I am gonna be the one who has post anything about the godamned massacre at virginia tech. It has to be me?

Anyways

Blacksburg Virginia Technical school

32 people died

28 injured

AZN responsible.

biggest massacre in the ?

vtech just kicked in yo

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I really don't know what to say. It's fucked up on so many levels. I wish there was something I could say.

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People die every day.

The shooter will be punished if they catch him.

Virginia is nowhere near me.

In summary:  who cares?

PS  What's an AZN?

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peddling the funny around since 09/24/2002

One: you're a moron

Two: The guy offed himself

Three: Asian is AZN dumbass

Four: ?????

Four: Profit!

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I'm curious to know if these people, when going on a shooting rampage, strive to break the 'number of people killed' record. It's horrible to think that this is yet another trophy for people to aim for.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

There have already been at least two "copycats" today alone. Threats, anyway, I don't think they found anyone with a weapon. This actually scares the beejeezus out of me. It's really sad. There's nothing more any of us can say than it's really sad.

There is, however, a fund set up if anyone feels like they might want to donate. You can find that here: http://www.vt.edu/tragedy/memorial_fund.php

I know I'll be evaluating my next paycheck.

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DARKWING DUCK COULD HAVE SAVED THOSE PEOPLE, BUT WAS TOO BUSY MAKING COMICS ON THE INTERNET!

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Let's get dangerous!

some superhero you are

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xxausrottenxx

I can't be EVERYWHERE!

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gabe_billings

That's exactly the point that one psychologist made on one of the news programs last night.  The media needs to stop making such a point of proclaiming these shootings as some sort of 'record' because someone else who's just as wacked-out as this Virginia guy will make it a point to break that record.

Oh, and who wants to make bets as to how long will it take before someone blames this whole thing on video games?

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TheBlairZip

Jack Thompson's already done it.

God that guy is scum.

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Say, what game were they playing that gave them the crazy idea to launch the Crusades?

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gabe_billings

Dynamite Headdy.

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TheBlairZip

If you can blame the media for reporting stuff like this in a certain way, then you can blame video games.  The argument is the same:  making it seem like you're getting points for killing people.  Personally, I don't think you can blame either one; people have to be not-stupid enough to know the difference between reality and play. Also between records worth breaking and records not worth breaking.

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I agree that the argument is the same.  And I don't think any one is blaming the media for what happened Monday.  Just pointing out that you don't want to make the idea of 'going for kill points' any more inticing to some other sicko than it may already be.  Yes, it is a horrible tragedy, but don't overshadow the tragegy itself by making the point of it "Worst Killing Spree Ever!" or "Highest Body Count Ever!"

My point being, if some fucked-up lunatic pulls a copycat, ends up killing 34 people, and does it purely for bragging rights, then the media could partially be blamed.  This still does not excuse the fact that said individual is a fucked-up lunatic.

However, as of now, there's no indication that video games had anything to do with the motivations, strategery or implemenation of this heinous crime.  Therefore, Jack Thompson should immediately go stuff himself into a barrell full of diseased scorpions and take a plunge down Niagra Falls.

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TheBlairZip
We should have known to throw him in a room somewhere back when he was obsessed with destroying the 2 Live Crew.

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I think all those people jumping in front of bullets to beat 50 cent's hight score of nine shots survived is outragious! I believe much of the blame can be laid at the feet of the video game Bulletproof.

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The_young_scot

Jack Thompson's already done it.

God that guy is scum.

Chu Chu Rocket is corrupting the youth of America!

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TheBlairZip

No.  People are constantly bombarded with information of all sorts.  It's their responsibility to sort it out and not be idiots.  It's media's reponsibility is to sell copy / time / ads; thus the extreme headlines.

Everyone wants to blame everyone else these days.  South Korea fucking apologized for this kid.  How the hell was it Korea's fault?  But still, they felt compelled to say something.  There probably would've been some sort of uproar if they didn't.  This is the world we live in.

TheBlairZip

Well the kid was South Korean, right?  That's pretty much the highest per capita video game fanaticism per capita in the world.  Still no excuse, though.

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I've read everything that's out there on this case, and it seems to me: 1. that a person's first impulse is usually to say that so-and-so should have done such-and-such to stop the guy before he popped off, and 2. in this case, many people did everything they were supposed to do when encountering a wackjob, and it didn't stop this guy. I think the dude was broken, and nothing but a bullet would stop him.

