Aram

You gotta respect his grip, if nothing else.

Give it time. I swear it's the most controversial topic since gays in the military getting married and then having abortions and using the fetus for stem cell research. And actually, what the hell was up with that guy anyway? What a jerk.

I am sooo making a post about reloading ammunition. EDIT: Oh snap I did it, and people argued with me. Nostalgia...overwhelming. Of course there's like no chance of a developer reading it, nevermind replying, therefore I weep.

Wonderful. Now every time I flip through channels, I have to go through at least 30 playing nothing but this guy's head spouting gibberish about his bull**** teenage pain in what appears to be a bad Napoleon Dynamite impersonation. Why are we giving this idiot air-time? And he killed a holocaust survivor. What the hell is he even talking about?

That was just really, really, really ****ty writing. But wait for it to become a widespread internet classic because of all the emo kids trying to get into his mind through it.

No, sorry, he was just a ****up. And apparently another net ninja too. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18183171/displ...framenumber/11/

Oldie but a goodie.

I don't know if Gorgun's just being cheeky but he's actually right. West Virginia is one of the most pro-gun areas I think we have. Even the democrats there oppose anti-gun legislation. It's also one of the few places open carry (carrying a gun in public, even without a permit, so long as its in plain sight) is perfectly legal.

The kid was old enough and he had a clean record. Though he was a foreign student, I believe legal immigrants can apply for a type of permit that lets you purchase firearms without being a citizen. The guns were obtained legally, and at the time that he boguht them, there was no reason they shouldn't have been.

Most legislation against body armor was passed as a response to that shootout in Hollywood where two guys shot it out with police for nearly an hour, taking repeated hits from pistols and shotguns without going down. Nobody died of course, but the government has a wierd way of banning things for the "safety" of police officers, even if they aren't really that big a threat to them. Really the only laws about body armor, in most states, are that you can't own it if you're a felon and if you commit a crime while wearing it your sentence gets doubled, or something like that.

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I believe they said there is no waitning period in Georgia. Pass the background check and you take the gun home right then and there. States with a "waiting period" are in the minority, and personally I think it's a stupid measure. If a guy wants to commit a crime like this, he can wait two days to do it. This kid, if I recall, had his pistol for over a week before he did this.

Well, I forgot about that second one, but I don't believe that the other three are enough that the government needs to send someone to get involved in your business.

Unfortunately, even if people were able to see that this kid was wierd, then what? So the kid is quiet, keeps to himself, and writes naughty stuff. Arrest him? Get the government involved, because the kid is wierd? Most of us on this very forum are probably wierd too, and we play violent videogames and listen to Slayer and have probably written our share of smut too. A couple of us have posted pictures of firearms and swords. Do we really want to see the government investigating us for these things? Do we want them forcing us to see shrinks and take drugs? Most often, you can't really tell if a kid is actually dangerous or just a little odd until they actually do something. After that the key is knowing how to react and how not to overeact. When you look to the nanny state to do something that ultimately solves little and restricts freedom for yourself and everyone else (ban violent games and movies and books, punish eratic behavior, turn public places into security zones, ban firearms and flammables and knives and blunt objects) you go into dangerous territory. It's not worth the little bit of security you might gain.

I noticed these too tonight while watching House. They don't make any freaking sense to me either, but I'm strangely not really that outraged by them.

Of course, the last time a school tried to take action based on something some kid wrote, half the internet exploded with outrage.

http://lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/

This may sound wierd coming from me, but maybe you should chill out a little Eddo.

Why would they send death threats to a guy who, if he really was the guy, had already commited suicide?

What I meant to say is that no realistic amount of gun control will ever make it difficult to illegally obtain and carry a handgun in America. I know its a cliche to say this, but all that gun laws will do is create more areas, like this college campus, where hundreds of people are gathered up and completely defenseless because they obey the law, and one single person with the most basic means of offense would have virtually free reign to victimize them as he pleases. As long as there are maniacs who will not give two ****s about what the laws are, heavier gun restrictions will only make innocent people in instances like this less safe, not more.

