Newtown Officials Vote to Raze Home of Sandy Hook Gunman
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As others have said. It's kinda pathetic, and smacks of trying to erase what happened rather then learn from it.
I don't buy the 'the school is to old to remodel' ether. Not when there was a couple schools just as old, if not older in my area remodeled and upgraded.
I don't buy the 'the school is to old to remodel' ether. Not when there was a couple schools just as old, if not older in my area remodeled and upgraded.
I guess I'm not seeing what's so "pathetic" about knocking down an uninhabited and undesirable house, nor rebuilding an elementary school in the wake of a massacre.
What people find pathetic about the whole thing is that rather than facing the real issues at hand, the people of Newtown are creating easily defeatable boogiemen out of nothing so that they can feel better about themselves.SnakeTrousers said:
Murder houses aren't undesirable, merely less so to some people. To others, they'd snatch them up in a heartbeat because they tend to be cheaper. Hell, the Amityville house still stands and is occupied, and six people were brutally murdered in it, AND there's been a bunch of movies made about the place. That house is iconic as shit (even without the quarter moon windows on the top floor), and the people of Amityville didn't destroy it and leave the plot barren.
Kurt Cobain's residence where he was found dead is still occupied, but the garage/greenhouse was torn down many years later because the owners were tired of gawkers coming by.
Can anyone honestly say that they can recognize the home of the Sandy Hook shooter, put it on the same level as other places of death?
The contents of the house were likewise incinerated on the grounds of 'they didn't want them to become morbid keepsakes', which is a large load of crap. Destroy the very clearly personal effects of the residents (such as pictures), fine, as long as no family members wish to lay claim to them, but everything else they could have donated to the Salvation Army or some such, so that people who could use such things can get them, and no one would know they belonged to a murderer and his victim.
Tearing down Sandy Hook is the least insane of their actions, but their reasoning is baffling. "Oh, it needed to be renovated anyway, but it turns out building a new school would be cheaper"
I question the legitimacy of that, but then again, I'm not a contractor or what have you, so what do I know? There's also people that say they're doing it for the children, but that's kinda crap as well. Unless they were older students and/or had a family member that had died, the kids aren't going to know or remember unless some adults keep telling them that their school was the scene of child murder. And with the way these people are acting, they damn well would have.
But, let's say that the shooting never happened. Would they have renovated the school? Tear it down because that's the cheaper option? Jesus Christ, no. Because that's how the school system is in the U.S. Repairs aren't done unless absolutely necessary, because of the lack of funds and because of how disruptive it would be to the students and faculty. And Sandy Hook wasn't that old of a school. When I tried looking it up previously, I couldn't get anything on it dating past twenty years, but another user has something saying that it was in its 50s. Either way, that isn't old for a school. And considering that I've been to several schools that are over 80 years old and only had minor repairs and updates done to them, it seems highly unlikely that the renovations for a much younger school would have been so extensive to the point of needing a whole new building.
Hell, other schools where shootings have happened haven't even done this. Columbine only tore down the library where most of the shootings had happened, and turned the site into a memorial (rebuilding the library elsewhere). Virginia Tech (which was where the deadliest massacre by a sing person in the U.S. happened, and stands as one of the deadliest in the world) as far as I can tell, didn't tear down a single thing after the shootings.
And let's not forget the video game razings they did.
The money they're using to do these things was donated to aide the victims, and a lot of it doesn't really appear to be put to that use. They're not going out to fix matters, they're just trying to make themselves feel good with meaningless displays of conquering a dead man.
I think you people are confusing building code for resident/commercial and building code for government buildings. Residential and commercial is incredibly lax in comparison to the building code for government buildings (ill be honest, to the point of being anal)Lunar Templar said: