kinda would've liked if they used it for firefighting practice if they were going to demolish it but hey not my call
Is it Colonial styled or Colonial? The image isn't loading for me but I don't see any particular value in bulldozing a 300 year old structure because someone who lived in it went on a spree.
[QUOTE=draugur;47389148]So instead of using this as a chance to actually fix our terrible gun policies and horrid health care system, we've decided the best course of action is to simply ignore the entire thing and pretend these things never happen? Great.
I understand not wanting the memories and all but his mom and all the other victims of every shooting in this country have died in vain so long as we continue to do nothing to fix the issues that cause these events. It's like having a thousand houses burn down and kill entire families inside but not do anything to look into why it happened at all nor do anything to prevent future fires.[/QUOTE]
TIL that a township in Connecticut halted all US government legislation to do this.
I actually get it. Nobody wants to see an empty school where children were massacred, and nobody wants to drive past the house where the guy who carried out the massacre lives. Easier to get past the whole thing with the biggest reminders gone.
If it's just a house where a guy killed his wife or something, you can clean it up and sell it at a modest discount and people will get over it. But this is the home of a dude that murdered a bunch of kids. I understand not wanting it around. Fuck it, somebody will build something else. It's just an empty house.
[QUOTE=draugur;47389148]So instead of using this as a chance to actually fix our terrible gun policies and horrid health care system, we've decided the best course of action is to simply ignore the entire thing and pretend these things never happen? Great.
I understand not wanting the memories and all but his mom and all the other victims of every shooting in this country have died in vain so long as we continue to do nothing to fix the issues that cause these events. It's like having a thousand houses burn down and kill entire families inside but not do anything to look into why it happened at all nor do anything to prevent future fires.[/QUOTE]
Except that Connecticut passed the strictest gun laws in the country after Sandy Hook and began to explore ways to improve our mental health system in our state.
If you can't understand why this was done (both the house and especially the school), you're being intentionally obtuse.
am i the only one amazed that was in 2012? holy fuck i can't believe it was so long ago...
[QUOTE=PolarEventide;47389578]Except that Connecticut passed the strictest gun laws in the country after Sandy Hook and began to explore ways to improve our mental health system in our state.[/QUOTE]
I was speaking about the entire country as a whole, but good on Connecticut for doing something as a state.
[QUOTE=Srillo;47389599]If you can't understand why this was done (both the house and especially the school), you're being intentionally obtuse.[/QUOTE]
Jeez, you really don't understand why people are wanting to get rid of the reminders of a murderer who killed 20 little kids? You [B]really[/B] don't understand why people don't want to go to a school where a bunch of preschoolers where murdered in a very violent way? [B]really?[/B] Your going to call it obtuse?
[QUOTE=BusterBluth;47389630]Jeez, you really don't understand why people are wanting to get rid of the reminders of a murderer who killed 20 little kids? You [B]really[/B] don't understand why people don't want to go to a school where a bunch of preschoolers where murdered in a very violent way? [B]really?[/B] Your going to call it obtuse?[/QUOTE]
Think you read his post wrong because he basically said the same thing
[QUOTE=Starlight 456;47389649]Think you read his post wrong because he basically said the same thing[/QUOTE]
Oops never mind, sorry
[QUOTE=draugur;47389629]I was speaking about the entire country as a whole, but good on Connecticut for doing something as a state.[/QUOTE]
but an immense portion of the country - possibly more than half - does not want stricter gun laws
[QUOTE=joshuadim;47388481]Honestly that's fucking stupid
Its a fucking house, not a relic of anything
By their logic they should demolish the fucking school then[/QUOTE]
The school was scheduled to be demolished before the shooting anyway due to its age. The house, whil dumb not many people in the US would have bought it anyways.
[QUOTE=PolarEventide;47388859]He killed his mother there, yes, before going on the shooting rampage. The bank owned the house, and they gave it to the town at no cost. The town voted to tear it down after neighbors complained that they don't want the attraction.
The house would have inevitably become an attraction, and it's a small community. There's nothing wrong with this decision.
Not to mention it costed the town nothing. They were given the house for free by the bank, and a local construction company demolished it for free as a donation to the town.[/QUOTE]
There are multiple places in America that have "Murder houses" that are still standing.
I don't get how this is a bad thing to some of you. They knock down houses all the time for worse reasons.
[QUOTE=ImperialGuard;47389454]TIL that a township in Connecticut halted all US government legislation to do this.[/QUOTE]
No, and had you read above posts, you'd know that to not be true.
Adam Lanza's mother had a mortgage. Therefore, the bank owned the house. After the mother was killed, the bank gave the house to the town. The town owned the house when the decision to tear it down was made.
Some of you guys try way too hard to go against the grain of popular opinion.
[QUOTE=PolarEventide;47390058]No, and had you read above posts, you'd know that to not be true.
Adam Lanza's mother had a mortgage. Therefore, the bank owned the house. After the mother was killed, the bank gave the house to the town. The town owned the house when the decision to tear it down was made.[/QUOTE]
what
i was pretty obviously making fun of his post
[QUOTE=Tmaxx;47389615]am i the only one amazed that was in 2012? holy fuck i can't believe it was so long ago...[/QUOTE]
Jesus christ, time fucking flies once you're out of high school
At first I thought the demolition of the school and house were dumb, but thinking about it more I think its the right decision.
There's a lot of those studies linking stuff like mass shootings and the like as drives for attention, and that the media it creates is a big factor.
But by doing this, the town is sending a message along the lines of, "If you commit mass murder, we will erase you from history. You will not be remembered as a villain, you will not be remembered, you will be forgotten."
This seems kinda backwards, I mean when governments and nations erase history like this we consider it unacceptable, but there's a nuance in whats be erased here. Connecticut isn't trying to hide what happened, they're trying to hide who did it. They don't want him to become some kind of immortalized anti-hero that most mass murders become, and I can respect that.
Conspiracy confirmed.
Ps: I'm not talking about fucking "Illuminiati shit"
There was something weird about this incident.
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It's America. A murderer probably lived in your house at some point.
I think it's a community thing rather than a murder house/school thing.
Some people have standards for the community they want to live in. Having an infamous house and school for outsiders to come and gawk at may not be what they want. There are a lot weirdos in the world and these kinds of places attract them like flies to shit. It's best to scoop the shit up and toss it in the bin.
[QUOTE=InvaderNouga;47390356]Some of you guys try way too hard to go against the grain of popular opinion.[/QUOTE]
Why is that a problem, exactly?
I seem to recall columbine's then brand new library was demolished and rebuilt for the same bullshit, but what happened to Erick and Dylan's homes? Were they put under the ball?
Cleaning up evidence.
And then they poured holy water on the flat ground.
EVIL DEMONS BE GONE!
[QUOTE=Sector 7;47389664]but an immense portion of the country - possibly more than half - does not want stricter gun laws[/QUOTE]
Because there seems to be a good deal of people that believe gun regulation = DAMNED OL' ORANGABAMA WANNA TAKE MAH GUNS AWAY!
[QUOTE=Zero-Point;47403279]Because there seems to be a good deal of people that believe gun regulation = DAMNED OL' ORANGABAMA WANNA TAKE MAH GUNS AWAY![/QUOTE]
It's not like the politicians haven't suggested it. 21 second mark
[video=youtube;WQeq6ZzEQGA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQeq6ZzEQGA[/video]
She is still writing and proposing gun ban legislation. She brags about how she spent hundreds of hours [b]looking at pictures of guns to decide which ones should be banned.[/b]
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