Driver kills three....A mental test will be coming soon

[rgarthman1969]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061002/...chool_shooting

[ben45750]

who will the mental test be for?????

[golfhobo]

This is a very sad situation. Was the driver Amish? (I didn't click the link - watching on TV.)

Sounds like he was about to lose his job, and ability to feed his kids, over a random drug screen, I don't know. Maybe, he blew a joint 29 days ago and was worried about it showing up?

They say it was retribution for something that happened 20 years ago... when he was 12! :shock:

What could THAT be?? Was he maybe an alter boy in the Catholic church?

Or a PAGE for Rep. Foley???

Like I always said... GUNS don't kill people, crazy Amish truckers with guns do!

[Douglas]

Damn. This country's on a roll. :sad: This is the 3rd deadly school shooting in just one week!!

This kind of think is becoming a bit too common. Not good, not good at all. :sad:

[flatbedder]

I dont think he was amish, but anyhow he had a wife and 3 kids that he had left suicide notes for. If people want to kill themselves, why do they have to involve innocent bystanders? there are some sick individuals out there :sad:

[Twilight Flyer]

Being a moderator, many times I have to bite my tongue.

Ain't gonna do it this time.

I am damn sick and tired of sub-human slime like this guy. ****'em. If cowardly *****s like this are so hell-bent on going out with a bang and a news-story, whey don't they go find some big empty field, call the press, put a grenade in their mouth, and pull the pin.

That way, they get their big splash, no one else is hurt, we can give them a little golf clap and the world goes on.

This piece of **** lined up the girls and executed them...all over a 20 year old grudge. :evil: And what the hell did they do to him?!? They weren't even born then!

No-balled little pissant coward. I hope he burns in hell.

[golfhobo]

TwilightFlyer: Hey, dude! Even SuperHeros can be HUMAN! I feel your pain, Man! And I agree!!

Your secret is safe with ME.... just don't let Yoopr near the ban button!!

Wonder why he let all the BOYS go free? Some kinda Chinese thing? I suspect some girl broke his itty bitty heart when he was a noob!!

I no longer understand... nor even RECOGNIZE this world we live in!!

Hobo

[Twilight Flyer]

I no longer understand... nor even RECOGNIZE this world we live in!!

It's goin' to hell fast.

[Mackman]

It's goin' to hell fast.

I cant agree with you more. i told my dad i got robbed i wish i grew up in the 50's or 60's when the world seem more normal every one is crazy nowadays. It is a sad thing what happen in Lancaster ain't that far away from me maybe 15 miles. I hate to see the world another 30 years from now.

[T * Storm]

I no longer understand... nor even RECOGNIZE this world we live in!!

It's goin' to hell fast.

I'm pissed !!! Twilight Flyer - being a moderator you finally get to speak your mind. I agree with you 1000000++++%. Truth is truth.

[T * Storm]

It's goin' to hell fast.

I cant agree with you more. i told my dad i got robbed i wish i grew up in the 50's or 60's when the world seem more normal every one is crazy nowadays. It is a sad thing what happen in Lancaster ain't that far away from me maybe 15 miles. I hate to see the world another 30 years from now.

I don't know if the world is getting worse or if the atrocities are getting better (?) press.

[golfhobo]

I no longer understand... nor even RECOGNIZE this world we live in!!

It's goin' to hell fast.

That's an interesting statement. You know EVERY generation said the SAME thing! Could things have REALLY been this bad in our youth, JUST because Elvis wiggled his hips??

You know what I mean. Is our perspective just different because of the 24 hour media? Or have WE let things get out of control??

We're the smartest, most highly technological society to EVER walk the face of Earth. WHY, oh WHY... do we insist on shooting ourselves in the foot?

Does anyone ELSE see that "sexuality" has become our Achilles Heel?

Or is it something ELSE?

[Douglas]

Being a moderator, many times I have to bite my tongue.


No-balled little pissant coward. I hope he burns in hell.

Don't worry. He will. :twisted:

Even mods have to blow off steam sometime.

[Windwalker]

Damn. This country's on a roll. :sad: This is the 3rd deadly school shooting in just one week!!

This kind of think is becoming a bit too common. Not good, not good at all. :sad:

And 5 just in the last 30 days. The number of school shootings is going up every year. Even worse, the so called "EXPERTS" say there is no way to stop it.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15105984/?GT1=8618

[Mackman]

Windwalker how would you stop it :?: If a crazy nut has his mind set to do something fu*ked up like that he will. Unless you lock down the schools like prison.

[Douglas]

Damn. This country's on a roll. :sad: This is the 3rd deadly school shooting in just one week!!

