We now live in an America where we need to classify and rank the levels of our school shootings.
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't think the intent was to say 'all these shootings are the same as > Sandy Hook'. I think it may be just the opposite. Pointing out all the > other incidents on (or near) school campuses that we don't hear of (mostly > because they are NOT like Sandy Hook). > > Call me a simpleton, but in order for an incident to meet the criteria of > 'school shooting' it would need to involve a gun being discharged on (or > near, maybe) a school campus. Period. > > 'A gunman ran onto campus, was chased by police, shot student accidentally' > - Yep. School shooting > '19-year-old shot in elementary parking lot over dice game at 9 PM.' - > Yep. School shooting > 'Gang-involved student accidentally shot herself in thigh.' - Yep. School > shooting. > > I could go on, but won't. > > I think I understand the point you were trying to make, but, man, this guy > with the tweets is a class A asshole. > > If there is a hell, I am sure there is a special place for him in it. > > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:10 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > I'm happy to discuss whether or not a statistic was properly > categorized, > > > but don't you ever, ever, trivialize the death of a child. This is some > > of > > > the most nauseating crap I've ever read and I really want to see an > > > apology. > > > > > > > My take on this is that the Bloomberg group is lumping all of the > shootings > > together as the same as Sandy Hook. The point of the Blaze & twitter > items > > and the reason that I linked to them is that they are not. > > > > I wasn't trying to trivialize their deaths though I can't speak for the > > author of the tweets. > > > > And while I've been subjected to "nauseating crap" on this list in the > past > > and been berated when I said so, I'll apologize if the resources I used > to > > better define the digits offended you. > > > > Until Later! > > C. Hatton Humphrey > > http://www.eastcoastconservative.com > > > > Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do > some > > smelting to find it. > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:370828 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
