Just thinking outloud on the VA Tech shooting

ObamaNationYes

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Mon Apr-16-07 12:29 PM
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Just thinking outloud on the VA Tech shooting

Just last Tuesday a new movie/documentary (not sure which: I think it was a doc) on Columbine was on Television. Just wondering if this perhaps emboldened an already deranged, spring-loaded individual. I have nothing to prove this - just wondering outloud.

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YDogg

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Mon Apr-16-07 12:31 PM
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1. interesting, and perhaps so.

all just very sad.

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onehandle

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Mon Apr-16-07 12:32 PM
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2. That's the kind of things they say at Free Republic.

Edited on Mon Apr-16-07 12:33 PM by onehandle

That just talking about problems creates more.

They're wrong.

Lots of easy to get guns, lots of poor people, and a mental health crisis? Now that may be a problem.

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ObamaNationYes

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Mon Apr-16-07 12:37 PM
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5. What a silly thing to say....

I don't think that this thought or observation is a political one ... It does happen.

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Bandit

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Mon Apr-16-07 01:34 PM
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8. So you think there is no such thing as copycat crime?

:shrug:

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aikoaiko

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Mon Apr-16-07 12:33 PM
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3. Modeling is a very real psychological phenom.

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Seen the light

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Mon Apr-16-07 12:33 PM
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4. There's something about this week

Columbine anniversary is coming up, that's why the special aired in the first place.

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soothsayer

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Mon Apr-16-07 12:49 PM
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7. columbine shooting spree, J Reno's shooting spree at Waco,

OK city bombing, Hitler's bday, and we're ready to attack Iran on April 17 (tomorrow---dark of the moon)

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Bandit

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Mon Apr-16-07 01:38 PM
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9. Janet Reno's shooting spree

How many did Reno bag personally. What a ignorant thing to say. You do know that Waco was ongoing before Reno ever came to office don't you? It was the ATF that did the deed. It stems from the practice of awarding in the terms of money to those agencies involved in Rambo tactics which had nothing what so ever to do with Reno.

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ThoughtCriminal

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Mon Apr-16-07 12:44 PM
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6. I'm aware of some studies on imatative behavior

Edited on Mon Apr-16-07 12:48 PM by ThoughtCriminal

that suggest suicides can be triggered by highly publicized suicides (Phillips, 1974). Whether that applies to this kind of mass-murder, or if re-dramatizations can have the same effect, I don't know if there have been any studies on that.

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After posting, I did a couple of searches:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GWYA,GWYA:2006-05,GWYA:en&q=imitative+behavior+homicide+phillips

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