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By Chris Cermak Aug 31, 2007, 0:09 GMT

A chilling thought: college shooter could have been treated


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MikeAug 31st, 2007 - 01:08:53

So...some wacko goes off the deep end and 'isn't a shame he could have been treated'. Well, yes, it is I guess. This sure is a great way to treat the families and loved ones this ordeal affected. Sorry your son/daughter/friend is dead, poor shooter could have been treated, isnt that sad?

Holy hell, don't you reporters have something better to cover...like a WAR? A soon to kick off presidential election? Thank God it will be Bush's turn to stand down soon, thankfully then all you smacktards can stop bashing Bush just because its the 'in' thing to do. Bunch of hacks.

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conservative valuesAug 31st, 2007 - 01:25:13

why should a university have take on the responsibility of what happened. where were the parents after he left his so called pre university counseling where he was doing so 'good' We have tied the hands of society with the bleeding heart attitude tha you have a right to privacy no matter what the consequences are. This is one result of that! I cant imagine anyone on a registration panel would have accepted this total misfit into college had they been aware of his past.! The civil liberties union would have been all over the universities case if they had tried to effectively intervened, & the bleeding heart press would have been right on top of crucifying the university too! ' Suppression of free speech etc, etc.

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blame-gameAug 31st, 2007 - 02:24:12

Well it looks like we can put another case in the books, because we now have finally found someone to blame. Good Job America for preserving your feedom to be safe again by pointing your red, white, and blue finger.

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JohnAug 31st, 2007 - 02:26:16

Please do not comment on this or any health matters about which you know nothing. Everybody always wants a 'solution' and everybody seems ready to presume how any tragedy could have been avoided, if only the world saw it there way. Perhaps it is this narrow-mindedness and anti-human attitude that causes such tragedies to manifest in troubled people. At least research supports my position ... how 'bout yours?

Furthermore, taking away civil liberties of humans will not help our social system to improve. If we want to know how to solve our tremendous social problems, we might look at other societies that are less violent--in other words, almost anywhere but here.

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JAYNEAug 31st, 2007 - 03:24:08

What a big surprise!

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Gimme a BreakAug 31st, 2007 - 04:44:57

This Nutjob has such a long history and his parents play the fool, like they would've done seomthing had they known. C'mon, they knew he was wacked out, they wanted to look the other way like everyone else. And as far as treatable - doubtful. Hate to break the news to these idiot handwringing liberal reporters, but not everyone or everything can be 'fixed'. He was way twisted. This is not the time to Monday morning QB and think 'if we only woulda'.... How 'bout doing a report about what a despicable scumbag this kid was for what he did....

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voiceofreasonAug 31st, 2007 - 05:21:03

Yeah! He could have had the same pills that Owen Wilson was taking!
TREATMENT = PILLS (THAT DON'T WORK)...There are no success stories for the mentally ill. (but there is alot of money to be made. Cha Ching!)

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Joe FoxAug 31st, 2007 - 13:21:32

The key question the panel ignored was 'Why was the parents not told of their son's mental problems? I think all other 'mistakes' follow that one.

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SP4: yeah treat him...Aug 31st, 2007 - 14:47:38

...to a lead suppository, right up his ass.

These liberals hide behind this sickness diatribe because it avoids the obvious questions of campus security i.e. no armed guards. The fact is they'd rather see students dead than see a gun in their presence.

They will walk around, looking academic, driveling on about 'reform of campus procedures' or some crap, until exactly the moment when the press passes and go straight back to business as usual.

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PotterAug 31st, 2007 - 15:24:24

Gee - you think? What an obvious conclusion! Better than the ones who want to go around with a gun in place of a brain!

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Steve RealSep 2nd, 2007 - 02:43:28

These results are total B.S.

E-mail warnings have nothing
to do with these gun shops
selling guns to anyone
for any price.

New York City has the toughest gun laws
in America
but they still have a lot of handgun murders.

why?

Most,
if not all these handguns
were bought in Virginia and Georgia.
These irresponsible gunshops should be sued right out of business.

E-mail warnings?
what's wrong with these people?
Are they that intellectually bankrupt
not to see the real reasons
for these murders?

Don't they read?

These gun shops sell to every scum bag
out there.
Let's place the responsibility
for these murders in New York City and Virginia Tech
were they lie,
with these totally irresponsible gun shops.

Good Luck

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DirkSep 2nd, 2007 - 05:01:32

Guess what? Hollywood is releasing a movie soon titled 'SHOOT EM UP'. No one ever learns a damn thing, do they?

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SP4: Oh yeah!Sep 3rd, 2007 - 01:03:24

...everyone in New York gets their guns from Virginia! After all, the liberals would have you believe they ran around and took a poll!

'...good morning sir....do you have an illegal gun in the house? You do? Where did you get it? Oh...you drove to Virginia!'

Liberals are so scared of being wrong, they concoct facts to support their failed arguments.

By the way, whats of--king chilling about the fact that he could have had treatment?

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info.Sep 3rd, 2007 - 12:42:08

bring more of these chinc's over here .

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yahSep 9th, 2007 - 17:16:33

shoulda/coulda/ woulda

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