Thread: Frozen Chosen Challenge MVP

Not really. People remember that person as 'some crazed lunatic', not 'Sid Jones' or whatever. The only exception as far as I can be bothered to think would be Lee Harvey Oswald, but that's because of the drama afterwards (court case, assassination, etc.).

The only way people get remembered is by being notoriously evil (e.g. Hitler) or good (e.g. Ghandi).

Violence of this type is nothing new to America. The target has changed but the number of these incidents has remained roughly the same for decades.

In fact, Duwe found that mass murder was just as common during the 1920s and early 1930s as it is today. The difference is that then, mass murderers tended to be failed farmers who killed their families because they could no longer provide for them, then killed themselves. Their crimes embodied the despair and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, the sense that they and their families would be better off in the hereafter than in the here and now.

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Since America has such a high rate of these types of killings compared to other countries, it's clear that there are several factors in our society that contribute to making people unstable. Is it our stress on "Rugged Individualism"? Is it our emphasize on pursuing an "American Dream" that doesn't exist? Is it a combination of those characteristics and others? I guess the unique qualities that have helped America become the superpower it is today, have a downside.

Ask someone that doesn't live anywhere near there in a year if they remember these two events.

As for why it happens so often? Simple logic:

We have 301,139,947 people(according to the CIA).
Any population that large is going to have a large amount of mentally disturbed people in it.
We have easy access to firearms.

Crazies + ability to walk into a gunshow and walk out that day with a S&W = very interesting times

Originally Posted by Jeffro

I wonder why. :nope:

Woman kills 2, herself at La. college

Woman kills 2, herself at La. college - Yahoo! News

6 Dead After Gunfire at Mo. Meeting

ABC News: 6 Dead After Gunfire at Mo. Meeting


Only a fucking coward would ever use a gun in terms of redemption.

I hate it when these morons decide to take out other people. If you're ready to kill yourself, go do it. You want to blow your head off? Fine. Just don't go taking potshots at other people, asshole. SOME people actually like the world that's treated you like shit.