It seems like these tragic type incidents happen far too often in the U.S. amirite?

I mean really I feel like every fucking time I go onto yahoo or turn on the news I see shit like this. I'm legitimately getting fed up and annoyed. I'm not even shocked anymore when I hear stories like the one in Auraura

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Trust me, incidents every few years and a lot of failed attempts is soooo much better than a lot of other places. We're blessed to be living in countries that have great security and defense and such a high standard of living.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

People think I'm sick and evil because I'm so interested in shit like this. I just like crazy people.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"It seems like these tragic type incidents happen far too often, amirite?" Doubt you intended it to come off as such, but it seems a bit... off to only acknowledge how fucked up an event is if it's in your home country

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Nooooooooo All this post is really saying is that the U.S. is a supposed developed nation yet it seems every day there's shootings or horrific murders going on in different places. //Some// developed nation it is, was all the post was really saying

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think we just have that kind of media. Our media is every where and it's incredibly fast and since the USA is so big something happens almost everywhere and the media gets it told to everywhere. We probably don't even need to hear all the stories even if a life is taken... but I don't really mind it, I'm like the psycho up there, it interests me, I spent at least 3 hours straight watching cops shows on my laptop with a the TV on a cop show as well.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Try living in Syria or Libya or Iraq where attacks happen on innocent people, every single day.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ok I'm very aware it's light years worse than the U.S. over there, in no way was I trying to say that it's just as bad.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Watch the documentary Bowling For Columbine, it's older and whatnot but it gives reason for why the US, compared to other nations, has all of these attacks.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I saw most of that documentary, and didn't it just list why reasons that people use (violent movies, video games, and angry movies) aren't true? You could be right though because I didn't see all of it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The fact that we have them at all means they happen too much.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The media doesn't tell us any of the good things that happen.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think that there should be a show called "happy news" that shows all the great things goingon in the world

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well there're a lot of people in the US, after all there are 50 states. So something bad somewhere in the US is bound to happen and when it does the media gets it's greasy fingers on it and they make sure it gets 20+ stories on it

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There's 446,518 people in my bumfuck little town //alone//, of course shit's gonna happen all the time.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Love how everyone blames it on the media or large population rather than the fact that people are legitimately allowed to own guns. How often to you hear about gun massacres in a country with stricter gun control, like the UK?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But actually, in places where they have the most gun control is where the most attacks happen. People are less likely to attack others in a place like Montana, where everybody is armed with a gun. Plus, in the UK they don't make their criminals "famous" like we do.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Nonono. Uk = high gun control. Uk = extremely rare gun attacks. People are less likely to attack others in a place with high gun control, because they can't. In the states with 'high gun control', the people that can't get guns are left somewhat defenseless while those who can get them have the possibility to attack the defenseless (not saying everyone with a gun is a crazy murderer). So that's why I think no one, except police etc., should be allowed guns. I know some of you may think "oh if they really want a gun then they'll get one even if it's illegal", but in places like the UK that's barely even possible, because they can't get their hands on one. And consequently, less innocent people get shot.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

For one, not even the police carry guns, so they are defenseless when attacks happen, like the London Riots. Sometimes gun control wOrks for the UK, because they've had gun control for years and years. It's not possible to introduce here, because of our mindset of "the right to bear arms." plus, that requires millions of Americans who only use guns for protection or for hunting to give up their guns, which will cause a huge uproar. It may be a good idea, I don't think it could work.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's not the case at all. Compared to the rest of the world, the US is a peaceful utopian paradise. It's just that nobody freaks out when hundreds of people get shot daily in Somalia or Syria.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Again, I know those places are far, far worse. As a developed first world country though, we seem to really suck

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Technically we're just a little under 300 years old... We still have some things to figure out

by Anonymous 12 years ago