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YowlingCat
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16 Feb 2008, 3:19 pm

squier, Your parents have taught you well. Just stay in frequent contact with them, because you never know what the universe is going to fling at you.
It's a sad fact of modern life, something that didn't occur when I was a child. Now, the US and Scotland, Japan, Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kenya, Canada, Yemen, and Finland. The US leads by a large margin, but it can happen anywhere.

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16 Feb 2008, 5:12 pm

squier wrote:
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I call for a ban on ever mentioning the name, or showing the face, of proven X-Human Garbage. They do not even deserve an Obituary, erase all trace


I would have to disagree. after the VT shooting, my parents kept talking about how they feel bad not only for the vicim's families, but the shooter's family.

also I just thought of this:
could this be upsetting me because I'm getting really close to high school (I just set up my 4 year plan, so I already know what classes I'll be doing for freshman and on, and it start's next school year) and that means I'm almost to the level of schooling where this stuff happens?


Could be. Do ~you~ think that's why? (It's your head you have to sort out, son. You'll get there. Good luck.)



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19 Feb 2008, 6:32 pm

YowlingCat wrote:
squier, Your parents have taught you well. Just stay in frequent contact with them, because you never know what the universe is going to fling at you.
It's a sad fact of modern life, something that didn't occur when I was a child. Now, the US and Scotland, Japan, Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kenya, Canada, Yemen, and Finland. The US leads by a large margin, but it can happen anywhere.

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I'm only 13, I still live with my parents


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20 Feb 2008, 1:09 am

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Every time there's a shooting on a campus anywhere in the world, we feel it.
Judging from the news, school shootings only occur in the United States...


There was one in Canada about a year and a half ago, wasn't there?


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20 Feb 2008, 2:50 am

Yeah it's pretty freaky when something that big happens so close to home.
The Thurston High School shooting back in 1998 was in the town right next to mine, and everyone in the area was pretty rattled afterwards. Bill Clinton even visited us afterwards....



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20 Feb 2008, 10:01 pm

I was flipping through a Soillder of Fortune magazine I bought for the ads. ( Army surplus clothes,books,) and I was a bit mortified to see they targeted the bullet proof vest ads at teachers. What about students?