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Nice Plant #7: Get me off of this planet

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Gurtholfin said:
Or at least, preliminary reports of one.
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Confirmed by CNN, who broke in from their Ebola coverage for which they had broken in from their ISIS coverage. Presumably, Fox broke in from their Benghazi coverage.
 
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Kepler said:
Confirmed by CNN, who broke in from their Ebola coverage for which they had broken in from their ISIS coverage. Presumably, Fox broke in from their Benghazi coverage.
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I thought CNN was still covering MH370 or whatever it was.
 
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Sounds like the shooter took his life and one of the victims may have died.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Sounds like the shooter took his life and one of the victims may have died.
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What is the illness with this people that they have to kill someone first before they can kill themselves? Obviously both are awful but for crying out loud, why ruin so many others lives first?
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
What is the illness with this people that they have to kill someone first before they can kill themselves? Obviously both are awful but for crying out loud, why ruin so many others lives first?
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This was a nice looking, seemingly well adjusted lad. On the freshman football team. Elected by his class mates to the homecoming court. What on earth could make him homicidal and suicidal? We rush to explain these events with the usual bromides: "he was bullied," "he had broken up with his girl friend," "he had been picked on because of his native American heritage," etc. All of these explanations confuse correlation with causation. Because if these common, every day irritants can cause normal kids to become mass killers, then we'd have shootings like this every day. There was something much deeper going on with this boy. Perhaps he'd given off "unmistakable" clues (like Wu Tang Klan at Virginia Tech) perhaps not. Usually these folks don't glow in the dark. And those closest to them are generally the last to know how bad things have gotten. One thing's for certain: in hindsight, we're all able to see this coming. On the surface, this lad does seem to be different from our stereotype views. Popular. Athletic. Not a loner. Not a member of the "Trench Coat Mafia."


Dr. Demento is a psychiatrist. I'd be interested to learn what his take is. For instance, had this kid been seeing anyone professionally?
 
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Remember that the "burn down Hot Topic" kids are acting out (often flamboyantly). Stereotypes aside, that probably helps them deal with teenage angst, which seems to be universal, more than the "normal" kid who is the apple of his parents' and peers' eye. Teens are still coming to grips with being leaky bags of emotional chemicals. Since cases like this are incredibly rare, it may be difficult to generalize, and we're probably fooling ourselves if we create checklists based on looks, popularity, clothing, etc.
 
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Kepler said:
Remember that the "burn down Hot Topic" kids are acting out (often flamboyantly). Stereotypes aside, that probably helps them deal with teenage angst, which seems to be universal, more than the "normal" kid who is the apple of his parents' and peers' eye. Teens are still coming to grips with being leaky bags of emotional chemicals. Since cases like this are incredibly rare, it may be difficult to generalize, and we're probably fooling ourselves if we create checklists based on looks, popularity, clothing, etc.
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Count on you to misinterpret. Instead of being an anti-social loner like so many of these shooters are (Adam Lanza, Klebold and Harris for instance) this kid was apparantly just the opposite. That's merely an observation and not an explanation. Nobody said or implied anything about "creating a check list." Do you have to be such a putz all the time?
 
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Old Pio said:
Count on you to misinterpret. Instead of being an anti-social loner like so many of these shooters are (Adam Lanza, Klebold and Harris for instance) this kid was apparantly just the opposite. That's merely an observation and not an explanation. Nobody said or implied anything about "creating a check list." Do you have to be such a putz all the time?
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Umm...

He may have been agreeing with you.
 
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The kid was clearly a basket case and anyone who read his Twitter account should have realized it. They should have confronted him or done something about it.

Maybe they had since he attempted to kill relatives.

Either way, this kid was all sorts of ****ed up.
 
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Old Pio said:
Count on you to misinterpret. Instead of being an anti-social loner like so many of these shooters are (Adam Lanza, Klebold and Harris for instance) this kid was apparantly just the opposite. That's merely an observation and not an explanation. Nobody said or implied anything about "creating a check list." Do you have to be such a putz all the time?
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I was agreeing with you, and it was obvious. You're a fool.
 
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