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Originally Posted by roachboy
--these folk were themselves traumatized and were engaging in a bit of compulsive repetition as a way to neutralize the implications of what they were watching.
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Yeah, I agree. We were all completely stunned, and honestly didn't know what to do - -so in that we were in the same boat as everyone else. We knew that we were telling people that the USA as they knew it was no more. That's a pretty heavy burden to have to tell someone. We were also grieving along with you, not only for the incident, but because many of our friends and colleagues died that day as well.
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on this shooting/murduer-suicide:
i find very strange indeed reports and emails that i have been getting about cranked up "security" at other campuses around the country in "response" to the vt shootings. what is that about?
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That one's easy. Just about every time something like this happens, some people decide to copycat it. Unfortunately, you never know where those people are, so you step up security everywhere to try and prevent it.
I saw an interesting article by a psychologist once on Columbine - -don't ask me to cite it because I can't remember where I found it, but it's message has stuck with me. Dylan and Kliebold got their 15 minutes of fame and then some because of what they did - - this psychologist theorized that at least in some of the cases, the shootings that followed were partially if not wholly motivated by this fact. Kid wants to be famous? Well one way to guarantee that is to become notorious.
This is just another incident like this - and some misguided kid somewhere might decide that he, too, wants to be famous. . .