Given the circumstances, I can think of only two conditions that would have prevented the rampage or mitigated the death toll, and neither of them is nice. One is if someone had crippled or killed him in the course of his woman-stalking career. The other is if more good people at VT were carrying handguns, and one of them had been in a position to put a bullet in this creep's brain before he used up all his ammo on innocent people. Again, living in an armed vigilante camp is not at the top of most people's wish list, but I can't think of anything else that would have stopped him.

The good news is that your chances of encountering a calculating sociopath on a killing spree are vanishingly remote. The bad news is, if you're a nice, law-abiding citizen, and it does happen, you're almost certainly toast.

I think almost everyone, myself included, is in profound denial of this fact. That's why we like to say someone should have done something. More gun control, less gun control, more therapy, less coddling, blah blah blah. To keep my sanity during the ensuing months, I'm concentrating on remembering that it's all bullshit, all of it, sheer vanity. We just like to think we're in control of our lives, but this is like having a truck crash into your living room while you're watching TV: In the unlikely event that it happens, you are fucked. Nobody likes it, but that's how it is.

Which is a good reason to be nice to people and say your prayers every day, or whatever it is you'd do if there were your last moments on Earth, because they just might be.

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This is the first comic I've made in a long time and it's not an indication of my writer's block clearing. It's an actual news interview I watched while getting ready to go to work this morning.

[Click to view comic: 'Say It With Knives.']

I'm not here to get into a great big discussion about gun laws or the United States Constitution. I just wanted it preserved.

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Each side of the gun argument will ridicule the other, but the truth is, neither side is ridiculous. Both sides have a point. It's not an easy issue. And none of us wants to start in on the gun debate, but hey, since someone brought it up...

I should be clear that I don't mean that more handguns on campus is necessarily a desirable thing, only that an armed person might have stopped the fucker before he killed all those people. Sure, Virginia might enact more laws further restricting the purchase and possession of firearms by law-abiding citizens, but the fact is, existing laws already prohibited possession of firearms on campus. The thing that sticks in a lot of people's craws is that the victims of this slaughter respected the State's gun laws and so were unarmed. The murderer, by definition, did not. Therefore, the law's only practical effect in this case was to make lawful persons defenseless and enable the criminal to execute them by the tens without fear of being stopped.

With tighter laws, this would still have been the case, only more so. To a proponent of the right to self-defense, legislating more gun control only makes the existing problem worse. Jokes notwithstanding, there is absolutely nothing stupid or ridiculous about this position. It just assumes a different problem. Gun control advocates assume that the problem is that people have guns. Self-defense advocates propose that the real problem is that only the wrong people have guns.

I don't know who's right because I don't know if more guns among law-abiding citizens means more gun crime because of poor impulse control, which I think is ultimately what the gun-grabbers are saying. It sort of sounds reasonable, but as far as I can tell, it's not borne out by any empirical study. The point is I don't know, and they don't either, and while we're arguing about it, many people in many places are just sitting ducks for any homicidal asshole who happens not to give a fuck about gun laws. That seems wrong to a lot of people who have thought very hard about the matter.

I would tend to default on the side of individual rights until the state can show strong evidence of a compelling community interest in diminishing those rights. Haven't seen it yet. But I don't take a hard-line stance either way, and like Kajun, I don't really want to have a completely unwinnable debate here. I just want to recognize that both sides have a point before we start making cartoons of each other and mistaking them for reality.

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But we can all agree that Jack Thompson is a cunt, right?

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An afterthought: Even in the most draconian anti-gun jurisdictions, it is the case that the judges, prosecutors, and usually (if not always) legislators enacting and enforcing these restrictions retain the right to carry a firearm, and the majority do not hesitate to exercise that right. So while they say the problem is that people have guns, in practice they agree with the gun rights advocates: The problem really is that the wrong people have guns. What judges, prosecutors, and legislators generally mean when they say people shouldn't have guns is that you and I shouldn't have them, but they should. And that is both hypocrisy and elitism bordering on outright oligarchy.

I have to admit that deep down, I am a big hypocrite too, and my ideal gun control policy would be that nobody but me and my friends and our hirelings would ever be trusted with something so dangerous as a handgun. I mean deep down, we're probably all like these judges, prosecutors, and lawmakers who espouse gun control while packing heat or hiring armed guards. We would all like to go through life with such an advantage, but that doesn't make it a good policy. In fact, it smacks of tyranny.

I used to be very staunchly in favor of outlawing handguns until I took the time to consider such views.

PS: It is so abundantly clear that Jack Thompson is a cunt that there can hardly be any opposing viewpoint to acknowledge.

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Damn, I meant to restrict what I said to officials to the USA. In other countries, it may not apply at all, but it applies here for sure. I will stop posting for a minute now.

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