When I heard a US army officer tell a class of 16yr old school kids that killing viet cong was the right thing to do because they were just 'gooks', I cried my eyes out.
I REALLY do despise the royal family.
I really do despise the unacceptable face of capitalism.
(just in case anybody thought I was kidding)
I think these were all secrets that we feel a bit guilty about. Don't we all sometimes watch the news and feel that it isn't 'really happening'?
I'm sorry to have upset Gary, I should have remembered that he has strong feelings about Columbine. None of us are making fun of it or making light of it, we're saying that there is a part of many human beings that could go that way in the right combination of events. I've certainly been to school with people who I'd have been very scared of if they'd had access to firearms.
It isn't monsters who do these things, just people a bit like us only for some reason the brakes that say "I couldn't hurt other people, just because I feel awful" in us don't work for them on that particular day.
Perhaps having a society where so many people own firearms and where schools are based around popularity and sporting excellence rather than educational attainment doesn't help. Or then again, perhaps people just go nuts from time to time.
Elephant was truly chilling and exquisitely shot (no pun intended, really). It certainly didn't make me wish they'd killed more.
And I'm keeping my dark secrets locked away in a jar on the top of my wardrobe, not for here thanks!!
I don't wish they had shot more people, I just wondered why they didn't. And if a society allows young men barely more than boys to have guns this will happen again.
I have an invisible, secret lover who seems to visit me between 4 - 6PM.
I don't know who it is but I hope it's female (nervous smile).
Obviously it pays to advertise (stronger smile).
Well, I spent the past two hours reliving something I've been trying to put out of my head for 6 years. Not your folks fault...it's my problem.
Knowing the emotions one goes through when pulling a trigger, I'm surprised they got as many as they did.
My secret is that I wish these were still here.
And my other wish is that these can put it out of their heads.
These are my friends and neighbors. If anyone thinks "it serves them bloody right", come on out and I'll splain it to you in person.
Dave, he was an exceptionally good man.
Love ya Dave.
I don't think anyone thinks it serves them right. It was a tragedy of monumental proportions... another tragedy is, that it keeps on happeing. Here too, it's not just an American thing. We got Hungerford and the Dunblane massacre, Germany had the Gutenberg school shooting. I dont think gun law changing to stop young boys having access to guns would ever solve this, sadly. If they are as haunted and angry and deranged as they must be to go out and inflict such terrible mass murder, then they would get access to the means, easily.
I don't know what the answer is.
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