Have You Known Someone that Might go on a Shooting Spree at Work, School, etc?

I worked with a guy who threw a laptop across the room. He was walked out that day. Last week we fired an employee and have given all our door sentries his photo in case he attempts to return. Unfortunately I am in the district office which has neither a sentry or a security system at the door.

 

We had a guy exit the office under tough political conditions a few months back. I was well concerned that he could be dangerous. So far, so good...

 

Unfortunately it's not as simple as "yes" or "no."

People can be weird, or angry, or easily offended, but it doesn't mean they're broken enough to go on a murderous rampage. I think the more appropriate question might be:

Do you know of a gun shop that might sell a gun to someone who has a background that should disallow them from purchasing in the first place?

I think that describes most gun shops in the USA, not because gun shop owners want to see people killed, but because they're in it to make a buck, and after all, what are the chances that a gun from YOUR shop will be used in a deadly rampage, or kill some kid on the street in a gang shooting, or be used by a teenager to commit suicide...

Or how about this question: Do you know a country that allows people to simply lie on their gun applications and takes them at their word as they prepare for the nation's deadliest gun rampage?

I can think of at least one such country. It's been reported that the SOB had a documented history of mental instability, and was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital in '05. How is it that he still went out and purchased a gun?

 

I must be getting old. I read the subject line on this post four times before I realized it didn't say "...Shopping Spree..." It reads quite differently with that change.

Tom

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(qbee42 @ Apr 23 2007, 11:42 AM) [snapback]428352[/snapback]</div>

:lol: :lol: :lol: That was great!!!

The trick is if you could shoot and get away with it, maybe cruise around and pop one at random once a month untill you get the "Serial Killer Status" before getting caught and be coming a marter in prison. Kinda like Bundy, Berkowitz, :huh:

VT shootings would best be discribed as a Spree Killing.

 

At the last company that I worked for, we were informed that the overnight package pick up guy killed some lady. It wasn't a spree, but it was very eerie for us nonetheless.

 

Yeah, when some chick got jammed out of 30 large because of a racial issue.

On another note though, I once conducted a mock assasination of a science teacher in high school with a bright orange cap gun and ski mask. Burst into his class room wearing the ski mask, fired a few times, then bolted, laughing my arse off as I ran. Thing is, it was in pure jest, dark humor yes, but there wasn't a person who actually took it seriously. Had this happened anytime after Columbine, I would have surely been dragged off by the SWAT team, and probably tossed into an asylum for testing. Of course, the fact that I kept a trunk load full of BB/CO2 guns, fireworks, and bullets, didn't help matter much... :lol:

Those were the days...!


So now, after these a-holes come along, humor as such has been effectively CENSORED. :angry:


Oh, crap, I can't BELIEVE I forgot this one:

Recently, a kid my friend used to be good friends with, drove all the way from somewhere in Louisianna (sp?), to blow his grandfather away, point blank, with a shot gun, took his dad hostage, and was ultimately "talked" down by the Statey's, and dragged off to prison. Anyway, the point is this, he was CONTINUOSLY picked on in high school by pretty much everyone. Oddly, I got along with him, simply 'cause he was a generally nice kid, who was in my Chess Club. He was actually taken out of school a few times, and simply disappeared for a few months, only to come back, unusually "cheery". We did always peg him for going nuts sometime, and blowing someone, or several people away. Turns out, his grandfather had sexually abused him, and had a long rap sheet of such. At least he took it out where it was "appropriate", and not on all the kids that picked on him.

Makes you think...

BTW, here's the link to the story...

http://www.topix.net/content/trb/423769663...689123891443928

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mystery Squid @ Apr 23 2007, 12:11 PM) [snapback]428378[/snapback]</div>

Reminds me of the school shooting here swat wasted a 6th grader with a realistic plastic 9mm airsoft gun. See this is what the fake pistol lookied like, again note this is a airsoft toy gun!


Wanna rob a bank or car jack someone..?
Look here.
http://shortyusa.com/index.html?RID=4328

 

It's probably impossible to tell who is going to go berserk. Many rage killers have been described as "perfectly normal," while lots of people you'd describe as wackos never do anything violent.

 

No, but I consider some of the posters here suspect. Thankfully, they have boards like this to blow some steam.

 

There was a person that worked at my wife's place of employment. When she had her hours reduced, she quit. They made sure to change all of the computer logins and the locks on the doors, as well as the security alarm codes. They weren't worried about her shooting up the place. They just didn't want anything stolen.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Delta Flyer @ Apr 23 2007, 10:03 AM) [snapback]428274[/snapback]</div>

i could be wrong about this but is it not interesting that the postal office and at schools - two "gun-free" zones are the locations of a lot of mass murders like last week.

the last time a nut walked down the street of a busy city and started popping people was when??

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Delta Flyer @ Apr 23 2007, 10:03 AM) [snapback]428274[/snapback]</div>

The term "going postal" has become part of the vocabularly, but I have a few friends who work for the USPS and they consider it highly derogatory. You may not want to say it in front of your mailman, or your packages marked "fragile" might get accidentally run over by the mail truck.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Apr 23 2007, 12:11 PM) [snapback]428436[/snapback]</div>

March 25, 2006.

 

I stand corrected: April 23, 2007.