Personally, I have always found it annoying when people just cut and paste large volumes of information and post it.
I agree also. If anything, post a couple quotes of what is most important to your topic, and then reference the rest of it in a link where people can follow up if they want to. When I see huge long quotes from other sites and nothing else, like no personal opinion or commentary it is certainly annoying because I probably have already read all that on a news site already. If I have not, or it's something a little more obscure, I am more interested in hearing what the author has to say and reading about the issue or topic at my own leisure. As to the questionable content, a list of names would have been sufficient if you were starting a mourning thread, but listing names and how they specifically died is totally for sensation sake. Of course, that comes from probably just cut and pasting...
I'm sure some of you remember Columbine and now Tech shooting and the Bath School Disaster...
I'm sure you are aware of the Columbine incident...
I'm also sure you have heard of the University of Texas Massacre...
If you are so sure we are aware of all the information you are posting, what is the purpose of telling us again unless you have something else to add?
...obviously it's speeding up, something needs to be done, ideas?
Here is a legitimate question for discussion, but does not require the breadth of the original post to get at.
I think, as mentioned in a couple other posts already, we need to increase personal communication and interaction among our youth. Obviously, there is
nothing that can stop someone who is dead set on causing harm to many people; but, it seems often times when school shootings happen it is because of people feel outcast or ostracized or did not have a firm grasp of positive ways to voice disappointment and discouragement. If we somehow find a way to teach young young children to voice their feelings and provide them with positive outlets for these emotions I think we will have headed one step in the right direction. Again, some people just want to complain and not do anything about it, and unfortunately, on occasion these people do drastic and inappropriate things. In my opinion, if you don't have any suggestions to offer then you are not justified in complaining.
xvart.
edit: oooh, Andrew, putting quotes inside of quotes! Must have taken some extra typing, unless you have some sweet admin abilities. lol.
