Arming teachers may be a viable short term plan. But the long term plan should be to aggresively prevent individuals from getting to that state of mind. This guy did not get up this morning and decide to take out 32 people along with himself. This has been perculating for a while inside his head. We can no longer allow people to fall through the cracks, there is too heavy of a price to pay for ignoring it and pretending they do not exist. They have a nasty habit of re-appearing and long after anything can be done to prevent it.
Posts by BrentR
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47Have we Forgotten?
by purplesofa inhttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266371,00.html.
major u.s. school shootings in the last 10 years:.
greenville, texas.
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BREAKING NEWS...VA TECH SHOOTING!
by SWALKER inmsnbc is reporting at least 20 dead and 27 hurt!
i just can't understand why this keeps happening!.
swalker.
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BrentR
The United States has over 20,000 gun laws, is there one in particular that you would like us to modify?
There are no easy answers, if there were this would have stopped a long time ago. We do have armed pilots on comercial airliners and there have been no hijackings since that program was implemented. Maybe the teachers should be allowed to go the same firearms classes the pilots went to. There is something about knowing that you are going to be fired back at that has some tactical qualities.
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BREAKING NEWS...VA TECH SHOOTING!
by SWALKER inmsnbc is reporting at least 20 dead and 27 hurt!
i just can't understand why this keeps happening!.
swalker.
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BrentR
The US has allready outlawed murder so why are murders still hapening? Maybe because criminals by thier very definition do not abide by laws. You can make all the restrictive gun laws you want and criminals will ignore them.
This is a mental health care problem and no one is able to see the trees from the forest.
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Have we Forgotten?
by purplesofa inhttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266371,00.html.
major u.s. school shootings in the last 10 years:.
greenville, texas.
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BrentR
When men experience clinical depression they withdrawl from friends and people avoid them. The become jerks, assh$#@S etc and nobody wants to be around them. Consequently nobody is keeping tabs on them and when they start getting worse few if any know or care. That is until they take thier life and possibly a few others to.
In a few days the news media will find out where he lived and interview his neighbors. They will say that he was a quiet person that pretty much kept to himself and never caused any problems. Then they will find out he had a long history of mental illness that none of his friends or family even knew about. That is because we don't generally talk about it due to the stigmas involved. The ones that do talk about it end up developing a support network and find others that are dealing with it also. This lays the groundwork for healing by not having to do it alone.
Depression is too big for anyone to deal with alone.
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Have we Forgotten?
by purplesofa inhttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266371,00.html.
major u.s. school shootings in the last 10 years:.
greenville, texas.
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BrentR
The united states must start doing a much better job at taking care of and intervening in male mental health care. There are no easy answers how to do it but if something doesn't change this will continue to happen and that horrible list will only grow. It will grow and sooner or little one of us or our family members will end up on one.
We see ads in all forms of media about how to keep our bodies healthy but very little about how to keep our minds and emotions healthy. Suicide is the eighth leading cause of death in males in the US. Something is very broken and needs to be fixed. Suicide is bad enough but all too often the individual snaps so bad that they feel the need to take others with them.
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When is the Special Talk?
by tinker inmy son invited me but i lost the email.
he is giving the talk...yikes!.
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BrentR
It could be that one of the GB was up mountain climbing and some bush caught on fire and started talking to him. Then lightning struck some of the rocks and two new tablets appeared. So now they have tell everyone about some new light crap.
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Any of you guys into cooking?
by zagor ini have to admit, for many years i hated it.
before i got married i used to do lots of my own cooking and enjoy artistry of it.
heck, i'm not saying i was an expert at it but the important thing was i loved it.. but then things hit the fan and for years after, particularly because being on my own now, i would find any and every excuse in the cookbook not to do it lol.
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BrentR
I am a big fan of keeping it simple and keeping the mess to a minimum. Along with BBQing I do alot of smoke curing/cold smoking. I work less then five minutes from a fresh seafood distributor that has king salmon. When I get time I make 20-30 lbs of lox in my smoke house. One of my favorite simple dinners is cucumber, tomatoe and lox sandwiches. You can use either black russian rye or pumpernickel bread. Smear the bread with some spreadable cream cheese, sliced cukes, tomatoes and lox. Sprinkle some dill on it and you're in business.
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BrentR
If you only pull it up a little then your just being a tease.
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Any of you guys into cooking?
by zagor ini have to admit, for many years i hated it.
before i got married i used to do lots of my own cooking and enjoy artistry of it.
heck, i'm not saying i was an expert at it but the important thing was i loved it.. but then things hit the fan and for years after, particularly because being on my own now, i would find any and every excuse in the cookbook not to do it lol.
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BrentR
I am very much into gourmet BBQing and most types of grilling. My mom never allowed me into the kitchen when I was a kid. That was the domain of women in her 1950's brain. It wasn't until I was in junior high and home economics classes were required for all students that I had any training in cooking. So for me it's an artistic and creative outlet vs my wife who considers it just another task.
Thanks to Emeril on the Food Network you can now be a "man's man" and still enjoy cooking.
I also like making my own sourdough starter and home made butter to go with it. If you have not had homemade sourdough bread with fresh churned butter then you have not lived yet. If you come to my place for grub you will not need to eat again for at least two days.
Edited to add: Any of you single guys out there keep in mind that women cannot resist a guy that can cook. It's like shooting fish in a barrel.
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Don Imus Fired!
by minimus in....for saying "nappy headed hos".
he's off tv and radio.
personally, he's never been my favorite but i like him more than the reverend al sharpton!
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BrentR
She is just making our point for us.