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Undertoad · 03-08-2001, 03:32 PM

This is the bathroom in which the CA school shooting began.

I like pictures that personalize tragedy. Thus, the TX death row images. This one does it in a way that doesn't really tell us much about the shooting, though.

I wish the school shootings would end, of course. This is not because of feeling for those who were shot, or the families of those who were shot. This is feeling that these shootings are part of something larger than all of us. People die, that's a tragedy. People die needless, that's a bigger tragedy. People die and our overreaction causes more and greater problems than the original killings: that's the worst-case scenario.

I like tw's predictions. I want to predict as well. I predict that the overreaction to the shootings is going to be far, far worse than the shootings themselves. Think of what happens to a generation that's overprotected and still lives in fear.

The past generations feared the bomb. The next generation will fear each other. The humanity that it takes to recognize problems in these adolescents will be systematically erased from them. The problems that have led up to these shooting will continue and worsen. So I predict that there will be many more shootings to come.

03-08-2001, 03:32 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	This is the bathroom in which the CA school shooting began. I like pictures that personalize tragedy. Thus, the TX death row images. This one does it in a way that doesn't really tell us much about the shooting, though. I wish the school shootings would end, of course. This is not because of feeling for those who were shot, or the families of those who were shot. This is feeling that these shootings are part of something larger than all of us. People die, that's a tragedy. People die needless, that's a bigger tragedy. People die and our overreaction causes more and greater problems than the original killings: that's the worst-case scenario. I like tw's predictions. I want to predict as well. I predict that the overreaction to the shootings is going to be far, far worse than the shootings themselves. Think of what happens to a generation that's overprotected and still lives in fear. The past generations feared the bomb. The next generation will fear each other. The humanity that it takes to recognize problems in these adolescents will be systematically erased from them. The problems that have led up to these shooting will continue and worsen. So I predict that there will be many more shootings to come.