throughsilver wrote:
asfish wrote:
This must be the worst every school shooting the US has had
In terms of utter malice, the
Bath school massacre boggles my mind nearly a century on.
Always makes me tremendously upset, reading that. The epic scale of cuntery there is something to behold.
asfish wrote:
A lot of the time in US school shootings, it’s a teenager who has had a shitty time at school via his peers, not for one minute saying this makes it right, but in these cases there is some twisted logic and reason why the wrong person can go mental when bullied and when they have access to guns.
With this guy I don’t understand he was 20, and shot a load of 6 years olds, what could they have ever done to hurt him? He was 14 when most of them where born.
I would imagine the mentality is a form of attention seeking. Many who contemplate suicide do it as a form of attention seeking, a way of saying to the world "Look what you've made me do. If only you were all less cunty, I'd still be here" kind of thing. But just killing yourself in the post-Columbine world isn't much of a statement, you probably won't even get a small mention in the local paper. However, go on a shooting spree and take out a load of innocent bystanders and you're national news. Walk into a primary school and murder as many innocent school children as you can and the entire world will be talking about you, they'll want to know your name, what you look like, they'll want to know what on Earth could've happened that made you want to do what you've done. Then everyone will know your torment.
I imagine that as long as it remains a fairly trivial matter for a mentally troubled individual to gain access to firearms, this will keep happening. And it'll probably get worse.