MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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'Bored' Teens Kill Aussie Jogger in Oklahoma
By NCD on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 10:30am |A college baseball player jogging on the streets of Oklahoma was shot to death by three teenagers, one of whom told police they were “bored and didn’t have anything to do, so we decided to kill somebody,” authorities said....
Another tragedy caused by the widespread presence in America of guns, psychopaths, idiots and fools.
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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/20/20102447-bored-teenagers-gun-down-college-ballplayer-oklahoma-cops-say?lite
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All those guns gotta be used for something.
by Orion on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 11:02am
Oh Jesus, all three of them were black. Wait for it.
by Orion on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 11:49am
George Zimmerman just retroactively amended his defense to "Trayvon was bored."
by Michael Maiello on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 12:01pm
Jesus....I really think stuff like this is the reason why literally 100,000 have signed up to travel to Mars. It is a much more appealing environment than here.
by Orion on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 12:04pm
Yeah so apparently there was also a school shooting today and a celebrity committed suicide. Sigh.
by Orion on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 1:59pm
Story for ya on that, Orion:
Georgia school shooting suspect: ‘Sorry, I’m off my meds’
I know, I know, you're going to say it was withdrawal syndrome....
P.S. There's a load of detailed coverage on the incident @ The Lede.
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/21/2013 - 6:25pm
I don't know much about this individual in particular but I have had people I know from various backgrounds who have told me about suddenly thinking about nothing but murder and violence when on/coming off SSRIs. The spectrum of diversity of experience of people on these meds is so wide that you can't really dismiss the common denominator.
by Orion on Thu, 08/22/2013 - 5:45pm
There's more on him here:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/parents-wait-worry-after-ga-school-shooting
It's interesting that his rage or whatever that caused him to plot action seemed to dissipate rather quickly and easily. Sounds mostly to me like it was an intention of "suicide by cop."
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/22/2013 - 7:00pm
Yes, shit hits fan. Story's got it all: race, guns, baseball, Adonis-like foreign victim, There's also already calls for Australian tourism boycott of U.S., reports of the accused being in a gang....
They are minors and they confessed. Without lawyers? If so, oh goodie (not), that means we are now about to learn all about the pathologies of Duncan, Oklahoma.
You might think this is all new stuff, Orion, but I immediately think: wilding in Central Park. But now new and improved with Oklahoma guns.
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 2:02pm
It's very possible that I'd been living in a personal fantasy world for years before but there was nowhere near this sort of daily tragedy occurrance a couple years ago. The response to the Columbine massacre was shock at what had happened - the response to that happening now would be very different.
Before social media, there was also a lid on how much we saw of the world and illusions could be better maintained.
by Orion on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 2:32pm
llusions could be better maintained.
Everyone with an internet connection is an urbanite now. Those illusions were only maintained in rural areas and suburbia. They weren't maintained in NYC of the late 70's and early 80's where you really did risk getting mugged taking the subway, nor in the NYC of the 19th century, nor in ancient Rome for that matter. Everyone in urban areas without sufficient rule of law knows of daily tragedy. (And even with decent rule of law, naturally occurring tragedy is always close by, just because lots of other people are close by.)
Here's the thing: suburbia and rural places sell their own brand of unhappiness, less violent to the body, maybe, but also maybe just as disturbing to many brains if not more so. Leave it to Beaver was a fictional TV show, so was The Waltons. See Betty Friedan.
And also, the planet cannot continue with the sprawl of every nuclear family on it having a suburban-single-family home and plot of land to go with it, even if some people out there still believe the myth that it's a great way to raise children.
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 2:43pm
No one had a Bushmaster rifle or an AR-15 in Ancient Rome.
I have never personally been mugged - I have been pressed for money but that is very different. Such events would suck but they'd be a whole lot less scary if people weren't walking around with the weapons of the Mujahideen. An Adam Lanza wouldn't be possible 500 years ago, no matter how demented the individual.
by Orion on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 2:50pm
Lane was shot with a 22-caliber revolver. And it's handguns that kill the most innocents in this country. You have drone syndrome about large automatic weapons. You can't hide those that easy. They get used in a few high profile crimes like school shootings and in the movies about drug dealers, but aren't really the source of the gun death problem. The real massacre that is going on day after day in this country is with handguns (accidents, crimes of passion, gang wars, robberies, muggings, etc.) Because you can hide them in your pocket or bedside drawer and kill anytime. Hence the controversy about "stop and frisk."
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 3:09pm
Drone syndrome?
by Orion on Wed, 08/21/2013 - 12:09am
Sad. We have gone from Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner to these guys. Both events occurred in August. Society is failing our children. We close schools and send jobs overseas. We have no funds for summer programs. These "bored" teens took a life and in the process lost theirs.
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 08/21/2013 - 8:39am
The bright side to all this is that this level of media coverage and near daily massacres will mean the Second Amendment will be history in the near future.
by Orion on Wed, 08/21/2013 - 10:07am
Here's the Chief Keef lyrics - I Don't Like, sounds like pretty hard core gang/gansta stuff.
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/22/2013 - 11:04pm