Shooting reported at Purdue University, IN. One injured, suspect in custody.
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Couldn't get on this thread until now, but I'm a student at Purdue. Both of my roommates knew the victim (they're both in Electrical/Computer Engineering) and say that he was a really nice guy. My girlfriend was going into the building via the skybridge on the second floor when it started and saw kids running out screaming. I was in a building somewhat close by, and saw SWAT block off all the exits - most were in plain clothes with assault rifles. It was kind of scary because we didn't know what the shooter looked like, so people ended up running away from the SWAT team too.
The saddest thing for my roommates is that they both knew it was over a girl. Both the shooter and the victim were ECE TAs at one point, and the girl left the shooter for the victim. Friends of friends who knew the shooter have said that he didn't really show any obvious signs, except that he kept to himself a lot, which I suppose is enough.
[QUOTE=Boaraes;43626586]To be frank, gun debates aren't particularly the most friendly kind. They never start well, and it just festers until the thread dies. First comment in the thread was some snarky assumption, and to this page I still see people being dicks to each other. The state of the thread hasn't changed since the first reply, in my opinion. I'm probably not doing anything to help it, but it's whatever. It was doomed from the moment I decided to make it.
Not only gun threads, but threads about feminism are also never good. Any news that's even barely related to feminism immediately turns into a shitfest as soon as some specific people (not going to name any names) post irrelevant and unwanted provocations and spark something no one asked for.
Long story short, news threads should never become debate threads. We have a debate section for a reason. The discussion should be about the story AKA the title of the fucking thread. This is all my opinion, of course. Feel free to disagree. I just think unwarranted senseless arguing ruins the quality of thread from what could have been a simple discussion. There are [I]very[/I] little posts about the shooting itself. That's sad, really.[/QUOTE]
Sparks come from both and any sides that exist on ANY hot button issue.
This shooting happened, and is awful. People want to prevent tragedy, so they're going to talk about how we could stop it in the future; unless anyone directly knew these people there's not much to talk about in that regard, especially as this JUST happened, meaning motive or circumstances are largely unknown.
I understand. Sorry I was a little hot headed because a few of my family goes to Purdue and my Dad and his side of the family went there. I'm going there soon so it was rather personal with having to deal with my relatives and whatnot.
[QUOTE=lolz3;43625897]Start with the people that are already Government slaves submitting to their masters for shit money then go against people that would actually fight for the Constitution and Countries building blocks. When a country is disarmed the Government now has free reign over all and can do what ever they want. It's our founding fathers greatest warning. The one reason why the public should not be disarmed is for the rise of Government tyranny.
Yet, this falls on deaf ears and is mocked and made fun of by Government slaves and people that have no idea what the fuck they are talking about. Every country in the world has been crushed and destroyed by Governments trying to enslave the public in under 400 years. Unlike millions of people, I know politics and history. Democrats want a Government that will enslave everyone. Republicans want a Government that's severely unstable which would fall in on itself because people would have too much freedom. The perfect system would be a Government of 45%D-55%R, no more, no less. Limiting the Government to where it should be involved and giving the people what they are entitled to.[/QUOTE]
This is just so insanely paranoid I don't even know where to start. How about the fact that not a single empire (that I can think of) has fallen apart because the government enslaved their own people?
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;43633767]This is just so insanely paranoid I don't even know where to start. How about the fact that not a single [B]empire[/B] (that I can think of) has fallen apart because the government enslaved their own people?[/QUOTE]
you're right, they fell because they failed to realize that the quest 4 empire eventually destroys all great nations
[QUOTE=BFG9000;43635374]you're right, they fell because they failed to realize that the quest 4 empire eventually destroys all great nations[/QUOTE]
They didn't fall because they enslaved their population though, paranoid republicans spouting their loony crap once again.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;43635400]They didn't fall because they enslaved their population though, paranoid republicans spouting their loony crap once again.[/QUOTE]
It was a reference to your title
[QUOTE=BFG9000;43635450]It was a reference to your title[/QUOTE]
I know. I set that title amost 3 and a half years ago. Eventually I'll change it to something less retarded.
I Know this guy who got shot from my alliance in cyber nations. It's a sad day.
[QUOTE=Stopper;43621674]Dude, the US has it's own separate page on Wikipedia for school shootings. In what reality do you live in where 28 school shootings in one year is not often?[/QUOTE]
[url=http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/number-us-public-schools.html]There are over 98,000 schools in America, not including private schools[/url]. 28/98,817 = a .02% chance of a school being a victim of a shooting per year.
[QUOTE=Garlickeh;43622223]it's a lot fucking more than the rest of the world[/QUOTE]
Yea and suicide rates in japan is double that of the US and triple that of the UK. The whole world is fucked up kiddo. But no let's just focus on one little thing.
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