This kind of think is becoming a bit too common. Not good, not good at all. :sad:

And 5 just in the last 30 days. The number of school shootings is going up every year. Even worse, the so called "EXPERTS" say there is no way to stop it.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15105984/?GT1=8618

I thought so schools had metal detectors and whatnot? :?: All the freakin' rules for nothin.

[Twilight Flyer]

Well, this one was an Amish one-room school. Didn't even have electricity! Straight out of the 1800's...what on earth would possess this P.O.S. to go after an Amish school?!?

[T * Storm]

Damn. This country's on a roll. :sad: This is the 3rd deadly school shooting in just one week!!

This kind of think is becoming a bit too common. Not good, not good at all. :sad:

And 5 just in the last 30 days. The number of school shootings is going up every year. Even worse, the so called "EXPERTS" say there is no way to stop it.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15105984/?GT1=8618

I thought so schools had metal detectors and whatnot? :?: All the freakin' rules for nothin.

The major inner city schools have the metal detectors. The "It could never happen here" schools don't. I think that the federal govt should make it mandatory for ALL schools to get them and to hire a security guard to monitor the detectors with a direct link to the LEOs like the banks have.

[Windwalker]

I no longer understand... nor even RECOGNIZE this world we live in!!

It's goin' to hell fast.

That's an interesting statement. You know EVERY generation said the SAME thing! Could things have REALLY been this bad in our youth, JUST because Elvis wiggled his hips??

You know what I mean. Is our perspective just different because of the 24 hour media? Or have WE let things get out of control??

We're the smartest, most highly technological society to EVER walk the face of Earth. WHY, oh WHY... do we insist on shooting ourselves in the foot?

Does anyone ELSE see that "sexuality" has become our Achilles Heel?

Or is it something ELSE?

For what it's worth... I grew up BEFORE this "SPARE THE ROD AND SPOIL THE CHILD" movement became popular. I had my pants "dusted" many times when I was a kid. And, no matter how bad I felt about someone in school, taking a gun and blowing anyone away was about the LAST thing I would have considered doing. Today, there is NO CORRECTION until AFTER they "do onto others".

[golfhobo]

Windwalker said:

For what it's worth... I grew up BEFORE this "SPARE THE ROD AND SPOIL THE CHILD" movement became popular. I had my pants "dusted" many times when I was a kid. And, no matter how bad I felt about someone in school, taking a gun and blowing anyone away was about the LAST thing I would have considered doing. Today, there is NO CORRECTION until AFTER they "do onto others".

So did I, Wind. As a preacher's son, who loved to "cut up" on the back row at church, I've been "blistered" by every form of *****willow branch, hickory stick and leather belt! I didn't LIKE it... but I learned about "consequences." I was also somewhat smaller when I was young, and different, so I've been beaten and shamed by bullies all my life.

Did I grab a gun and start shooting??? NO! Like you said, it never even ocurred to me! So what is different now?

Is it the 24hr news media who glorify and sensationalize every instance of violence in this country? Or is it something else?

I say it is the lack of control, moderation, and regulation of VIDEO GAMES that desensitize our youth to the consequences of being "blown away" by guns, and the exhaltation of those who score highest by killing the most "targets."

Were GUNS any less scarce when WE were young? NO. Were there any less BULLIES? No. Were principals and teachers any less caring? NO. Were young girls any less coquettish? NO! Were parents any less distracted? No. So.... what is different?

It is the glory and the challenge of KILLING people who mean NOTHING to you, as some truckers and MOST kids do EVERY day on video games!

Give a 4 year old kid an "L" shaped stick today, and see if he doesn't start pointing it and going BANG! Where did he learn that? [Saw this on a news clip last night... not even related to the problem!]

I'm not saying I didn't play Cowboys and Indians when I was a kid. I DID! But, I never saw the glory of the blood and destruction that is shown on video games today.

If we don't WAKE UP and understand the MENTAL development of children today, we are destined for MORE of this "carnage." Think back to every shooting episode that has made the news in the last 20 years. How many of them involved people OVER 50 years of age? Very few. I am 50, and I grew up with PONG! Shortly after that... I dropped out because I couldn't hang. Now... how many killers have been YOUNGER than me? About 90% of them!

What happened in between? The computer revolution.... and the onset of bloody video games.

I could be WRONG, folks. It's JUST a theory! YOU be the judge... and, if you have children... YOU make your OWN decisions. But, don't be surprised if I hold YOU responsible. Unless, of course, you can give me a clue to a BETTER culprit!

Hobo