The guy had a handgun. That's it. He took it into a celebrated "gun free zone" with pisspoor security and had free reign. I don't believe that any amount of realistic gun control would have prevented this. I just don't understand the motive. I can understand that school and particularly college is stressful. Hell, it sure enough was for me. Stressful enough, at this point in the semester, that an already deranged individual could be driven over the edge. But this guy was in college, and he was paying the college to go there. Nobody was forcing him to stay there and endure that stress. He could have simply left. Why people think the way out has to be suicide is beyond me. That occasionally they think they need to take others with them is beyond ridiculous. It's just a westernized form of suicide bombing, and it serves no purpose whatsoever.

This is phenomenon that I really, really just don't understand.

What possible purpose could this have served?

I'd make an RPG with a Jagged Alliance 2 type full party turn based combat system, a Torment-esque amount of dialogue and dialogue options, NPC interaction, and non-linear gameplay. It'd also have a level of character customization that blows every RPG so far out of the water. You wouldn't just program your character's stats, but also his/her appearance, sex, age, ancestry, nationality, education, upbringing, personality, career, and history. Nothing about your character is pre-determined, not how or where you grew up, not who your parents were, not what your destined to become. You get to create a totally unique character, with a history you can program. You start by choosing your place of birth, who your parents were, what ancestry you come from (whether you're German, French, Irish, Spanish-Aztec, African, or Cablinasian is entirely up to you), what kind of social class you grow up in, what degree of education your character possesses, if he served in the military or not, if he has some kind of criminal record, and even what his/her sexual preferences are. All of these choices will have subtle effects on how the environment affects your chracter, and how NPCs will act when you speak to them. It'd be set in the 1920s or 1930s. It'd be sort of similar to CoC except it wouldn't be. There'd be a couple cameos by Lovecraftian monsters but all sorts of other stuff as well, vampires, werewolves, zombies, wendigos, whatever. There'd be no sanity system and it'd basically be more like an old timey Bureau 13. There'd basically be a heavy supernatural element but otherwise the game is set in the real world, and it will take the main character all over the world and be very accurate to history. The player character would be a student in some shady, secretive university dedicated to the supernatural, and there'd be several such universities all over the world. The player would choose his character's nationality, and if he chose American he'd start at Miskatonic University, if he chose British he'd start at Blackwood College, and so on. Over the course of the game, the palyer would visit every one of these colleges and do all the quests in each country, but the player gets to decide which one to do first. It'd play out like hard-boiled detective fiction. The player is dispatched to investigate supernatural matters and crime scenes and, if necessary, solve problems in the typical RPG way. Instead of quests, you'd have cases, which you could only take on so many at a time. With each case you solve, you earn more funding from the college, gain experience, and recruit potential characters which would have at least a Torment level of interaction. If you built your character as a booksmarts investigator, you'd want to recruit gunmen. If you built it as a gunman, you want to recruit some know-it-alls. Recruiting other characters might also mean you could access their bank-accounts. If you can get Howard Hughes to join your group, and get on his good side, you're basically set as far as money goes. Firearms would be the weapons of choice, realistic and sensible weaponry for the period. Since you'll be wandering around in public most of the time, you'll have to carry stuff you can conceal, and how much you can conceal would depend on what clothing you wear. If you're out on the street you can put on a trench coat and walk around with a sawn-off under there, but a keen-eyed NPC might still be able to spot it, getting you in trouble, and there will be times where you're in hot weather or at a social event where a long coat wouldn't be acceptable, and you'd be forced to go smaller. Machineguns and Thompsons would be available, but they'd be kept in the trunk and only brought out for special occasions. What kind of firearms you have access to would depend on what country you are in at the time, and what kind of background your character possesses. There'd be no armor in the game, or magical stat-boosting accessories, but what your player wears is a giant deal. What shoes, pants, shirt, coat, and hat your player wears is entirely up to you and your wallet. If the player wants his character to wear a bomber jacket, a trench coat, or a pea coat, a fedora, a cowboy hat, or a fez, a baggy sport coat, a Brooks Brothers suit, or a tweedy number, that's all up to them. The quality of the player's clothing would also be important. Wearing expensive clothing and expensive accessories like a gold watch will earn you respect with wealthy NPCs, but will make you look like a snob to Depression-era poor folk and make it more likely that you'll be mugged while investigating a dark alley. And that's my ridiculously long useless post of the day.

I wondered who that guy was... Sorry, I just had to be the first to the summit. My oxygen was getting pretty low too.