NIU Shooting

I don't expect people to shy away from the news.

But I don't like it when people bitch about how terrible this is and so on while they are creating the problem themselves. It's very hypocritical.

...and you think that the families will be left alone? They'll a throng of reporters on their ass.

 

Well I'm not a reporter, and I'm not broadcasting my postings all over the world. I suppose a few people in the lounge might resort to mass murder/suicide, but the majority of us here wouldn't. So how am I making these people celebrities?

I just think those who died deserve a bit more than some inexperienced guy telling them to just get over it! Have you ever experienced death in your life?

I have quite a few times, and it can be very disturbing. Especially when those who've died were extremely close to you. Just have some god damn compassion for one thing in your life besides everything anti-american.

 

I have to agree with Rubin here. It sucks, its sad, but the amount of people that die in the US due to violence every day is like a needle in a hay stack in comparison to most countries. I mean i have cousins in Israel who cant leave there house without the fear of getting blown to bits. I mean one of them had 4 friends die in a bombing the other day.

Its sad, i feel for them, but in the grand scheme of things...well, its not that sad in comparison.

 

You are talking about it with their friends, just like everyone else...

News gets spread.

Hell, I'm part of the problem right now just by talking about it, but hell.. I don't think it needs fixin'. I don't think there's a way of fixin' it.

Those who died deserve a pretty funeral, and some peace.

Have I experienced death? Yes, ofcourse. It's no good, no ma'am. Yet, that doesn't have to do with much.

 

its better dead than paralyzed, or a vegitable

 

It's always more sad to someone when it's so close to home. When you realize that hey that could have been you, or it could have been your child. I'm a mom, and when my daughter goes to school I'm going to have to be worrying about these things too. I wasn't worried before, but now that all of these mental kids and freaks are going nutso and SO violent. It's just scary. You have to wonder about our futures, and most important, the futures of our children.

Sure the kids dieing of aids in africa is sad and horrible, and sure the fear your cousins in isreal have is terrible and sad. But I'm talking about America. The home of my child, and my future children. You never know what's going to happen.

 

First of all man I'm not the ones poppin bullets in people. Neither are any of the people here. Second.. we arent the fucking reporters, so if you have a problem with it go bitch at them, dont bring your bullshit to us.

 

Yeah... Israel seems to have this air of paranoia. Everyone keeps on going on with their lifes, has fun, and so on, but there is always this feeling of tension in the air... because of that slight chance that something might happen.

You can sit in a bus in Tel Aviv and look at people's eyes as they enter. Many of them act cool, but everyone knows what's on the back of their mind.

 

I mean it's not like I'm shedding a tear or anything for these people today, and normally I don't really care. It's just another day, another news headline.

I guess my feelings about it have changed though since Jade came along. She means so much to me, and I can sympathize with those parent's out there who are dealing with this shit. I'm not sad really.. Just more respectful maybe?

 

It's crazy when shit like that happens. I didn't truly grasp its magnitude until it hit home. One minute I'm sleeping the next I'm being woken up with
"Kelsey, Kristen is okay, but there was a shooting at NIU. It's really serious. etc.."
So I call up my sister who sounds rough as hell. She was into the health center and some kid came running in holding his head, which happened to be bleeding profusely from a gunshot.
That's fucked up.
Nobody should have to deal with shit like that.
Nobody.

Here's to all the people that were affected by it.

 

That makes more sense.

It just pisses me off when the news make a huge story out of it. You know that it will only lead to a dozen more.

 

fuck you. that was rude as hell.

 

So your whole gist is about the media spreading the news. Which is their job by the way. Write a letter man. Or move out of the country.

 

Yet your daughter is safer then almost anywhere else in the world. I was just using that as an example. It has nothing to do with the fact that they are my cousins friends. I mean people get slaughtered by the hundreds as we speak in Darfur.

I mean we have a better chance of surviving then any previous generation. As well as a better chance of surviving then the people in 95% of other countries. At least. Instead of worrying about the 1 in a in 100 million chance (at least) of being shot in a school shooting, we should just be greatfull for the fact that the odds are that slim.

 

Jadesmom-
I respect more than you'll ever know.

 

The media broadcasts this because it gives it high ratings.

Always comes back to the people.

 

that's nice.. I didn't mean that anyone wasn't except maybe brave sir rubin, but I understand his pov entirely now. And I probably have the same.. Just a little different. Sometimes talking about something makes you better realize your true feelings. You know?

 

I smoke with one kid from NIU almost every weekend. His best friend was sitting right behind a kid who got shot in the face.

 

Again. That's their job. To report. We as Americans have a right to know about major events that happen in our society.

Your saying it's no different than the people die in the ghetto or children starving in some far off land. Tell me how we would even know about the people dieing in the ghetto or children starving if it wasn't for the people informing us of it? So I agree with what you said.. it does come back to the people. People make the events, and people broadast it.

 

fuck you too bitch, i would rather die than not be able to walk again EVER, and id much rather die than be a fuckin non-responsive vegitable. ****