Shame.....now Team Obama and the Anti Gun Nuts will make use of this tragedy. What is your take upon the matter?
I'm sorry that you feel REALITY gets in the way of your narrative but whining that the news is reporting the NEWS is pretty damn stupid. Seriously what the **** is your argument? That people shouldn't report the news because you don't like hearing about it?
I'm sorry that you feel REALITY gets in the way of your narrative but whining that the news is reporting the NEWS is pretty damn stupid. Seriously what the **** is your argument? That people shouldn't report the news because you don't like hearing about it?
1) They need to not release his name. EVER!
2) This kid will have a history, and he likely (65% chance) will have revealed this motive online somewhere.
This stuff keeps happening. Why? We don't know. This tragedy, like many others, demonstrates a supreme lack of awareness in our society. A lack of psychological warning signs. This has nothing to do with guns. I'm sure the media will misrepresent facts and such as usual. Reporting what is best for their ratings, but maybe we can as rational adults realize that the problem lies at home. In our parenting.
I have been in schools. And I am sitting behind the curve trying to help a school write a policy to deal with this stuff. It is a nightmare and now every school is in fear of if. And the problem is that the school is one of the greatest resource in stopping it. Pay attention to the kids. Their needs.This isn't a quick fix. Our culture is causing this. A supreme disconnect. And it is sad.
Heya Stonewall......I doubt he will be tried as an adult. I think here it was clear he went after who were the one who was bullying him. As he shot that kid in the face twice. I am surprised he lived with 2 shots to the head from a shotgun.
You are so right. A kid just doesn't go off the deep end overnight. It will build up and there will be cries for help, just pay attention. If a student at school is bothering another student so constantly to the point they snap, how does that go undetected?
Mornin' AW.Exactly.....Ttwtt brought up before about why doesn't the schools and staff have signs up about No Bullying. No Disrupting class.
It's okay to make laws and put up gun signs. Yet they don't want to put up signs that point out much of the problems for young people and kids.
Morning MMC.
From what I understand, there has been quite an increase in bringing an anti-bullying message to schools. Of course, I don't know about the particular school where this happened.
In my opinion, the greater problem is with the social media and other means in which a person can be bullied. Back in the day, a bully had to actually get in anothers face, hoping to get others to join in.
Sadly today, it seems kids are so removed from reality they think tweets, or facebook posts, have depth and real consequence, and getting a bunch of anonymous people to join in bullying seems rather simple.
Throw in violent video games, and the mixture appears to be quite volitile.
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