14 Children and Teacher Killed in Texas Elementary School Shooting

[unsunghero]

Originally Posted by Horza [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Your society only discriminates against white men shirt isn't helping with the denials of being a racial supremacist.

Oh no we all get discriminated against all the time by people’s biases, put that on my shirt

[Jibartik]

ill bet a million dollars horza doesnt like mayonnaise.

[unsunghero]

Or if I could pick what I would wear on my shirt, if I was the only white dude living in a low income all black neighborhood, I would have a shirt that says BLM

But irregardless, I look like a cop. So I don’t think that shirt would keep me alive on its own. But maybe

Anyway, speaking of biases

[Jibartik]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A woman in West Virginia fatally shot a man who began firing an AR-15-style rifle into a crowd of people that had gathered for a party, authorities said.

[unsunghero]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A woman in West Virginia fatally shot a man who began firing an AR-15-style rifle into a crowd of people that had gathered for a party, authorities said.

There’s a vid floating around the internet of a guy grabbing a little girl and dragging her towards his car. He gets shot in the chest by some bystander lady with a gun. Apparently he had a criminal history and was attempting to abduct her, and she wouldn’t have survived it

It’s still something I regretted seeing years ago, because I believe the dude did die and I don’t like seeing that kinda shit the older I get

[Mblake1981]

Imagine if the internet, message boards and social media existed in 1980s America like it does today, with people freaking out about events happening around the vast country. You once had to turn on the news, with them doing some end-of-quarter special series detailing this. This place is too large for a single person to get bombarded like that, and you guys talk about mental health.

-imagine 1980s aussies, red labor chinese and young Beto O'Rourke would all be brow-beating mullet dudes online, who laugh while popping ice cold genuine draft..

[Skarne]

Haha irregardless

[MrSparkle001]

I'm thinking now that these mass shootings by young people have only been an issue since the birth of the internet. Before Columbine we really didn't hear about them. It was never even a concern. Schools would be open and unlocked and anyone could just walk right in and nobody cared.

Because nobody had a reason to care.

Then the internet gets going in the 90's and takes off in the 2000's and now these kids are growing up with it and it's warping their minds. The mentally ill kids are being further harmed by it and they lash out and shit like this happens. No "history" of mental illness doesn't mean there is no mental illness. The kid was a fucked up high school drop-out and I can bet there were warning signs everywhere and as usual nobody cared and let the kid slip through the cracks. Then the internet grabs hold of his malfunctioning mind and suddenly he wants to shoot up an elementary school.

And yes an 18 year old these days is still very much a kid. This isn't the 1940's.

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by unsunghero [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I always assume these are just faked by rascals. The internet is still pretty wild.

[robayon]

Originally Posted by MrSparkle001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm thinking now that these mass shootings by young people have only been an issue since the birth of the internet. Before Columbine we really didn't hear about them. It was never even a concern. Schools would be open and unlocked and anyone could just walk right in and nobody cared.

Because nobody had a reason to care.

Then the internet gets going in the 90's and takes off in the 2000's and now these kids are growing up with it and it's warping their minds. The mentally ill kids are being further harmed by it and they lash out and shit like this happens. No "history" of mental illness doesn't mean there is no mental illness. The kid was a fucked up high school drop-out and I can bet there were warning signs everywhere and as usual nobody cared and let the kid slip through the cracks. Then the internet grabs hold of his malfunctioning mind and suddenly he wants to shoot up an elementary school.

And yes an 18 year old these days is still very much a kid. This isn't the 1940's.

I agree with your larger point. I think the general effects of the information age have really just exaggerated and amplified the capacity for insane violence. Any of us can pick a completely insane idea and find a group of like minded invidiuals online if we know how to search. I can't even remember how young I was when I first saw people dying on rotten.com or something linked through SA.

But I also believe American culture is extremely violent in a lot of ways, and we normalize violence in ways most cultures don't have to because we have to keep our population complacent and consuming. Panem et circenses. I think if most people saw first hand the violence it takes to give us, say, $4 tshirts at Old Navy, or $3 jars of condiments made with palm oil, they'd start to ask questions about the ethics of all of this consumer culture we have built. And the powers that be can't have that, so some of the most brutal forms of labor get outsourced so that it's out of sight and out of mind.

However, school shootings absolutely happened before Columbine. Not that you were saying they didn't, it was just more localized and information wasn't as easy to access as it is now.

https://www.ranker.com/list/scary-sc.../natalie-hazen

I don't think we have yet realized the full scope of the door we opened when we allowed the public access to the internet. Not that there's any going back, really. I feel like humanity getting the internet might have been some aliens violating a prime directive. Ugh