Glock 9 sales skyrocket.

You would think anyway.

I'm irritated about the world-wide attention this shit in Virginia is getting but it made me think about something. If your friend or family member got killed as one of 30+ victims of a mass murder spree, (do you think) it would affect your emotions more than it would if Blaze Fatboy cracked your brother over the head with a Louisville Slugger and killed him in some random robbing? Think about it and tell me what you come up with.

Me, I don't give a shit. My brother or whoever is dead and nothing changes that. It's not like these shits were tortured or anything. As long as that gunman is dead after the fact there's not really much I can do or grieve over other than the fact that my brother's dead. At least the relatives and friends of these poor dead bastards know this Korean fucker's dead.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

No, no. I'm not saying these fuckers should just get over it. I'm just curious and want to see other perspectives on why this would hurt you more than it would if he just got shot for ten dollars. I said he's dead in both scenarios, but I never said it wasn't a big deal either way.

And hell, I don't expect a College Campus to be fucking safe. Wasn't there some freak fuck that went into a daycare some years ago and took care of business this way too?

Hypothetically DN.

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Originally Posted by RacinReaver

I think what's bothering most people is how the deaths are seen as being senseless. Like how if they're a soldier or a policeman or something like that, then they're giving their life for a cause (and it was taken as a known risk) versus getting shot in the back of the head while reading a book in the library.

See, the book comment, its almost like there's an underlying mentality with all this... Like I'm being told these people deserve to die less than others. That these people need to be mourned for more. That the world needs to be absorbed with this mess in Virginia. It pisses me off when I watch the Guatemalan news and see these reporters talking about this topic as if their Catholic ruler had just been assassinated when on a daily basis at least half of that amount die for no good reason in this city alone. Can you imagine the amount of deaths in some of these real shithole countries? And they're probbably just as senselessly wrapped up in this like the rest of the world.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Well, yeah. Totally right. I'm pretty fucking surprised about this shit too like anyone else. It just seems like people are taking that surprise and turning it into some morbid shock. It's like all the flags on cars after 9/11 and Walmart taking advantage of that demand. Not nearly as disgusting though.

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Originally Posted by Bradylama

As for the topic, I guess I'd be more bummed out about a random senseless massacre, and more angry about the individual killing. When it's just your loved one who's killed, the effect is all the more personal.

That hits it right on the head as far as my opinion on the difference goes. It's good to be aware of why you feel the way you. =p

I was speaking idiomatically.

Would a massacre like this, exact same setting and everything, be as big of a deal anywhere else in the world?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?