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School Shooting at Elementary School in Connecticut [27+ dead including 20+ children]

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Mesoian said:
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Oh it's gonna be a classy day...
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Just wait till they search his house and they find M rated games like Call of Duty.

Whole situation is shitty.
 
Rocket Scientist said:
LOL you're serious. Then it'd just be ''someone hacked his account!'' and ''it must be him for so and so reason!'' ''Same name same palce!'' He owes you nothing, you and all these other morons sharing the picture owe him not to accuse him of something merely because of his name. You're disgusting.
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Where the fuck did you get that he owes the internet something, I just commented that he could take all uncertainty away with a simple comment on his public profile photo. Everyone sharing his picture can not see any of his private posts. You're disgusting.
 
MIMIC said:
His settings are where only friends can see status updates.
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That's how mine are. Shouldn't have to make your shit public because the media decides to release the name of the shooter in such a fashion and then try to say "oh your share a name and location MUST BE YOU."
 
Devolution said:
If anything it just proves his identity shouldn't have just been thrown out like that. It's the complete fault of the media.




The shooter is dead. Just by posting he's confirming that's not him unless somehow it got hacked.
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I don't really know if you can blame the media for this. I think it's an aspect of our society. People being morbidly curious about stuff like this isn't new. If something like this had happen in the 1960s, people would just have to wait until the newspaper had details. Now we just are able to get details much quicker. People leave a larger internet than they did even 10 years ago. Every post and picture can be scrutinized so that people can try and figure out one simple question. Why?

A police officer or someone who worked with the first responders, or someone from the community would have leaked the name eventually. It would have spread. I get your point, but I don't really see what difference it makes. It would have been released or "known" pretty quickly. I just think that we (NeoGAF) as a community have to be more careful about hunting out and posting info with disregard for it's validity. Some of the news organizations are obviously using their viewers as a way to get info. They want us to hunt down information and find it for them.
 
t26 said:
Except bullying was a factor in Columbine and Virginia Tech.
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Um, I was horribly bullied in school and at home and I never went out and shot anybody. Would've been nice if schools took it more seriously -- punishing bullies and teaching the victims how to deal with it, would've saved me years of therapy and a whole lotta cash, but yeah. Bullied people aren't necessarily going to become the devil like those guys.
 
Sir Fragula said:
Weird how that works.

An adult has far more social connections, far more experience and knowledge that's just lost on their death. The younger a kid is, the less of that they have until they're basically just blank slates whose real value comes from the attachment of their parents and family. A sane, logical society would mourn the old more than the young, if they were forced to differentiate.

Sentimentality's odd, huh?
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Sir Fragula said:
I mean that's exactly the reaction you get if you actually voice that opinion, but it's not one based on any real logic is it? I just find it an interesting flaw in Human reasoning, though one which has an obvious biological root. "Protect kids, preserve the species".
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Sir Fragula said:
English. It's not a cultural thing though is it? It's a biological imperative that people translate into what they assume to be a universally accepted truth. One that doesn't really stand up to any intellectual rigour. And it's such an ingrained aspect of our psychology that even voicing a dissenting opinion is considered abhorrent.

I mean don't get me wrong - I'm appalled by today's events. It's just that this is the conclusion of a tangent started by a comment I thought was a bit absurd. I'll probably stop now as it's getting very off topic and a little bit disrespectful (which really wasn't the intent).
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Amazing how someone can sound so pretentious and self-righteous... yet still be wrong. A child's death is seen as more tragic because a) they are more vulnerable, and b) they have just started their lives/connections and everything about them is potential and their future.
 
Grizzlyjin said:
I don't really know if you can blame the media for this. I think it's an aspect of our society. People being morbidly curious about stuff like this isn't new. If something like this had happen in the 1960s, people would just have to wait until the newspaper had details. Now we just are able to get details much quicker. People leave a larger internet than they did even 10 years ago. Every post and picture can be scrutinized so that people can try and figure out one simple question. Why?

A police officer or someone who worked with the first responders, or someone from the community would have leaked the name eventually. It would have spread. I get your point, but I don't really see what difference it makes. It would have been released or "known" pretty quickly. I just think that we (NeoGAF) as a community have to be more careful about hunting out and posting info with disregard for it's validity. Some of the news organizations are obviously using their viewers as a way to get info. They want us to hunt down information and find it for them.
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You've got the internet and the media decides to just leak a name willy nilly and even post the facebook unconfirmed that it's the right person. It's entirely the media's fault.
 
Devolution said:
That's how mine are. Shouldn't have to make your shit public because the media decides to release the name of the shooter in such a fashion and then try to say "oh your share a name and location MUST BE YOU."
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Same only mine is completely private, the only thing you can see is my profile picture.
 
I saw a screencap on /b/ of a thread that went on yesterday. OP said he was going to kill himself today and he'd try to make it to the news. He said to watch the news at 9:00 am. The only clue he gave, is that he lives/d in Connecticut.

Did this shooter kill himself?
 
i want his damn FB public so we can see if these replies from him are legit. everyone saying it's not him but more and more and more news agencies are posting that pic.

unless there's a 2nd person doing all the updating...
 
Holy christ, news, stop interviewing these kids. Fuck, leave them alone. Let the cops do what they must, hopefully with psychologists present, but keep the damned microphones away from the kids. I don't need to fucking know how many bullets some little kid heard. Seriously. Stop.
 
flippedb said:
I saw a screencap on /b/ of a thread that went on yesterday. OP said he was going to kill himself today and he'd try to make it to the news. He said to watch the news at 9:00 am. The only clue he gave, is that he lives/d in Connecticut.

Did this shooter kill himself?
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No details yet on how he died
 
flippedb said:
I saw a screencap on /b/ of a thread that went on yesterday. OP said he was going to kill himself today and he'd try to make it to the news. He said to watch the news at 9:00 am. The only clue he gave, is that he lives/d in Connecticut.

Did this shooter kill himself?
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Presumably, yes. There has been no suggestion by police of any sort of shootout.
 
flippedb said:
I saw a screencap on /b/ of a thread that went on yesterday. OP said he was going to kill himself today and he'd try to make it to the news. He said to watch the news at 9:00 am. The only clue he gave, is that he lives/d in Connecticut.

Did this shooter kill himself?
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Not confirmed as of yet.
 
RDreamer said:
Holy christ, news, stop interviewing these kids. Fuck, leave them alone. Let the cops do what they must, hopefully with psychologists present, but keep the damned microphones away from the kids. I don't need to fucking know how many bullets some little kid heard. Seriously. Stop.
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Nobody's making you watch, friend.
 
flippedb said:
I saw a screencap on /b/ of a thread that went on yesterday. OP said he was going to kill himself today and he'd try to make it to the news. He said to watch the news at 9:00 am. The only clue he gave, is that he lives/d in Connecticut.

Did this shooter kill himself?
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yes, last I heard.
 
flippedb said:
I saw a screencap on /b/ of a thread that went on yesterday. OP said he was going to kill himself today and he'd try to make it to the news. He said to watch the news at 9:00 am. The only clue he gave, is that he lives/d in Connecticut.

Did this shooter kill himself?
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I'm going to have to guess it's fake, there's always screencaps like that posted on there for /b/ to get some cheap laughs when a few medias eventually does bite the bait and say he posted about it on 4chan.
 
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