Shooting in Texas

[EHKOS]

It's hardly a mass shooting if only three people were injured. This is barely even news anymore, it's not exciting unless it's a big number. Now I feel bad

 

[Madgamer13]

Greets!

An argument in America that didn't result in fatalities? Disgraceful, I would recommend issuing an assault rifle to every student in America, regardless of age, so that their arguments so not miss their target.

That is, of course, a joke. Any recommendation of mine is not needed in the land of the free, they are good enough at... shooting themselves in the foot? *wink wink nudge nudge*

Hah, I made a funny and I didn't have to unload a semi-automatic to do so. Arn't I barbaric and uncivilised?

 

[Th37thTrump3t]

Does anyone else get the feeling that maybe the true reason these shootings are going on is because we are hyping the fuck out of them and the fucked up people who commit them, and then the equally as fucked up people decide that "Hey this is a good idea," and decide to go shoot up a school/theater/etc?

Why do I dread the idea that these shootings happen because the shooters were "inspired" by the previous incidents? It's interesting how it only happens in 'murica as well.

And people will blame the rifles when it's clearly the media that turn these people into fucking icons.

I guess so.

 

[Hunter.Wolf]

Speak for yourself. I'm an American who is sick of being surrounded by gun-nuts, and I know plenty of other Americans who agree. I'm sick of having my freedoms compromised by the fact that I have to watch out for people with deadly and efficient weapons, and I know plenty of other Americans who agree. One of them is the sitting President. Mind cutting out the persecution complex, maybe?

Good to see there are still some sane people in this world.

 

[DanDeFool]

-rambling-

Considering that there have now been FOUR shootings at schools in TWO weeks I think that we can AT LEAST make the case for laws to prevent CHILDREN getting their hands on guns and using them in fights!

Still won't work. If their parents can own guns, and don't secure them properly, the kids could get the guns that way.

At some point, you just have to rely on people to be smart and do the responsible thing. The government can't do it all for us.

Well it's evident that they can't do it for themselves either... SOMEBODY has to step up to the plate...

I disagree. I'm perfectly okay (at this point) with leaving people to their own devices in this regard, because the risk of me or someone I know coming to harm in this way is vanishingly small compared to risks I accept already (e.g., driving), and I'd much rather lose the few to protect the rights of the many than lose the rights of the many to save a few.

Besides, like I said in my ramblings that you probably didn't read or care about, it's too much work and it really won't help anyway, so why bother? At the end of the day, there are still going to be crazy, dangerous people out there, and you're going to have to live with it.

 

[Tiger Sora]

'Merica, da fahhh brah???

When will the media stop reporting on this stuff. They sensationalize it and other people who have issues and guns are gona imitate this stuff. Report the news, news. You're not meant to somewhat inadvertently create it. Especially this.

I and the many before can repeat this over and over as we have. Yet nothing will change less I go sit infront the big media companies building with ten thousand others right?

American's, your country has 10 times the people of mine. Someone start a rally or something.

 

[JemothSkarii]

*looks up location of the college*

Damn, nowhere near my ex...

Anyways, horribly black and bad taste joke aside, the title is certainly sensational. But good fortune to the three people who got shot, and a swift incapacitation to the shooter.

Link for proof of shooting? Here:

http://www.smh.com.au/world/students-flee-as-three-people-shot-at-us-college-20130123-2d5sy.html

 

[Duskwaith]

Why do I dread the idea that these shootings happen because the shooters were "inspired" by the previous incidents? It's interesting how it only happens in 'murica as well.

I saw a documentary about spree shootings where they interviewed some professor of psychiatry and he explicitly stated that the wide spread coverage of mass shootings will on seek to increase the numbers of them due to copy cats etc. Ill try to get a clip of the documentary to back the statement up.

such as this as an example, check the motivation title
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_%28Australia%29#cite_note-22

 

[bossfight1]

Oh US, now you're just being ridiculous. Seems like they don't even wait for the last one to end before starting the next. Maybe the NRA was right all along, at this rate schools will be empty before any regulations are through!

At least two people were shot at Lone Star College in Texas on Tuesday, according to local news reports.

An alert posted on the school's website warned students to take shelter.

"LSC-North Harris is locked down," the alert read. "Students, faculty and staff are advised to take immediate shelter where you are. Do not enter the campus until notified further."

Aerial footage showed SWAT team members evacuating students several buildings on the campus in North Harris County near Houston.

A female student told KTRK-TV heard five shots fired in an area between the library and the cafeteria. Other students say they heard gunshots when they were in cafeteria.

[SOURCE] [http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/shooting-texas-college-campus-reports-191439016.html]​

Posting a warning on their website? I'm not sure how effective that can be...

Also, Lone Star College?
http://people.rit.edu/smm5348/409/castpics/lonestar.gif

Maybe the shooter was Lonestar's former roommate... or something.

Odds are I'm going to hell for laughing at this. God dammit, Mel Brooks.

 

[mitchell271]

This is breaking news, just happened less then 20 minutes ago. A shooting has taken place in a Texas College. No reports of deaths yet but numerous injuries are confirmed.

