So I just survived a school shooting...
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Nothing like this, but two guys I went to school with died.
One I didn't know died of cancer, and a friend died from something with his brains.
Pretty weird walking around and seeing random people cry about someone they don't even know.
One I didn't know died of cancer, and a friend died from something with his brains.
Pretty weird walking around and seeing random people cry about someone they don't even know.
What is the difference between that and my BAR in .30-06? Aside from the .30-06 being a much more powerful round that is. Nothing, well except one having present military connections. Not that the other was never used by the military because it was.Spygon said:
Automatic weapons are banned, semi-auto weapons are not. There issue is that there is no such thing as an Assault riffle. That's a class of guns made up so they could put anything that looks "military" into it. It's like anything that shoots the .50 BMG. Because the military uses that round for sniper applications it's all of the sudden become an evil round that only dangerous people want to use.
Hell half the weapons they stick in that category fire smaller rounds then that BAR I keep referencing.
Sorry miss type on my part what i meant was its easier to get hold of a handgun than a rifle .Also if thats true and you can legally get semi-auto weapons that is kinda weird.As i always supported the right to have arms in america.But the reasoning behind it was for protection or hunting.If you can acquire an assault rifle then if you cant kill an animal in 3 shots "burst-fire" then you should give up hunting animals and if you think you need a weapon like the ak-47 to defend your home you seem to be expecting a squad of armed soldiers to kick in your front doormanaman said:
Funny enough, last week, last Monday; most people took the day off school because of surfacing rumours (spread courtesy of Facebook) that a guy was going to threaten to shoot up the school. You know what's funny? I had a cold that day. That's why I didn't go. At 2pm, dad called from work and asked if I heard anything about a kid threatening a shoot up. My lucky day?
Cops arrested the guy before anything more could be said. Arrested him the Sunday night before, and it was just for making the probably-too-serious threat. Funny enough, he was 21, and this was a high school, so... it seems an odd target.
Either way, nary a bullet was shot, so I'm happy for that.
EDIT: I should point out that I went to a gun show on Sunday (not the Sunday buddy got caught), and there was an awesome crossbow for sale, for $175, and a guy had an amazing composite bow that he offered to sell us for $100, $25 less than its starting price.
Ooh, and knives with Damascene patterns. I think I liked those more than any gun there. I don't know if they were true Damascuss steel (since I'm pretty sure it's hard to get a hold of wootz, and you would need the process those scientists that tried recreating it had), but damn if they weren't beautiful.
Cops arrested the guy before anything more could be said. Arrested him the Sunday night before, and it was just for making the probably-too-serious threat. Funny enough, he was 21, and this was a high school, so... it seems an odd target.
Either way, nary a bullet was shot, so I'm happy for that.
EDIT: I should point out that I went to a gun show on Sunday (not the Sunday buddy got caught), and there was an awesome crossbow for sale, for $175, and a guy had an amazing composite bow that he offered to sell us for $100, $25 less than its starting price.
Ooh, and knives with Damascene patterns. I think I liked those more than any gun there. I don't know if they were true Damascuss steel (since I'm pretty sure it's hard to get a hold of wootz, and you would need the process those scientists that tried recreating it had), but damn if they weren't beautiful.
Nothing quite as intense as a school shooting, but when I was in fourth grade, they found two pipe bombs that had been planted on the school field. Nothing really became of it, and no one was injured, but bomb squad had to come in, shuffle everyone into the school library (which was hard, as there were only about 115 students), and then do controlled detonations.
Yeah, I can't wrap my head around how he got into school with the thing either. Did he hide it in a guitar case? I wonder if anyone was around when he did it, and how they feel.Demented Teddy said:
I sometimes wonder about suicide... I could never hurt myself though, I'm just too skiddish. I'm a bit of a wimp really; funny how that endangers me from the public while protecting me from myself.
something like that happend at my schoolStryc9 said:
the kid was deer hunting over the weekend and forgot to take his rifle out (it was still in the case with a lock on it) The principle just asked him to open the car so he can hold it in his office for the rest of the day(perks of a single A school) and told him not to do something so stupid agian.
Sorry to not reply to my own thread, but I used the rest of my day off to do laundry. Crazy crap. I think other people already covered this, but: he only shot himself, no one else, and they have no idea why yet or how he got an AK47. They do know that he ran around smiling at people and saying "Woohoo!" And he was a mathematics major.
Edit: Forgot I could just edit the first post, so now this one is kinda repetitive. Anyway, thanks for the concern, and to justify calling it a shooting, he fired like 6 shots out into the open (albeit not at anyone) and another couple inside the library before killing himself.
Edit: Forgot I could just edit the first post, so now this one is kinda repetitive. Anyway, thanks for the concern, and to justify calling it a shooting, he fired like 6 shots out into the open (albeit not at anyone) and another couple inside the library before killing himself.
I too attend the University of Texas and live in Jester and was preparing to leave for my first class of the day when the lock down began so I just went back to my room and got lots of extra sleep. Thus far, I have not seen any attempt to draw a correlation to Video Games, but I suspect such an accusation will come.
