did you all hear about teh shooting in montreal yesterday? i cant believe someone would just take the lives of others with reckless abandon like that. it makes me sick.
a pile of us on my floor were on our way out for ice cream when one girl came up to us, asked if we'd heard the news, and when we said we hadn't she broke it to us. poor girl was completely losng it, she was so upset that she ended up just going to bed. we were all pretty shaken up by it. too close to home - i know people at that school!
things like this make me wonder how these kinds of people are bred in the world, and why we don't manage to stop them. the girl who was killed was 18. i'm 18, most of my friends are 18- it could just as well have been anyone. the fact that somene would actually go and do that....
ok i'll shut up now because i could rant forever about how sick this is.
My sister goes to the Cegep where it happened, she heard the gun shots and screams and everything, she spent hours sitting on the floor of a teachers office... She didn't get hurt, but now she gets scared at loud noises and doesn't like standing near windows. It's really surreal, because I've been to all the places where the people were shot. I bought drinks from the vending machine the guy stood beside when he started to shoot. It's just crazy... I don't think any of us understand why he did it, and I guess we never will... But it's really horrible.
I appreciate the sentiment, but what do you think America does everyday? And not even that far away. I hear gunshots in my neighbourhood at night. The only reason the casualties in my neighbourhood aren't reported is because it's mostly gang related. And what America does is in the news everyday, but they somehow "justify" it.
This just seems like a bigger deal, because we're used to deferring that sort of grotesquery to somewhere far away.
People die everyday. I think it's sick that the news is glorifying it, and continues to talk about it. There are more important things that a few high school kids dying. (not that that's not important, because it is, I just find the reaction to this juxtaposed oddly to the conflicts that are going on overseas and around the corner, just because it was kids.)
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things like this make me wonder how these kinds of people are bred in the world, and why we don't manage to stop them. the girl who was killed was 18. i'm 18, most of my friends are 18- it could just as well have been anyone. the fact that somene would actually go and do that....
ok i'll shut up now because i could rant forever about how sick this is.
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It's really surreal, because I've been to all the places where the people were shot. I bought drinks from the vending machine the guy stood beside when he started to shoot. It's just crazy...
I don't think any of us understand why he did it, and I guess we never will... But it's really horrible.
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And not even that far away. I hear gunshots in my neighbourhood at night.
The only reason the casualties in my neighbourhood aren't reported is because it's mostly gang related.
And what America does is in the news everyday, but they somehow "justify" it.
This just seems like a bigger deal, because we're used to deferring that sort of grotesquery to somewhere far away.
People die everyday. I think it's sick that the news is glorifying it, and continues to talk about it.
There are more important things that a few high school kids dying.
(not that that's not important, because it is, I just find the reaction to this juxtaposed oddly to the conflicts that are going on overseas and around the corner, just because it was kids.)
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