pym
Reservist Avenger
"About 20 yards to my right…"
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Post by pym on Jul 20, 2012 20:14:31 GMT -5
As a mere squire here...I am not sure of my place.
Something needs to be said as to today's event...........No?
My apologies.
It is just that I am saddened on many levels.
What do we say?
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Post by woodside on Jul 21, 2012 9:22:44 GMT -5
I don't know if there's anything to say. It's a senseless tragedy carried out by a twisted person. I just keep thinking "all they wanted was to see a movie." It's a very dark day and it's weighed heavily on my mind since hearing about it.
That being said, please don't equate a lack of comment here as apathy. This forum is a little quiet anyways.
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Post by humanbelly on Jul 22, 2012 9:48:37 GMT -5
In another forum I speculated that there might be a reflexive lash-out on both gun-control issues and violence-in-entertainment-media issues. . . and that certainly seems to be proving true for both sides of both issues. But it seems like a societal level of blame is kind of hard to afix in a situation where one twisted, intelligent, malevolant individual with no prior reasonably-detectable warning signs loses his grip on reality and unleashes his rage on the innocents around him. Surely individuals like this have existed throughout history-- Jack the Ripper, for instance-- but there wasn't a level of weapons technology available to make their crimes' death-tolls so high, perhaps? Nor was there the instant world-wide media capability that enables these modern atrocities to hold immediate world-wide attention.
This guy clearly had a Batman fixation. Wasn't John Hinckley inspired by Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver? There was a student awhile back who committed a copycat crime from Stephen King's "Apt Pupil"---
Assuming this evil illness existed long before cinema, one has to wonder what tended to serve as the inspiration for the delusions prior to that. Historical figures? Literature? The Bible, perhaps? National/ethnic/cultural identity, certainly.
God, it's so awful even to dwell on it.
HB
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Post by sharkar on Jul 23, 2012 9:40:12 GMT -5
It's terrible and sickening. I don't know what else to say--and I know this is inadequate--other than to offer my prayers and condolences to the victims and their families.
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Post by spiderwasp on Jul 24, 2012 21:07:12 GMT -5
I was in Orlando when this happened. We were coming out of Animal Kingdom when we noticed the flag flying at half-mast and asked a security guy why. I just got home and was able to read about the details for the first time. I shed tears as I read about each of the victims. They were people just like all of us who simply went to a movie. Moments before this happened they were filled with the same eager anticipation we comic/movie lovers know so well. My heart goes out to them and to their families and Pym, I think it's very appropriate that, on a forum like this, we take the time to recognize a tragedy like this.
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