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| December 15, 2012 at 7:45 pm Quote #21415 | |
 steecoe (1986) |
Why? steecoeQuote |
| December 15, 2012 at 9:03 pm Quote #21430 | |
 Wes (6118) | TURN OFF THE NEWS……. “You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here’s why. It’s because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single *victim* of Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he’ll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody. CNN’s article says that if the body count “holds up”, this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer’s face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer’s identity? None that I’ve seen yet. Because they don’t sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you’ve just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next. You can help by forgetting you ever read this man’s name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by turning off the news. VHT Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/3731315524 WesQuote |
| December 15, 2012 at 9:49 pm Quote #21432 | |
 jroundy (1418) |
Agreed. Unless you are going to wage war on your neighbors, it is completely unnecessary. If you feel otherwise, why not legalize explosives? RPG’s? A small nuclear device? Where do you draw the line? The poor folks play for keeps down here…They’re the living dead. Nobody rules these streets at night like Van Halen!! jroundyQuote |
| December 15, 2012 at 10:40 pm Quote #21434 | |
 guitard (7354) |
I also read this and was a little suspicious about the veracity regarding the author, so I checked snopes. Snopes said: We haven’t found any source documenting the attribution of these words to actor Morgan Freeman, so most likely the quote is something that originated elsewhere and was later attributed to Morgan Freeman to lend it a sense of gravitas. http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/newtown.asp guitardQuote |
| December 16, 2012 at 2:48 am Quote #21436 | |
| Wes (6118) | Yea, I was just passing along what was being posted on facebook. Regardless of who it’s from….it’s an interesting point of view. VHT Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/3731315524 WesQuote |
| December 16, 2012 at 12:18 pm Quote #21442 | |
 sickman (2380) | A woman that my wife knows through work lost her daughter in this shooting. A whole different level of sadness with this one. I don’t even know what to say. sickmanQuote |
| December 17, 2012 at 5:43 am Quote #21464 | |
 animal (788) | |
| December 17, 2012 at 2:10 pm Quote #21471 | |
 PT5150 (6290) | Very sad.Those poor childeren and adults.RIP EDDIE’S fingers aren’t fingers they are muscle-powered pistons that hammer guitar strings to the fretboard with the force of a rivet gun”. PT5150Quote |
| December 21, 2012 at 8:43 am Quote #21534 | |
| sickman (2380) | There will be a moment of silence at 9:30 this morning to honor the lives of the 20 children and 6 adults killed 1 week ago. All church bells in Connecticut will toll 26 times this morning in their memory. It is a cold and rainy morning here in CT. The sky is cryin’. sickmanQuote |
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