[QUOTE=Fusion_power;488364]What bothers me is the sheer number of idiots who get a cactus needle in their butt[/QUOTE]
You guys are wonderful, I have to remember this expression! Sorry to make a joke in a not quite a suitable moment... This reminds me of a doctor in our country who used to give to everybody who came for a consultation some treatment for intestinal worms... If someone stepped in his clinic room complaining about some pain, headache, stomach ache, belly pain, whatever, then the patient got the same preaching: "you have [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascariasis"]ascariasis[/URL], take this medicine", and he handled a bottle of some liquid... Nobody knew if the medicine was indeed for lumbricoides or it was the right medicine the patient needed for his disease, or just placebo, but the fact stays... "you have lumbricoides, take this!". Many say that the treatments always work, and that the bottles or pills were different from a patient to another, and the doctor was only talking like that, but he in fact was administering the right treatment, but this nobody knows for sure... Once, a guy with a broken arm walked in... "Oh, you have ascariasis!" said the doctor. The guy was in pain and he didn't take the joke well "Are you crazy? I climbed the tree and fell down and broke my arm, I have no worms"... "Well...", replied the doctor "what do you think was itching you in the ass to climb the tree?"...

Guns don't kill students, video games do...
 

Just thought I'd mention Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's testimony at the Senate Appropriations Committee on June 5. She was put in charge of [i]Il Duce[/i]'s "school safety commission" formed after the Parkland school shootings. Asked by Sen. Patrick Leahy whether the commission would study how school safety is affected by guns and gun violence, she said,
[quote]That is not part of the commission’s charge, per se.[/quote]

It seems she's more interested in arming teachers, and blaming violent video games.

After her testimony, the Department issued a "clarification." Part of the commission's charge [i]is[/i] to look at age restrictions for certain firearms purchases...

Mental Illness Serves as Easy Scapegoat in Mass Murder Accounts
 

-Olivia Riggio
[URL]https://fair.org/home/mental-illness-serves-as-easy-scapegoat-in-mass-murder-accounts/[/URL]
Focusing on the mental health of domestic terrorists lets the media cover up the role it plays in encouraging more of the same.
[QUOTE]The media’s fixations with Pagourtzis’ trenchcoat and withdrawn personality come from common fallacies about the Columbine High School massacre of 1999.

The perpetrators of that crime were [URL="http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/20/columbine.myths/"]falsely reported[/URL] to be part of the “Trenchcoat Mafia,” a clique of gamers and outcasts at the school who were not affiliated with the shooters. Social awkwardness and duster coats have been associated with mass shootings ever since.

What the Columbine shooters, Pagourtzis and other mass killers most importantly have in common, though, is a desire for notoriety. According to an affidavit ([B]AP,[/B] [URL="https://www.apnews.com/2aa445e284244dee8616c12a7bb54d81"]5/19/18[/URL]), Pagourtzis told investigators he spared the lives of students he liked so they could “tell his story.”
[/QUOTE]June 14, 2016
[U]When Media Learned Killer’s Ethnicity, Then They Knew to Call It ‘Terrorism[/U]’
-Eoin Higgins
[URL]https://fair.org/home/when-media-learned-killers-ethnicity-then-they-knew-to-call-it-terrorism/[/URL]
Ain't it funny how white guys don't commit terrorism. They are just deranged losers. (See above story.)
[QUOTE]In the early hours of June 12, as reports poured in about a shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, news outlets were reluctant to characterize the incident beyond calling it an act of violence.

