Originally Posted by Stompy

Nah, people are acting like this is a sudden epidemic.

It's been happening for ages, you just never heard about it as much.

Just some loon walked on stage with a gun, shot someone, that's about it. It sucks, but it doesn't go beyond "they're a nutcase". They made a conscious choice (and being 25, you can't blame anyone but him) to shoot someone. Same with Mark David Chapman, same with Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth, etc.

It happens in all societies - it's called human nature. Nothing will change it short of doping everyone up and locking them in a cell. Even in the most perfect society, this will happen.

Everyone's acting like this is the apocalypse and the end of the world, but in reality nothing has changed much. The media is an attention whore, so you will be hearing a lot about these types of things from now on, whereas before they were kept hush hush.

You REALLY think columbine was the first time a kid brought a gun and shot up the students?