Shooting at Va. Tech

The UK version of the ongoing SportsJournalists.com series, "What IN THE FUCK is wrong with these people?"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1686784.ece

(Go back under your rock, Camille.)

 

Outing alert: Yawn is Newt Gingrich.

Gingrich Blames Liberalism for Increasing Violence
Former House Speaker Says Young People Are Being Dehumanized by Video Game Violence
April 23, 2007 — - On Sunday former House Speaker Newt Gingrich blamed 40 years of liberalism for an increasingly violent and vicious society.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Gingrich said young people are being dehumanized by violence in video games, and liberalism has created a "zone of not being willing to talk about any of these things."

"We don't have any discussion about what's happened to our culture because while we're restricting political free speech under McCain-Feingold, we say it's impossible to restrict vulgar and vicious and anti-human speech," Gingrich said.

The potential GOP presidential contender commended President Bush's handling of Virginia Tech and touted "legitimate concealed carry" as his solution to last Monday's massacre.

"In states where people have been allowed to have concealed weapons," Gingrich said, "there have been incidents of this kind of killer who was stopped because, in fact, people who are law-abiding, people who are rational, and people who are responsible had the ability to stop them."

Gingrich also agreed for the need for more thorough background checks in gun purchases, in reference to states like Virginia not sharing mental health records with the federal database.

"I think that a person who is certified by a psychiatrist as potentially dangerous to others, that information should come up and that should block them from acquiring weapons," Gingrich said. Though he was quick to point out that "in the great cities of this country, where you have the most gun violence, it is by people breaking the law who manage to buy an illegal gun."

 

Third-degree burns are so bad you'd rather die?
Legit question. I've never had a burn injury other than a sunburn.

 

I think he's saying if you have to burn to death or fall to your death, he'd choose falling as the pain is only at the very end.

 

Really?

 

Wasn't that everything but the shooter's fault?

Jeez, we have an excuse for everything in this world now. No one is responsible for their actions, it's because society or circumstance or what they're exposed to made them do this. Bullshit. The kid was crazy, maybe because of how he was treated and what he was exposed to.. But millions of others go through the same shit and don't waste 32 people.

I've wondered for years what is wrong with people. On many levels.

 

I had plenty of "scraps" but I never got my ass kicked.

All I'm sayin.

 

There's a huge difference between taking an ass kicking and being the designated object of ridicule for your grade level. One hurts for a couple of days or so. The other can scar for life and ruin someone's childhood.

 

Seriously, what do you do if you are a kid being ridiculed? You're chubby, skinny, wearing the wrong clothes, too dumb, too smart, whatever?

Some kid(s) make a crack. Do you ignore them? Tell the teacher? Punch their lights out?

Trouble is when you are the object of ridicule, you have no good options.

That's why I tell my kids never to make fun of others. And it's hard. Kids are just like that. I also tell them not to allow other kids to make cracks about other people and especially don't join in.

What I would do is turn in back on the punks, loudly. If you said, for example, that my shirt is gay or something, I would say in a LOUD VOICE. "Why are you saying my shirt is gay? Are you asking me out?"

 

Yep. That was my point.

 

Check.