14 year old shoots himself in the head during school

[ablac]

To all those who want to say that he is doing a good thing taking himslef out of the gene pool or think this is a time for jokes: you are the ones who deserve to live on this world the least. If you wont behave like a human being then you shouldnt live. If you expect people to cry at your funeral then show some damn respect for the lives of others.

 

[OniaPL]

See, this is what happens when you let kids play Persona 3.

if you let them play persona 4 be "prebeared" for a rash of ripped up tarot cards and head injuries caused by attempting to enter the TV head first.

You should be shot in the face for making one of those horrible bear puns.

 

[Jake0fTrades]

At least he had the decency to off himself where he'd be found and cleaned up quickly. I hate it when people kill themselves in their own homes and stink up the place for a few months. It's just so goddamn inconsiderate.

Spoiler

D'you guys think I have a shot at being a world class comedian with my clever, witty, smart, intelligent comedy?

A change of topic would do you well.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

For fuck sake i understand sarcasm. My point is that no one has yet blamed videogames. I know this is a gamin site but that doesnt mean everything needs to link back to video games no matter what. Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Anyone could of said what he said. point is no one did because no one is stupid enough to link this to videogames. This joke would at least be reasonable if someone had tried to link this to videogames. But no one has. This is simply lashing out at the media for something they havent done. he is the prick in a group who needs to leed the conversation to the one point he is interested in. Everyone knows that guy. A child has shot himslef and the best he can do is make a stab at the media's hysteria over videogames because thats all he cares about. Not the kid but the possible shit flinging aftermath. Thats vile. Theres no need to be so patronising. Most people are capable of having a mature conversation. Leave speaking down to someone in your teenage years and stop behaving like an immature prick. If you think this is genious then you really dont encounter much thinking in day to day do you? See its funny cause i inferred you were dum (if you really are stupid this is a joke, i dont know you or anything about you i just think your making a ridiculous point and im imitating you to demonstrate how low brow sarcasm is.)

Sarcasm: The lowest form of wit... I beleive that was a joke created years ago born from sarcastic tones itself... Alson with 'sarcasm is the most inteligent form of wit'. It follows the same basic rules of sarcasm.

Also, dumb has a 'b' at the end.

Again, with the kid thing... who said that the originator of the joke doesn't care about the kid? And where in any of the posts that you have made have you made ay attempt at mature conversation? One of them just repeats the word c**t in a nursery rhyme... mature my arse...

Knowing my own age, and knowing I am far from my teenage years, and that I am more than likely older than you myself means that your response just makes me laugh! I am an Officer in the Armed Forces, and thinking is my forte, thank you. I am also British, and as such , being British, and in the Forces this makes my sense of humour very dark, and heavy laden with sarcasm... I, along with a lot of other peple within the forum community on this site enjoy the humour that is in question above. It is people like you, who dont enjoy it, and then turn whiney, and sissy and accuse everyone of having fun immature, who are not welcome here.

Welcome to the internet. It is full of humour you will not aprove of... doesn't stop it being humour, or fun for those involved... Let me know when you fully understand this and are ready to come back and stop being a little *****...

Now run along now, back to your little pit of despair, where you will inevitably assemble another desperate pathetic attempt of defending what smidgen of honour, or pride you have left, in another, probably lengthy, but just as pitiful post. Undobtedly it will attempt to pick apart what I am saying in this post by poorly immitating me, using dated cliches and generalising yourself to be like that of everyone else on this site... even though you appear to not realise that people on this gaming website, like games, and will inevitably mention games in any topic when they are in an environment with other gamers...

 

[SD-Fiend]

Must've been a Persona 3 fan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpZpQid-kN8
that or seppukumon...

 

[Belaam]

33,000 suicides a year in the U.S. And we only have the 41st highest suicide rate.

Sad, but sadly not remarkable. And quite frankly, a kid in the hospital is far preferable to multiple students in the morgue.

