I'm not going to get an answer on this. I never do. But I'm going to ask anyway. How, exactly, would more gun control have prevented this? It wasn't legal for the kids to have the guns they did *now*. So, we need more things to charge their corpses with? It *certainly* wasn't legal for them to have explosive devices -- do we need to make it illegal to buy silly putty and vaseline, just in case a kid has an oxidizer laying around?
What would gun control have done for this situation? Nothing. How might things have turned out differently if someone had had a hunting rifle out in their truck? We'll never know. But perhaps these kids could have been stopped before they killed so many.
Computer games are not the problem. The problem is the social setting of high school. When I went to school, I was a nerd. I was, of course, tormented and teased, as no doubt all nerds are. I survived. I've been watching. In the decade or so since I graduated from high school, it seems that he division betweenthe nerds and the jocks, the ins and the outs, has gotten worse. A lot worse. More, since teachers tend to be afraid to interfere, the jocks get away with doing worse. "He was such a quiet kid..." goes the common refrain. Of course he was. That was how he survived in the jungle of high school. Maybe no one would notice he was intelligent if he kept his mouth shut. These kids, it seems, banded together to defend themselves. I suspect this only got them ostracized further -- after all, they were a 'gang'. As if high school football teams are often less than a gang... Folks, we've got a problem. We are driving our intelligent children out of society. Look at what we say -- "Intelligence is good!" -- and look at what we reward -- physical strength. Is it really any wonder that we hve kids going nuts when they have what we claim to value, and we punish them for it? We have a problem. I don't have a workable solution. Does anyone?
Exactly. You have hit the nail on the head first try. Most of the people who are complaining about RedHat are people who are annoyed that they are no longer considered '3133t |-|/-\|3Rs' for running linux. These people are lemmings just as much as people who switch to NT 'because everyone else is doing it'. Personally, I think Redhat is doing a wonderful job. There are a few problems with RPM, such as not being able to say 'I really do have this library, don't worry about it but tell me about any others', but overall the system is good. The thing that really annoys me about people who complain about RedHat is that they don't complain about problems like the one above -- they complain that RedHat has made it possible for anyone to run Linux. Well, DUH! That *is* kind of the point, you know.
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I'm not going to get an answer on this. I never do. But I'm going to ask anyway.
How, exactly, would more gun control have prevented this? It wasn't legal for the kids to have the guns they did *now*. So, we need more things to charge their corpses with?
It *certainly* wasn't legal for them to have explosive devices -- do we need to make it illegal to buy silly putty and vaseline, just in case a kid has an oxidizer laying around?
What would gun control have done for this situation? Nothing.
How might things have turned out differently if someone had had a hunting rifle out in their truck? We'll never know. But perhaps these kids could have been stopped before they killed so many.
Computer games are not the problem.
The problem is the social setting of high school. When I went to school, I was a nerd. I was, of course, tormented and teased, as no doubt all nerds are. I survived.
I've been watching. In the decade or so since I graduated from high school, it seems that he division betweenthe nerds and the jocks, the ins and the outs, has gotten worse. A lot worse.
More, since teachers tend to be afraid to interfere, the jocks get away with doing worse.
"He was such a quiet kid..." goes the common refrain.
Of course he was. That was how he survived in the jungle of high school. Maybe no one would notice he was intelligent if he kept his mouth shut.
These kids, it seems, banded together to defend themselves. I suspect this only got them ostracized further -- after all, they were a 'gang'. As if high school football teams are often less than a gang...
Folks, we've got a problem. We are driving our intelligent children out of society. Look at what we say -- "Intelligence is good!" -- and look at what we reward -- physical strength. Is it really any wonder that we hve kids going nuts when they have what we claim to value, and we punish them for it?
We have a problem.
I don't have a workable solution.
Does anyone?
Exactly. You have hit the nail on the head first try.
Most of the people who are complaining about RedHat are people who are annoyed that they are no longer considered '3133t |-|/-\|3Rs' for running linux.
These people are lemmings just as much as people who switch to NT 'because everyone else is doing it'.
Personally, I think Redhat is doing a wonderful job. There are a few problems with RPM, such as not being able to say 'I really do have this library, don't worry about it but tell me about any others', but overall the system is good.
The thing that really annoys me about people who complain about RedHat is that they don't complain about problems like the one above -- they complain that RedHat has made it possible for anyone to run Linux.
Well, DUH!
That *is* kind of the point, you know.
Shalon Wood