Comments | paraxeni: Shit.

paraxeni

Shit.

Jun 02, 2010 18:58

A man, Derrick Bird, has gone on a killing spree in Cumbria, killed 12 people and shot 25 others.

I feel ill, shocked and sad. Not only because I've spent a lot of time in that area (frequent holiday destination as a kid) but because my community has a similar make-up - semi-rural, high unemployment, poverty and depression, and a lot of shotgun ( Read more... )

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madwitch June 2 2010, 18:20:23 UTC

12? Shit. It was "more than 5" when I left work, bloody hell.

paraxeni June 2 2010, 20:29:25 UTC

I know, I originally saw "shot a cyclist dead" and then popped onto reddit for a while, and there it was. It's a tragic state of affairs when someone feels that's the only choice they have left, for whatever reason.

I remember Hungerford, I remember Dunblane, and it's always some quiet guy from a rural area who just snaps, and starts firing almost at random, they all seem to follow the same narrative, it's almost spooky.

glitterybabe June 2 2010, 20:37:12 UTC

It certainly brings back Dunblane for me, being only 50 miles away so i know sort of how you feel.

paraxeni June 2 2010, 21:03:32 UTC

I remember I'd skived off college the day of Dunblane, and was at my friend's house. We honestly thought it was a joke when we saw it, because at 17 we couldn't envisage someone actually doing that.

I can only hope that certain tabloid publications don't do to today's community of victims what they did to those in Dunblane, using it as a disgusting excuse for sensationalist muckraking.

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theo_harrison June 2 2010, 18:39:42 UTC

I've just seen that on the news. :(

paraxeni June 2 2010, 20:30:54 UTC

I couldn't bring myself to watch the news, because even the Beeb webpage on it made me cry, it was just instinctive revulsion and horror. Mother Toad said the tv footage was heartbreaking so I thought it best not to watch.

theo_harrison June 3 2010, 21:00:33 UTC

It was pretty bad.

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paraxeni June 2 2010, 20:59:51 UTC

It's a terrible thing, like I said to Maddy above, that anyone feels that's their only recourse left. He was obviously broken by something, and I think if someone has been depersonalised by some awful event, or by the system, that they shut off and stop viewing everyone else as humans too.

It's lose/lose isn't it, really?

More info on him here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/10216923.stm

I wonder if we'll ever know what was going on.