Rural town, kid's name is Hunter - draw your own conclusion as to whether or not parents left guns accessible in the house. Certainly not that uncommon. I live in a rural town and quite a few of the middle schoolers go hunting with parents, have a lot of experience with firearms, etc. Heck, I know 12 year old girls who go deer hunting.

I would certainly look into home life and mental issues, but at the number of suicides annually, this is more a fact of modern life than anything that is going to be altered with increased mental health screening, stricter gun control, stronger child protective services, effective anti-bullying program, etc. Anything massive enough to cause a shift in those things would never get passed politically and any lip service idea wouldn't actually have weight to it (see that anti-bulling law in Michigan that gives religious exemptions if you want to bully someone your religion disapproves of).

 

[SD-Fiend]

See, this is what happens when you let kids play Persona 3.

if you let them play persona 4 be "prebeared" for a rash of ripped up tarot cards and head injuries caused by attempting to enter the TV head first.

You should be shot in the face for making one of those horrible bear puns.

alright'y then! Lycoan! (my own persona)BANG! * absolutely nothing happens because I haven't drawn him yet*

 

[theultimateend]

A New Hampshire elementary school was placed under lockdown Friday after a 14-year-old student shot himself in the face in the cafeteria with about 70 students present, NBC station WPTZ reported.

Cheshire County Attorney Peter Heed said Friday the gunshot was self-inflicted. The shooting happened around 11 a.m. at Walpole Elementary School in Walpole. The boy was hospitalized, but his name and condition were not released. No one else was hurt, according to WPTZ.

"Our hearts go out to the family of this young man and our thoughts go out to all of the students that were in the school at this time," Heed said at a news conference. He did not say what kind of gun the student used or where he might have obtained it. He also did not offer any information on why the student shot himself.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/10/10374117-report-boy-shoots-himself-in-front-of-70-students

Well, this is starting to become a fairly common occurrence. Wonder where he got the gun from...

inb4 arguments on gun regulation.

Anywho, let's all make wild guesses as to why he did it.

Edit: Because some people are making assumptions about this kid because it was in an elementary school, the kid in question is an eight grader. Just sayian.

When you are dealing with demographics in the millions, how many people have to do something before it is common?

I'm thinking like...thousands. How many have done it? 1-5-10? 20? 200,000?

Wow, op must be psychic because look at all the gun control people marching in...

Education > Gun Control.

Most nations with good gun records have them because they also have a society that isn't praised for being stupid. The ritualized treatment of guns here alongside this whole anti-education nonsense is a bad combo.

 

[SD-Fiend]

To all those who want to say that he is doing a good thing taking himslef out of the gene pool or think this is a time for jokes: you are the ones who deserve to live on this world the least. If you wont behave like a human being then you shouldnt live. If you expect people to cry at your funeral then show some damn respect for the lives of others.

this is human nature as well kid.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Any time a thread...SNIP

Well said...

It's true. I have had 2 friends commit suicide in my lifetime. One of them in front of a train I happened to be on. (I didn't see it, or know until a few days later. All I knew was the train stopped, and the police came, but we didn't know why.) It's horrific, and you are right, nobody apart from the people who knew them, or the people involved ask 'why?'.

On the other hand, being in the military has shown me the many different ways in which people deal with information like that. Some people after dealing with loss of people they even knew with crack jokes. It sounds terrible, but it is the only way some people can deal with that kind of news when faced with news like that.
You also find that people, such as myself, become desensitised a great deal to this kind of event, and will often sound harsh, or inhumane compared to others who still find it shocking. This doesn't mean they are, it just means they are talking with a different tone, sometimes different to how they actually feel.

Then you get the bastards who actually are just being malicious. They just need to seriously have words with themselves... Or they will actually find out the seriousness of the event, when it actually happens close to them...

 

[theultimateend]

Any time a thread...SNIP

Well said...

