Hey guys sorry I haven't posted in a while, about 3 weeks ago I found out my uncle died so we're still trying to get there in time for the memorial. Y'know this "incident" just reminds me that life is just to short, love the people you can while you can because tomorrow they could be gone, life is too short for hate and grudges (if only I had taken my own advise 5 years ago) it might be to late for me but its not too late for you. I'm constantly seeing people who are in genuine need of someone to care and what does everyone else do? They bitch about how wimpy or emo that person is and how they should "Drink bleach and Die" and what happens? You get teen suicide cases like Amanda Todd, Megan Meier, Audrie Pott and some others but I can't remember the names but these are the people who just took their blows, rolled with it, went along. But then there are others (quoted this from SFGate:
Aug. 1, 1966: Charles Whitman, 25, a college student and former Marine, killed his wife and mother before carrying a rifle to the tower on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin, where in a 96-minute rampage he fatally shot 14 others before police shot and killed him.
May 4, 1970: National Guard troops on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio shot and killed four unarmed students protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. The shootings prompted a nationwide student strike and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War.
July 12, 1976: Edward Charles Allaway, 37, a custodian at California State University Fullerton, bought a semi-automatic rifle at a Kmart. He took the gun on campus and killed seven people in the library. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a state mental hospital.
Jan. 29, 1979: Brenda Ann Spencer, 16, fired several rifle shots at a San Diego elementary school from her home across the street, killing the principal and a custodian and wounding eight children. She later said she fired the shots because "I don't like Mondays," which inspired the Boomtown Rats song by the same name. She was convicted and sentenced to 25 years to life. She has been denied parole four times.
Jan. 17, 1989: Patrick Edward Purdy, a 24-year-old drifter, walked into a Stockton schoolyard and opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle, killing five children and wounding one teacher and 29 other children. He killed himself. The case drew national attention and led to a ban on assault weapons in California.
Nov. 1, 1991: Gang Lu, 27, a University of Iowa graduate student from China, used a .38-caliber revolver to kill four members of his department, another university employee and himself. He reportedly was angry because his doctoral dissertation was not nominated for an academic award.
May 1, 1992: Eric Houston, 20, a former student at Lindhurst High School in Olivehurst (Yuba County), returned to the school with a 12-gauge shotgun and a rifle. He killed three students and a teacher and wounded 10 others before surrendering to police. He was sentenced to death and is on Death Row at San Quentin State Prison.
March 24, 1998: Mitchell Johnson, 10, and Andrew Golden, 8, took seven guns to a school near Jonesboro, Ark., where they pulled a fire alarm and began shooting as everyone exited the school, killing four students and one teacher and injuring nine others. They were released from a juvenile detention center in 2005.
May 21,1998: Kipland Kinkel, 15, shot and killed his parents after being suspended from his Springfield, Ore., high school for bringing a gun on campus. He returned to the school the next morning, killing two students and wounding 22 others. He was sentenced to 111 years in prison without the possibility of parole.
April 20, 1999: Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, walked into Columbine High School in Colorado and in a rampage of gunfire and homemade bombs killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves. The massacre led to an increased emphasis on security at U.S. schools.
Oct. 28, 2002: Robert Flores, 40, a nursing student at the University of Arizona, shot and killed an instructor in her office on campus and then entered a classroom where he killed two more teachers before committing suicide.
March 21, 2005: Jeffrey Weise, 17, went on a shooting spree at Red Lake High School on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota. He killed nine people, including his grandfather, and wounded five others before killing himself.
Oct. 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, a milk-truck driver, killed five girls ages 7 to 13 execution-style, then turned the gun on himself, in a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa. Five other girls were critically injured. The community focused on forgiveness and reconciliation after the shootings.
April 16, 2007: Seung-Hui Cho, 23, a student at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va., shot and killed 32 people in attacks two hours apart in two campus buildings. Cho, who was diagnosed with mental illness, killed himself. The university was found negligent for not alerting the campus after the first round of shootings.
Feb. 27: T.J. Lane, 17, took a 22-caliber pistol and a knife to a high school in Chardon, Ohio, and fired 10 shots at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table before school, authorities said. Three students died. Lane was arrested outside the school.
