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DJIt was a tragedy. But let me ask you this: What if a plane holding thirty soldiers over Iraq was shot down without any survivors.
How much attention would that get with 3,300+ kids so far buried. My guess is that Paris Hilton's latest fling with a sports athlete would trump that story. We lose like 2 kids a day over there.
There is no way you can prevent any tragedy involving a "nut job". This kid was crazy. They say he signed his name with a question mark and refused to speak in class. Crazy people, whether it be Charles Whitman in Texas on top of the building or John Wayne Gacy or a former Southern California running back who turned his beloved wife into a Pez dispenser, they exist in all wakes of life.
I know there aren't any crazy on this Board (card collectors, crazy...we just overpay for old cardboard and bitch about the small numbers), but they do exist out there. It's those comic book collectors you have to look at with a shifty eye.
Indians, the Holocaust, Anything in Sudan (see "Hotel Rwanda", a jeep escaping through a road of corpses), Jim Jones, 9/11...
DJ
edited: Dave actually did research on the stats. Tx Dave.