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Subject: In the US, we are a sick society

Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.

Please allow me to introduce Myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith

I mean this.

You can argue gun control, but that doesn't address the true and real problem. Incidents like today's would happen with or without guns. Sure, the body count would be lower, but an incident would have still happened.

We have become a cold and uncaring people. We do our best to avoid contact, and look to take no responsibility for our own actions. We feel entitled to things we do not earn, and get angry and resentful when we don't get what we want.

Now, we want a fix. A cute thing we can put on a bumper sticker, a cop out like a shirt or rubber bracelet.

Be good to one another. Strike up a conversation with a stranger and make a connection. Let's end this path we are on. Yeah, its awkward, but by fixing what's really wrong will we prevent tragedies like today.

  • 12.14.2012 1:22 PM PDT
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''I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart. ''

Suddenly all these threads!

  • 12.14.2012 1:23 PM PDT
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To obtain, something of equal value must be lost.

Humans are violent pathetic creatures who have repeated the same mistakes for thousands of years. Nothing is going to change anytime soon - at least not in our lifetime.

  • 12.14.2012 1:23 PM PDT

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  • 12.14.2012 1:23 PM PDT

I think I'd rather die, than see what humanity becomes in the future.

  • 12.14.2012 1:24 PM PDT
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It certainly does bear asking why the number of "psychopath" incidents seems to be so much higher in the US than elsewhere.

  • 12.14.2012 1:24 PM PDT

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Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Be good to one another. Strike up a conversation with a stranger and make a connection. Let's end this path we are on. Yeah, its awkward, but by fixing what's really wrong will we prevent tragedies like today.

  • 12.14.2012 1:25 PM PDT

Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.

Please allow me to introduce Myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith


Posted by: Telec
It certainly does bear asking why the number of "psychopath" incidents seems to be so much higher in the US than elsewhere.
Exactly.

Especially since things haven't always been this way.

  • 12.14.2012 1:25 PM PDT

Dear tomorrow, Find some sensibility, Respond to emotion.
Dear Politician, Define sagacity,
All chances of survival are beginning to diminish.
Comedy is no excuse for our own blasphemies.
Mass media, Mass pessimism, Mass Denial.
My television tells me to panic, but I don't think I'll listen.
The apathetic force us to persevere, with their backwards priorities.

Perched upon our towers, motionless and miserable
Here's to a comfortable casket
How deceiving is the cemetery of motivation
I wish to write a conclusion

  • 12.14.2012 1:26 PM PDT
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We all wear masks and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin.

Casualties could potentially be higher because they'd switch to bombs over guns.

  • 12.14.2012 1:27 PM PDT

Because everyone thinks that every member of my religion is evil and a killer I'm gonna reply to this thread by saying this country is great and everyone is great. That way I avoid any problems.

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We all wear masks and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin.


Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie

Posted by: Telec
It certainly does bear asking why the number of "psychopath" incidents seems to be so much higher in the US than elsewhere.
Exactly.

Especially since things haven't always been this way.


Statistically speaking, it's the white people that are prone to doing -blam!- like this.

  • 12.14.2012 1:28 PM PDT

Derp


Posted by: NinjaLord77
Because everyone thinks that every member of my religion is evil and a killer I'm gonna reply to this thread by saying this country is great and everyone is great. That way I avoid any problems.
darn christians, always killing people.

nahh, but anyways, people suck, perhaps we should all kill oursleves after spreading life throughout the galaxy

  • 12.14.2012 1:29 PM PDT


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Posted by: NinjaLord77
Because everyone thinks that every member of my religion is evil and a killer I'm gonna reply to this thread by saying this country is great and everyone is great. That way I avoid any problems.
darn christians, always killing people.

nahh, but anyways, people suck, perhaps we should all kill oursleves after spreading life throughout the galaxy


I'm not Christian

  • 12.14.2012 1:30 PM PDT

No thought required, just spawn and GOOOOOOOOOOO

You mean... In the world?

