Am I a sociopath?

[Geek]

So I am guessing you missed the three or four posts where I used the term Emotional investment. I don't care how old my child is, if they are murdered or come to harm in anyway I'll be very upset. Now if someone elese child gets killed at 18 oh well, what can I do about that?

We can not prevent what we can not predict. We can now predict a gunman coming into a classroom. The death of other people's children can help you prevent the same happening to your child. You don't need tears to show empathy. Teach your child how to protect themselves, write your congress people about arming teachers, check out the saftey features of your child's school. Demand security cameras and locked doors. Use this and other incidents to help change the situation we all put our kids into. They are fish in a barrel right now. The kids are bait for these broken members of society. We have to make it harder to kill our kids. It is way too easy.

 

[Thor]

We can not prevent what we can not predict. We can now predict a gunman coming into a classroom.

Bullsh#t, if someone is determined to cause you harm they are going to find a way to do it. If we could predict every time some was going to go off the deep end there would be no crime in the world. Please don't delude yourself, it is possible to make and environment safer but no environment will ever be completely safe.

The death of other people's children can help you prevent the same happening to your child.

Oh I agree, if the killing of these folks will help keep my kids safe then great.

 

[Geek]

Bullsh#t, if someone is determined to cause you harm they are going to find a way to do it. If we could predict every time some was going to go off the deep end there would be no crime in the world. Please don't delude yourself, it is possible to make and environment safer but no environment will ever be completely safe.



Oh I agree, if the killing of these folks will help keep my kids safe then great.

This is a put on. You don't really feel this way. I thought you were honestly looking for answers. You are not. You just want to say stuff to piss people off.

 

[Thor]

This is a put on. You don't really feel this way.

Wait I think you misunderstand. I am not saying it was great that they were killed. I am saying that if their deaths can be used to keep my family safe then in then end some good did come out of it.

 

[mv_princess]

How are we going to know a kid is going to walk into a classroom and start shooting?

 

[Geek]

How are we going to know a kid is going to walk into a classroom and start shooting?

You can assume it will happen in every classroom and plan accordingly.

 

[vraiblonde]

When your child turns 18, is ok with you if they are murdered in their college classroom?

OMG!!!

What is wrong with you? Just because he doesn't give a huge crap about strangers doesn't mean he doesn't care about his own children, family and friends.

Snap out of it.

 

[remaxrealtor]

3,000 adults were killed on 9-11. I didn't know any of them. Should I not care? :shrug:

Are you comparing the agenda of Cho to that of Bin Laden?

 

[Thor]

How are we going to know a kid is going to walk into a classroom and start shooting?

You can never fully know, that's the point. It's a damn shame the school stopped even licensed CCW permit holders from bringing their firearms on campus. If they had followed the US constitution this might have turned out a lot different.

 

[vraiblonde]

You can assume it will happen in every classroom and plan accordingly.

Yeah, because it just happens every day.

Do you fly on a plane or drive in a car? You can get killed that way, ya know.

 

[nachomama]

I believe I said when I saw it going down I was concerned, but after the fact and everyone is dead what good are my tears going to do?

So I am guessing you missed the three or four posts where I used the term Emotional investment. I don't care how old my child is, if they are murdered or come to harm in anyway I'll be very upset. Now if someone elese child gets killed at 18 oh well, what can I do about that?

I guess you could do the same thing for someone else's kid that you could do for yours...Nothing. What good are your tears going to do if it's your child? Nothing.

Your initial post and several others that you have posted here irritate the pizz out of me. It's not just the fact these kids died; who cares that we didn't know them. It's what the kids and families left behind are dealing with. You think about all the devastation kids in this generation have been through - Columbine, 9-11, Antrax scares, the sniper shootings, the war, Katrina, the Amish shootings and now this. We didn't have all of that crap when we were growing up, and if we did, it wasn't sensationalized all over tv like it is now. Then you have the personal losses - loss of friends and family. Chopticon alone has lost about 7 kids in the last 4 years to car accidents and 1 to cancer. My kids dealt with the loss of a 12 year old classmate and close family friend 2 years ago to leukemia.

I have two people in my circle of friends who were directly impacted by the events at Va Tech on Monday. They both lost friends and are trying to make sense of what happened. These kids woke up Monday morning and went about their daily routine, thinking it would be as every other Monday morning has been. By lunchtime, their lives were forever changed. I have a niece who is to start school there in the fall; now she is unsure if she wants to go that route.

While I don't expect you to send flowers or sympathy cards to every single person who has tragedy hit them, a little bit of empathy would be nice. Heck, you could even look at your own life and realize how lucky you are that it didn't happen to you.

 

[mv_princess]

You can assume it will happen in every classroom and plan accordingly.

So should I wear plated armor to work everyday? Because you never know?

You can't put people in a bubble things are going to happen. Sad but very true fact

 

[Geek]

Wait I think you misunderstand. I am not saying it was great that they were killed. I am saying that if their deaths can be used to keep my family safe then in then end some good did come out of it.

You need to take some responsibility in keeping your kids safe. That is how what happened in VA Tech affects all of us. We need to learn from it and demand and help schools get what they need to make it hareder to kill kids in their classrooms.

 

[mv_princess]

Yeah, because it just happens every day.

Do you fly on a plane or drive in a car? You can get killed that way, ya know.

We should start wearing bubble wrap. It's the only way

 

[vraiblonde]

This is a put on. You don't really feel this way. I thought you were honestly looking for answers. You are not. You just want to say stuff to piss people off.

And I think you say stuff like that just to piss people off.

 

[Thor]

You need to take some responsibility in keeping your kids safe.

LMAO damn aint we presumptuous. You don't know me, you don't know what I do to keep my family safe. Don't make assumptions.

 

[Geek]

So should I wear plated armor to work everyday? Because you never know?

You can't put people in a bubble things are going to happen. Sad but very true fact

No, but we can make our schools tougher targets and plan for internal attacks. Think of all the planning that goes into protecting money and expensive products. Aren't children worth more attention and protection. To get into a mansion there is a gate with an intercom. To get into a school you open the door.

 

[vraiblonde]

No, but we can make our schools tougher targets and plan for internal attacks. Think of all the planning that goes into protecting money and expensive products. Aren't children worth more attention and protection. To get into a mansion there is a gate with an intercom. To get into a school you open the door.

Have you ever considered living in China?

Just a thought.

 

[Geek]

Have you ever considered living in China?

Just a thought.

You don't think that schools need to have better saftey procedures?

 

[vraiblonde]

We should start wearing bubble wrap. It's the only way

Bubble wrap won't stop a bullet. You could make body armor mandatory, but then the bad guys will just resort to bombs. Or poisoning our food. Or our air.

Maybe we could all have steel body capsules that we wear at all times, with SCuBA and take vitamin shots for nourishment. Bet we'd be safe then.