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surrealist_comb

EVIL BLACK COATS!

Mar 22, 2005 13:22

Sometimes I despise the media. OK, admittedly, I've been reading the Evening Standard 'Lite' and it doesn't really count as 'the media' in any real sense. Their headline runs: "The Nazi-loving killer in a long black coat laughed and smiled as he gunned down his school friends", and in the text they say "like Weise, Columbine killers ... wore black ( Read more... )

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tomfinnie March 23 2005, 07:25:34 UTC

Hey James good to see you're still alive. You got a working mobile phone yet?

nhs_boy March 24 2005, 01:31:10 UTC

I'm quite amused by the contrasts in school shooting styles in different countries...

In Britain, it's basically Dunblane and not much else. Top marks for weapon variety, but nearly bottom for effectiveness.
In America, they tend to stick to automatics and home-made explosives: Lots of bullets, lots of woundings, few outright slayings.
In Germany there was a rather scarily focused one: Just two wounded, but something like thirteen dead to headshots, very few targets of opportunity. Clearly, a very professional psycho :-).

tomfinnie March 24 2005, 10:18:16 UTC

Dunblane wasn't effective? A single guy killed 16 kids! Granted they were 5, which means they'd only have about 2HP each, but still.

Columbine was pretty much the benchmark school shooting, for it's superb planning & array of weaponry. Unfortunately they seemed somewhat lacking in bombmaking skills, as most of their IEDs didn't go off. They'd have scored much higher if they had.

nhs_boy March 24 2005, 15:14:33 UTC

Hey, five-year-olds should be counted by the dozen - you can herd them together with a little effort!

...Although since he didn't have explosives, I suppose that'd not do much good. OK, Dunblane wasn't that bad for effectiveness. He did have an impressive medley of weapons, though.

So many people seem to forget 'petrol and a lighter'.