With little information beyond “a shooting has left a number of people of dead in a nightclub,” the [B]Twitter[/B] accounts of major media outlets used the contextually neutral language of “shooting” to describe the situation:
[/QUOTE][QUOTE]Once the shooter was identified as Omar Mateen, a US citizen of Afghan descent, the narrative changed. After this South Asian ethnicity was revealed, news media began calling the attack an act of terror. At 9:01 AM, [B]CBS News[/B] [URL="https://twitter.com/CBSNLive/status/741978609901002752"]tweeted[/URL]: “JUST IN: Orlando nightclub shooter ID’d as Omar S. Mateen, law enforcement sources tell[URL="https://twitter.com/CBSNews"] @[B]CBSNews[/B][/URL].” Just ten minutes later, the way [B]CBS[/B] was discussing the crime had [URL="https://twitter.com/CBSNLive/status/741978609901002752"]changed[/URL]: “Authorities ‘leaning towards [B]Islamic terrorism[/B]’ as motive,[URL="https://twitter.com/CBSNews"] @[B]CBSNews[/B][/URL]‘ Pat Milton reports:”[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]This manipulation of language by news media has shown quite clearly that [U] the term “terrorism” refers not to the acts themselves, but rather to the ethnicity and specifically defined ideology of the perpetrators of the attacks.[/U][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=kladner;491742]-Olivia Riggio
[URL]https://fair.org/home/mental-illness-serves-as-easy-scapegoat-in-mass-murder-accounts/[/URL]
Focusing on the mental health of domestic terrorists lets the media cover up the role it plays in encouraging more of the same.
June 14, 2016
[U]When Media Learned Killer’s Ethnicity, Then They Knew to Call It ‘Terrorism[/U]’
-Eoin Higgins
[URL]https://fair.org/home/when-media-learned-killers-ethnicity-then-they-knew-to-call-it-terrorism/[/URL]
Ain't it funny how white guys don't commit terrorism. They are just deranged losers. (See above story.)[/QUOTE]
The Columbine chuckleheads didn't hold a candle to [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Kehoe]Andrew_Kehoe[/url], who perpetrated the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster]Bath School disaster[/url]. Of course, when he did his thing in 1927, the term "terrorism" hadn't been invented yet. But talk about a sore loser...

And then there's [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik]Anders Behring Breivik[/url], who killed 75 and injured 241 on July 22, 2011. He's contemporary, and as white as they get. [quote]At the same time, Breivik said both during his trial and in his manifesto to have been inspired by jihadist groups such as al-Qaeda, and stated his willingness to work with groups like al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab and Iran in order to conduct attacks with weapons of mass destruction against Western targets.[/quote]

[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;491796]The Columbine chuckleheads didn't hold a candle to [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Kehoe"]Andrew_Kehoe[/URL], who perpetrated the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster"]Bath School disaster[/URL]. Of course, when he did his thing in 1927, the term "terrorism" hadn't been invented yet. But talk about a sore loser...

And then there's [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik"]Anders Behring Breivik[/URL], who killed 75 and injured 241 on July 22, 2011. He's contemporary, and as white as they get.[/QUOTE]
The Bath school board member was an exception at age 57.

Mass killers tend to be male, under 30, and losers. Race is less selective. The notoriety it produces seems to appeal to them. I've been saying for years, their names and biographies should be completely suppressed. Just identify them as murderous asshole loser #n, mal#n for short, where the numerical value n is a sequence number.

While they are quite disturbed by normal measures, they are not completely irrational. They tend to pick places that offer little chance of effective resistance. For example, Holmes bypassed closer theaters to do his shooting at an Aurora Colorado theater that required even off-duty police to be unarmed. Breivik did most of his killing on an island used for a camp for unarmed youth, and his first order of business was shooting the security guard there. The Fort Hood shooting by Nidal Hassan was in an area he, as a member of the military, knew was an established on-base gun-free zone. As I recall, a female civilian police officer was the first other armed person on scene.

[QUOTE=kriesel;492917]I've been saying for years, their names and biographies should be completely suppressed. Just identify them as murderous asshole loser #n, mal#n for short, where the numerical value n is a sequence number.[/QUOTE]But that wouldn't attract the click-bait news articles. So the mainstream [strike]propaganda[/strike] "news" machine wouldn't go for it.

[QUOTE=kriesel;492917]Just identify them as murderous asshole loser #n[/QUOTE]
I suspect part of the problem is their being insulted in this fashion long before they commit murder.

[URL="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45315970"]No further comment[/URL]

[QUOTE=xilman;494727][URL="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45315970"]No further comment[/URL][/QUOTE]

Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

I have never understood the love of guns by the "Great" United States of America.

Trump recently said that people "away" like to use knives to kill because "it hurts more".

I would argue that while knives can be deadly and are readily available, they are by definition "close quarters combat". No one who is not really skilled can kill with a knife from a distance.

Even an amateur can kill many people from a distance with a firearm.

[QUOTE=xilman;494727][URL="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45315970"]No further comment[/URL][/QUOTE]
Another mentally disturbed person who is referred by some media as 'Gaming mogul', a 'youtuber' etc, [URL="https://people.com/crime/youtuber-mcskillet-car-crash-wrong-way-highway/"]killed two innocent people in an apparent vehicular suicide[/URL] a couple days ago, yards away from my usual evening commute.
No further comment either on the effect of gaming culture on what's happening IRL.

[SPOILER]I was about to take that same 805 N off exit that he took (only in the wrong direction), while I was lucky to be 10-15 minutes behind, so it only wrecked my commute. I could have been in the position of the victim's car.[/SPOILER]

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