This happens in every country. To sit down and say "Darn, Us americans sure are twisted" would be EXTREMELY narcissistic and conceded, not to mention... ignorant.

  • 12.14.2012 1:30 PM PDT

Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.

Please allow me to introduce Myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith


Posted by: Buddha Milk

Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie

Posted by: Telec
It certainly does bear asking why the number of "psychopath" incidents seems to be so much higher in the US than elsewhere.
Exactly.

Especially since things haven't always been this way.


Statistically speaking, it's the white people that are prone to doing -blam!- like this.


Irrelevant. A society as a whole is the problem, not any subset within it. Stop trying to pass the buck by saying, not me, or not my group.

Its all of us. We all need to do something.

I encourage you and everyone, get out there and make a connection. Talk to someone, get to know them. Lets stop loners from acting out by getting rid of people who feel alone.

  • 12.14.2012 1:30 PM PDT

My honor student can beat up your honor student.


Posted by: NinjaLord77
Because everyone thinks that every member of my religion is evil and a killer I'm gonna reply to this thread by saying this country is great and everyone is great. That way I avoid any problems.
That's only treating symptoms, not the disease.

This is exactly our problem today. We turn a blind eye to the real issues and mask them with cop-outs in hopes of escaping actual confrontation, which could lead a solution, instead of another shooting a few years down the road, and a few years after that, and a few years after that.

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Posted by: Doorway of Truth
Humans are violent pathetic creatures who have repeated the same mistakes for thousands of years. Nothing is going to change anytime soon - at least not in our lifetime.


Grow up!

  • 12.14.2012 1:32 PM PDT

<3

Yeah well in the old days people liked to watch executions in public and own slaves so you could argue that we are nowhere near as cold and uncaring as we used to be.

Oh yeah there were mass murderers back then too.

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  • 12.14.2012 1:32 PM PDT

(V)!_!(V) crab

Personally I always thought it would be a brilliant idea to make a psychology course mandatory and label it something like, "health and wellness." This course could teach the essentials like finding community resources and out reach programs as well as proper ways to deal with attitudes and behaviours such as anger, grief, saddness, anxiety, etc.

  • 12.14.2012 1:32 PM PDT

Anyone like this is an evil bastard. It's just that the US is so big and I believe is lacking in morals and that's why it's hard to prevent stuff like this.

  • 12.14.2012 1:34 PM PDT

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What house has a rocket pod, has legs, and has a long narrow barrel that probably shoots something powerful?

Sounds like you're describing the lower half of my body, actually.

Why do I feel like I am in a forum with people who have so much angst?

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Posted by: Buddha Milk

Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie

Posted by: Telec
It certainly does bear asking why the number of "psychopath" incidents seems to be so much higher in the US than elsewhere.
Exactly.

Especially since things haven't always been this way.


Statistically speaking, it's the white people that are prone to doing -blam!- like this.
Because black people don't site in their own countries and kill each other either right??

  • 12.14.2012 1:35 PM PDT


Posted by: TH3_AV3NG3R
Why do I feel like I am in a forum with people who have so much angst?

A majority of the flood (including me) are teenagers.

  • 12.14.2012 1:35 PM PDT
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We all wear masks and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin.


Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie

Posted by: Buddha Milk

Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie

Posted by: Telec
It certainly does bear asking why the number of "psychopath" incidents seems to be so much higher in the US than elsewhere.
Exactly.

Especially since things haven't always been this way.


Statistically speaking, it's the white people that are prone to doing -blam!- like this.


Irrelevant. A society as a whole is the problem, not any subset within it. Stop trying to pass the buck by saying, not me, or not my group.

Its all of us. We all need to do something.

I encourage you and everyone, get out there and make a connection. Talk to someone, get to know them. Lets stop loners from acting out by getting rid of people who feel alone.


I'm white.

Truth is truth, fact is fact. Crime statistics prove stereotypes for certain crimes are accurate by how big the number of said ethnic group committing those crimes are.

  • 12.14.2012 1:35 PM PDT