Reported: 10 Killed in US Batman Premiere

Johnnytoxic · 20 Jul 2012 at 12:30

Twitter / Facebook / 24 Hour News stations / The exposure of that Breivik guy create instant Infamy. It's horrible to say but it probably makes this exposure we have now more appealing for the nut jobs to carry out these crimes.

Events like this should be banned from major TV news broadcasters and kept to the local city. News blackout on these things.

Does anyone have that youtube video where a TV news guy asks a Psychologist what can cause people to do this and he basically says the Media is partly to blame for having none stop coverage of the crimes.

Shayper · 20 Jul 2012 at 12:32

Johnnytoxic said:
Twitter / Facebook / 24 Hour News stations / The exposure of that Breivik guy create instant Infamy. It's horrible to say but it probably makes this exposure we have now more appealing for the nut jobs to carry out these crimes.

Events like this should be banned from major TV news broadcasters and kept to the local city. News blackout on these things.

Does anyone have that youtube video where a TV news guy asks a Psychologist what can cause people to do this and he basically says the Media is partly to blame for having none stop coverage of the crimes.

Don't be stupid. The public have a right to know about these things. What if one of the relatives of one of these poor people doesn't find out because of a news blackout?

nemtizz · 20 Jul 2012 at 12:35

Headshot in a dark room full of people panicking and trying to gtfo. Doesn't sound very feasible.

Johnnytoxic · 20 Jul 2012 at 12:36

Shayper said:
Don't be stupid. The public have a right to know about these things. What if one of the relatives of one of these poor people doesn't find out because of a news blackout?

Can't be a close enough relative if your finding out via a 24hour news channel?

These school shootings we hear more of and massacres. Was it as common place say back in the 70's and 80's?

I agree with this guy.

Nexus · 20 Jul 2012 at 12:36

Shayper said:
Making light of sad things is the british way of dealing with them. I'm horrified by this, I'm not trying to make a cheap joke, I'm just trying to counterbalance the horror of it.

It might be the 'British Way' to make light of things when we get stuck in queues, or rain ruins our summer. People being murdered by a gunman is hardly an event that is deserving of that same treatment or jokes, especially so soon after happening. It's just crass and the kind of thing said by people who think they are being clever.

Kutter · 20 Jul 2012 at 12:37

C.R.A.Z.Y said:
He was wearing a bullet proof jacket, ohhhh wait a headshot

its very easy to die from being shot in the legs. a bullet proof vest doesnt make you invulnerable to bullets

nemtizz · 20 Jul 2012 at 12:48

doofski said:
its very easy to die from being shot in the legs. a bullet proof vest doesnt make you invulnerable to bullets

estebanrey · 20 Jul 2012 at 12:52

Nexus said:
Tragic murders and a thread about it starts attracting trolls and those wishing to make a cheap joke. Says a lot about the posters.

Have you ever considered it might be some people's way of dealing with grief. I watched this programme once about the guys who have to go along and clean up the mess from people who throw themselves in front of trains and they only way they could cope with it was to joke about it.

Shayper · 20 Jul 2012 at 12:53

Nexus said:
It might be the 'British Way' to make light of things when we get stuck in queues, or rain ruins our summer. People being murdered by a gunman is hardly an event that is deserving of that same treatment or jokes, especially so soon after happening. It's just crass and the kind of thing said by people who think they are being clever.

I don't think I'm being clever. I just think there needs to be more happiness in this world...

Robbo · 20 Jul 2012 at 12:55

doofski said:
its very easy to die from being shot in the legs. a bullet proof vest doesnt make you invulnerable to bullets

The first firearms and combat expert has arrived.

Anyone else?

Musty Pie · 20 Jul 2012 at 12:57

Shayper said:
I don't think I'm being clever. I just think there needs to be more happiness in this world...

Happiness off the back of this kind of event though.

I am all for keeping things cheerful but there is always a time and a place and this is not it.

NeilF · 20 Jul 2012 at 12:59

doofer said:
Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

Yerp... But boy do they make it quicker, cleaner and easier!

Horrible thing here is out of those 50+ casualties, there will most likely be people who will now have to live with life long disfigurements and handicaps. Horrible!

cm1179 · 20 Jul 2012 at 13:05

youngest victim 6 years old?

Moothead2 · 20 Jul 2012 at 13:05

Robbo said:
The first firearms and combat expert has arrived.

Anyone else?

I don't understand the point of this post :confused:

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Westyfield2 · 20 Jul 2012 at 13:06

Terrible news

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Robbo · 20 Jul 2012 at 13:09

Moothead2 said:
I don't understand the point of this post .

Because there's normally a discussion in these sorts of threads with people talking as if they're gun/combat experts, calling on their Call of Duty experience.

asim18 · 20 Jul 2012 at 13:11

Robbo said:
Because there's normally a discussion in these sorts of threads with people talking as if they're gun/combat experts, calling on their Call of Duty experience.

But you can die from being shot in the legs, he stated a basic fact, doesn't take an expert to know that :confused:

I'm confused.

Veco · 20 Jul 2012 at 13:11

ad said:
Why would you take a 3 month old baby to the cinema?

Expanding on that. Why would you take your 3 month old to the cinema at MIDNIGHT.

Doco · 20 Jul 2012 at 13:12

Like a few people here when I first read it i thought (or more wished) that it was a hoax, seriously - some people are just so ****** up, gunning down children like, unbelievable

cheets64 · 20 Jul 2012 at 13:13

ad said:
Why would you take a 3 month old baby to the cinema?

and at midnight

Some parents are idiots.