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Those people that issued the threats sure did film and mail their manifestos in quickly.


Pretty scary stuff.



Edited, Apr 19th 2007 8:49pm by trickybeck

Again, I don't see how phoning in bomb threats is a result of airing the videotape.

If they actually bombed a school AND mailed in a tape, then you'd have something.



Edited, Apr 19th 2007 8:53pm by trickybeck

Then why issue a threat, which only results in (a) the school closing and/or (b) your arrest.

A threat isn't related at all. What you call "imagination" is your crusade of finding things to write the words "scary stuff, IMO" about.



So my opinion is just a "theory," but yours is what's certainly going to happen.



(And you're willing to let the Earth's climate shift catastrophically to test your theory about global warming? I hope to god you're right. I really do.)

I want to know why Cho, chose to speak like Napoleon Dynamite in his video manifesto ensemble.

because people who may have psychological issues and have thought of the idea prior now see this guy who has actually done it, and see how much attention he is getting. It doesnt matter if its positive or negative attention. The fact is, we're paying more attention to what the killer said/did/wrote than we are the victims.

If your looking for similarities in the people who have pulled off school shootings a common factor is that the killers tend to be loners, social outcasts. In the end, what they achieved was infamy. To someone who is notmentally stable to begin with, thinking of trying out whats been done, they're not going to care what attention they recieve so long as they get attention period.


I cant believe Im siding with Gbaji on this one, but I would rather take every bomb/killing spree threat as a potentially serious threat than to see another VT happen, just because we assumed it was someone only saying something. If it takes inconvenience to keep people alive, than inconvenience me.

or years. The killer of VT brought up the killers of Columbine, saying he was just like them. There was a lot of media coverage on those two as well. Who is to say that the ramifications will be immediate? It doesnt have to be for the damage to have been done. All it takes is one mentally sick mind and a motive, no matter how skewed it might be. If they see how much attention the killer of VT got, its just another incentive.

I mean really, would any of us have actually read the guys plays if it wasnt splashed all over the media outlets? No. But we all know Richard McBeef now.

Oh good, I'm glad you agree also.

Im still baffled that people give any freedom up so easily when blackmailed with fear.
I guesstimate that 0.0000000001 % of all the bomb threats are legit, something happens and theyre all taken super seriously (again)?
And how is are bomb threats in relation with a shooting?

Ill bet youll be swearing again in a month or two when the local shopping mall gets closed on youre shopping day bc of a "stupid" bomb threat.



Passing standardized Psych evaluations is cake even for a half wit.

"you see a sick and abandoned puppy on the street what do you do?

a) help the puppy in any way you can.
b) eat the puppy with a sidedish of babys.
c) you kick the puppy to tenderize it then eat it with a sidedish of babies."

I havent done a psych evaluation test that wasnt an insult to my intelligence.

Edited, Apr 20th 2007 5:07am by Sjans

We must have two completely different interpurtations of what "liberal" means.

Ruport Murdoch is a conservative, you ignorant twat.

How is playing it safe when the area you are at has received a threat giving up freedom? While the number of actual bombings/shootings, etc may be smaller than the amount of threats, how are you to know which one is real and which is just someone trying to get attention? Your life may not amount to enough that you're willing to take a gamble on such a thing. Personally, my life is more worthwhile. I want to keep it as long as I can.

Not a result of the shootings neccessarily. Same thing happened last month. Kid got charged for writing threatening messages on the bathroom walls.

Putting that on the air could lead others to do it. It's not neccessarily likely but it could happen. That being said people are being WAY to paranoid. I bet they have more security at VT right now. Why? It's an irrational response. The event already occurred, but they'll have more security there just incase someone else decides to try it (you know, cause that's a likely scenario).

Now everyone looks at everything and assumes it's becuase of VT, but bomb threats etc are actually very common. You just don't hear about them until something like this happens and they suddenly become news.

It was within NBC's rights to show it. I still think that they should have made the editorial decision not to show it. It serves the public no real use except to titillate with gossip while providing validation to the killer's actions in that he got his stuff published.

I don't think it'll create a rise in mass-killings or whatever, just that it was a poor journalistic decision. And, yes, I know all the usual "they're just in it for money!!" lines -- it doesn't mean I agree with it even if I understand it.