It's true. I have had 2 friends commit suicide in my lifetime. One of them in front of a train I happened to be on. (I didn't see it, or know until a few days later. All I knew was the train stopped, and the police came, but we didn't know why.) It's horrific, and you are right, nobody apart from the people who knew them, or the people involved ask 'why?'.

On the other hand, being in the military has shown me the many different ways in which people deal with information like that. Some people after dealing with loss of people they even knew with crack jokes. It sounds terrible, but it is the only way some people can deal with that kind of news when faced with news like that.
You also find that people, such as myself, become desensitised a great deal to this kind of event, and will often sound harsh, or inhumane compared to others who still find it shocking. This doesn't mean they are, it just means they are talking with a different tone, sometimes different to how they actually feel.

Then you get the bastards who actually are just being malicious. They just need to seriously have words with themselves... Or they will actually find out the seriousness of the event, when it actually happens close to them...

If you took the death of every person heavy you'd probably have died decades ago. "But I'm only 20" you might be saying, I don't know how old you are, but even then I'd stick with the "decades ago" line.

I personally make jokes because there isn't much more that can be done. The person is already dead and it is best to try and prevent the next one while also not being carried under by this one.

Look at 9/11, people dwelled on it and look how that has turned out. So many more dead, so many facets of our life we once took for granted altered and retarded.

 

[Major_Tom]

That's not right! He should have shot himself in the leg, but only after a warning shot in the ceiling. What? It makes as much sense as it does in those other threads.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Shot himself in the face, but was hospitalized? I bet it was a pellet gun. Don't really care why he did it myself, doesn't change my opinions on gun control or bullying.

If it was a pellet gun, I doubt he would have been hospitalized. Guns aren't like in games, there's no 100% fatal shot. The human body is a very complicated system, and a gun works by firing a very small chunk of metal through it at a very high speed. It will wreck your shit no matter what, but whether it will cause enough damage to kill you or not depends on a huge number of factors, and it's very rarely instant.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

SNIP

Its true. A lot of people end up leaving because it slowly takes an emotional toll on them. Personally I haven't got that way yet, but I do have down days, usually if the pace drops for a while (like on leave and such) where things catch up. My own Uncles death only caught up with me 3-4 months after the funeral, which I was at! At the time I felt awful, because I didn't feel as bad as everyone else looked... but it was just a coping mechanism... mine kicked in later. I looked into it, and the same thing had happened to one of my other cousins (a 3rd family, it was his uncle too). Me and him were talking at the funeral, but not of the event at all. We just caught up on each other. We stood to the side watching everyone else looking sad, feeling a bit bad that we didn't know what to say/do. I spoke to him months later, after I had had an awful day when the realisatio had hit me, and the same thing had happened to him... a few months after the funeral, he also had a day where he felt really bad!
I guess it is just what happens to some people!

It sounds really bad, but its just what we have to do to survive! What you said is a perfect example. You make jokes, not at the situation, but at other things around the situation. Its not bad, it will just appear awful to those who do feel bad at the situation!

 

[NiPah]

So instead of dealing with his problems he tries to kill himself? Sounds like a productive member of society, wait no I'm lying. I'm going to go reload the gun for this waste of DNA.

Isn't much better then what you're doing, instead of dealing with the issue of suicide in individuals you're labeling them as non-productive members of society that are wastes of DNA.

Suicidality is treatable, and the risk of suicidality can be measured through psychological tests, wouldn't it be better to attempt to fix the problem instead ignoring it?

 

[BanicRhys]

I'm guessing his thought process was "I'm killing myself and it's all of your faults, fuck you."

 

[teebeeohh]

incoming: people suing his parents/the school/whatever left and right because their kids were in the cafeteria

 

[Ix Rebound]

At least he had the decency to off himself where he'd be found and cleaned up quickly. I hate it when people kill themselves in their own homes and stink up the place for a few months. It's just so goddamn inconsiderate.

Spoiler

D'you guys think I have a shot at being a world class comedian with my clever, witty, smart, intelligent comedy?

not when you talk about a kid shooting himself, no