April 2: One L. Goh, 43, a former nursing student at private Oikos University near the Oakland International Airport, sprayed gunfire on a classroom there Monday, killing seven people in one of the deadliest attacks ever on a California campus, according to police. He was arrested an hour later at a store in Alameda.
These are the people who stood up (in some cases a bit too well) and fought back may be in not the right way but still in a way that woke up america (at least for a week or two) to the people who are either bullied into picking up that gun and killing or are so disturbed this is the only way to make the demons go away.
Aug. 1, 1966: Charles Whitman, 25, a college student and former Marine, killed his wife and mother before carrying a rifle to the tower on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin, where in a 96-minute rampage he fatally shot 14 others before police shot and killed him.
May 4, 1970: National Guard troops on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio shot and killed four unarmed students protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. The shootings prompted a nationwide student strike and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War.
July 12, 1976: Edward Charles Allaway, 37, a custodian at California State University Fullerton, bought a semi-automatic rifle at a Kmart. He took the gun on campus and killed seven people in the library. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a state mental hospital.
Jan. 29, 1979: Brenda Ann Spencer, 16, fired several rifle shots at a San Diego elementary school from her home across the street, killing the principal and a custodian and wounding eight children. She later said she fired the shots because "I don't like Mondays," which inspired the Boomtown Rats song by the same name. She was convicted and sentenced to 25 years to life. She has been denied parole four times.
Jan. 17, 1989: Patrick Edward Purdy, a 24-year-old drifter, walked into a Stockton schoolyard and opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle, killing five children and wounding one teacher and 29 other children. He killed himself. The case drew national attention and led to a ban on assault weapons in California.
Nov. 1, 1991: Gang Lu, 27, a University of Iowa graduate student from China, used a .38-caliber revolver to kill four members of his department, another university employee and himself. He reportedly was angry because his doctoral dissertation was not nominated for an academic award.
May 1, 1992: Eric Houston, 20, a former student at Lindhurst High School in Olivehurst (Yuba County), returned to the school with a 12-gauge shotgun and a rifle. He killed three students and a teacher and wounded 10 others before surrendering to police. He was sentenced to death and is on Death Row at San Quentin State Prison.
March 24, 1998: Mitchell Johnson, 10, and Andrew Golden, 8, took seven guns to a school near Jonesboro, Ark., where they pulled a fire alarm and began shooting as everyone exited the school, killing four students and one teacher and injuring nine others. They were released from a juvenile detention center in 2005.
May 21,1998: Kipland Kinkel, 15, shot and killed his parents after being suspended from his Springfield, Ore., high school for bringing a gun on campus. He returned to the school the next morning, killing two students and wounding 22 others. He was sentenced to 111 years in prison without the possibility of parole.
April 20, 1999: Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, walked into Columbine High School in Colorado and in a rampage of gunfire and homemade bombs killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves. The massacre led to an increased emphasis on security at U.S. schools.
Oct. 28, 2002: Robert Flores, 40, a nursing student at the University of Arizona, shot and killed an instructor in her office on campus and then entered a classroom where he killed two more teachers before committing suicide.
March 21, 2005: Jeffrey Weise, 17, went on a shooting spree at Red Lake High School on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota. He killed nine people, including his grandfather, and wounded five others before killing himself.
Oct. 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, a milk-truck driver, killed five girls ages 7 to 13 execution-style, then turned the gun on himself, in a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa. Five other girls were critically injured. The community focused on forgiveness and reconciliation after the shootings.
April 16, 2007: Seung-Hui Cho, 23, a student at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va., shot and killed 32 people in attacks two hours apart in two campus buildings. Cho, who was diagnosed with mental illness, killed himself. The university was found negligent for not alerting the campus after the first round of shootings.
Feb. 27: T.J. Lane, 17, took a 22-caliber pistol and a knife to a high school in Chardon, Ohio, and fired 10 shots at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table before school, authorities said. Three students died. Lane was arrested outside the school.
April 2: One L. Goh, 43, a former nursing student at private Oikos University near the Oakland International Airport, sprayed gunfire on a classroom there Monday, killing seven people in one of the deadliest attacks ever on a California campus, according to police. He was arrested an hour later at a store in Alameda.
These are the people who stood up (in some cases a bit too well) and fought back may be in not the right way but still in a way that woke up america (at least for a week or two) to the people who are either bullied into picking up that gun and killing or are so disturbed this is the only way to make the demons go away.