This is just staggering. How a nation can tolerate this bullshit with such an obvious reason is mindboggling.

We need more guns they said. We'll be safer that way they said.

Also, here's an article link. http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/01/texas_official_3_wounded_in_co.html

 

[lunavixen]

Two people being shot counts as a mass shooting?

I think it closer to an isolated shooting, but how many victims (injured or dead) do there have to be before it can be qualified as a 'mass shooting'? It's a very loose term

 

[Carlston]

By "obvious reason" I'm certain you are referring to the media's macabre fascination with shootings and spree killers and how we turn them into celebrities?

Two people is not a "Mass shooting." just a shooting.

Let's be honest. There is no more crime this year than last year. They are only reporting every shooting cause the president wants to pass gun control over Ar-15 which account for about 1 percent of shootings, instead of hand guns which accoutn for 90 percent. A flase cloak of security, banning long jackets and backpacks, the fake metal detector type false show of doing something when really....they aren't.


Control them guns, I mean we outlawed booze in the 30's no one could buy...oh wait,
Well drugs we outlawed drugs cant be found or bought by.... oh right...

yeah bad idea

 

[lechat]

what if anti-gun activists are going out shooting ppl in the hopes of changes being made?

 

[BOOM headshot65]

Two people being shot counts as a mass shooting?

I think it closer to an isolated shooting, but how many victims (injured or dead) do there have to be before it can be qualified as a 'mass shooting'? It's a very loose term

Offical terming for a mass shooting, as defined by the FBI, is 4+ dead in one shooting.

 

[lunavixen]

Two people being shot counts as a mass shooting?

I think it closer to an isolated shooting, but how many victims (injured or dead) do there have to be before it can be qualified as a 'mass shooting'? It's a very loose term

Offical terming for a mass shooting, as defined by the FBI, is 4+ dead in one shooting.

Thanks for the info, it's good to know there is solid criteria for this kind of thing.

As sad as it is to hear about people being injured or killed, this was not a mass shooting.

 

[TrulyBritish]

According to this [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/22/lone-star-college-shooting_n_2527806.html#26_lone-star-says-situation-under-control] the situation is under control. Apparently it was an altercation between a few students. Doesn't sound like a premeditated shooting, but who knows at this point.

Surely that's not any better. Not premeditated in any way but two jerks with guns just decide to open fire on each other? That seems a reason to me to not trust people entirely to use guns. The only plus I see to this news is at least there were no mass deaths and maybe this damp squib of a shooting will make prospective psychopaths think twice about how "dramatic" and how "infamous" they'll be.

 

[barbzilla]

I'm sorry but I am becoming rather sick of all the "Murica" crap being thrown about in the escapist as of late. I understand that we are having some screwed up shit going on right now, but not all of us are gun wielding rednecks with insane political agendas. Just because our Media is some kind of screwed up corporate backwash who's moral compass points south doesn't give the rest of the world a right to lump all Americans in with the group. This is what is called prejudice and bigotry.

OT: This wasn't a mass shooting, and this wasn't a school shooting. This was a shooting that happened on a school campus. Please get your facts right before posting them.

 

[Carlston]

This is breaking news, just happened less then 20 minutes ago. A shooting has taken place in a Texas College. No reports of deaths yet but numerous injuries are confirmed.

This is just staggering. How a nation can tolerate this bullshit with such an obvious reason is mindboggling.

We have tolerated it for the past 30 years. Why is this year special?

Every shooter is mentally disabled or has a excuse. No one in this country would take a campain to ban cars for drunk drivers now would we? No you blame the driver not the car.

Obama's menatlity on the whole assault rifle ban would not only use the example above but add in language like this. "Instead of 12 gallon gas tanks which allow innocent drunks to drive hundreds of miles without refueling, we will scale all cars back to five gallon tanks. Also the addition of spoilers, racing stripes and 'fast" colors will be limited to one as it increases the cars deadliness and encourages high speed behavior.

This is America in a nut shell. A gun man kills lots of kids. Is gun man a millionair and alive? No, what closest to the killing can generate money in a law suit... guns? video games? Twinkies? (look up the sugar overload twinkie defense I sh*t ya not)

Ignore real problem, don't blame the only person TO blame. Sue,ather, rinse, repeat,

 

[Sylveria]

This is breaking news, just happened less then 20 minutes ago. A shooting has taken place in a Texas College. No reports of deaths yet but numerous injuries are confirmed.

This is just staggering. How a nation can tolerate this bullshit with such an obvious reason is mindboggling.

3 injuries. It was a dispute in which one of two people involved yanked out his gun. Guy running around waving a knife could have just as easily injured as many people. Shall we try to ban those to like the UK wants to do since they had that nice 400% increase in stabbings after their gun ban as well as a huge spike in violent crime because the entire country became a soft-target zone?

 

[blaize2010]

By "obvious reason" I'm certain you are referring to the media's macabre fascination with shootings and spree killers and how we turn them into celebrities?

Thank you Guppy. You just saved the thread and prevented a tirade from yours truly.

I am indebted to you.

Yes, quite. Good show, old boy.