Okay so yesterday, I heard there was a attacking of a single 25 year old in a montreal college. He's into goth and violent video games. here's the site : http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/09/14/gunman-shooting.html
WARNING : May offend some people. If you do not like guns or weapons, I advise you NOT to go to this article!
This is shocking to me. He goes to vampirefreaks.com and says that he doesn't trust anyone and this is way he turned goth. This site should be closed and sued for this. What do you think?
2006-09-14 03:30:20 · 7 answers · asked by Christina M 3 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
should sites like these be monitored by adults or something?
(is that better?)
2006-09-14 03:44:28 · update #1
idiots!He lives on his own!I DOUBT anyone would knotice his behaviour!Goths are good at hiding their feelings!
2006-09-14 03:49:34 · update #2
I think it's silly to blame the psychotic actions of a crazy person on a website, video game, or other such nonsense. People did cruel, stupid things before the Internet, before video games, and before violent TV shows and movies.
Too often people are looking for someone to blame when tragedies happen. They don't want to accept that there are just some really mean, bad, evil people in this world who would do mean, bad, evil things no matter what. They don't want to believe that nature can be cruel and harsh, and there's NOTHING that we can to do stop floods, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, ice storms, and hurricanes.
Sometimes bad things happen to innocent people. It's just life. The only person at fault is the person who pulled the trigger.
2006-09-14 03:37:19 · answer #1 · answered by FozzieBear 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
HAHAHAHA wow you are dumb
"Okay so yesterday, I heard there was a attacking of a single 25 year old in a montreal college. He's into goth and violent video games. here's the site : http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/..."
goth and video games had nothing to do to it, and from what i heard, he dosent sound like a goth...
"This is shocking to me. He goes to vampirefreaks.com and says that he doesn't trust anyone and this is way he turned goth. This site should be closed and sued for this. What do you think?"
VF is montitered by adults you ******* idiot, go on there and talk to the admin or jet, VF has 606725 members at this moment, how are they supposed to monitor all that, people slip through the cracks, the shooter also had a myspace, darkstarlings, livejournal, bebo, and many other social networking sites, yet you dont hear about that because the gothic subculture is a scapegoat to you idiots...and goths are born not made, you cant just "turn goth" read my question about accepting subcultures and see a basic statement of what goth is...you cant just turn into that, being goth is a part of a "goths" personality, same with any subculture, and you want to close and sue VF HA! the internet is bacically a free forum of ideas and dosent have to follow many laws, no one owns it...just because one person goes and blows someones head off means we should close a website down, be realistic and if you can manage it not a complete dolt, whats next, ban a subculture, ban goth clubs, ban everything like that, if i were to relplace the word goth with black (or mexican, asian, or any other race) id be labeled a racist, you sound a bit predudice against your idea of the gothic ubculture, why dont you study into it and learn what it is
2006-09-14 13:16:00 · answer #2 · answered by Ethernaut 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm missing something here....
Why should an internet bulletin board and community forum be closed and sued because a mentally ill and troubled young man elected to post his comments there?
If the same young man had expressed similar comments in a letter to the editor of a newspaper, should the newspaper be closed and sued?
If the same young man had photocopied his comments and taped them to the window of a local shop, should the shop be closed and sued?
I hope you're not missing my point. I don't think much of this individual's background has become public knowledge as of yet, and I may well be that there have been responsible people, with some knowledge of the extent of his mental illness, but more importantly, with knowledge of the realistic threat that he posed to the public. However, the fact that there exist online fora, or other outlets for people with alternative lifestyles (in this case, goth posings), and the fact that certain disturbed individuals may be drawn to those fora, does not justify, in any way, the suggestion that the site should be closed and sued.
Where do you draw the line when you begin to identify "acceptable" online community bulletin boards? What if a mentally deranged individual takes to posting his/her dark ramblings on a Hello Kitty or Coupon Clippers Club board?
It may be that there were sufficient warnings to alert someone that this particular killer had snapped, but, yet, I would hope that you don't believe that every "angry young man" (or woman) who expresses a fascination with guns or, perhaps, a death wish, is a deranged assassin, moments away from a killing spree.
Was this a demented and horrible crime? Absolutely. But can future crimes of this nature be prevented by closing and suing these kinds of bulletin boards? Are you saying that you think that the bulletin board itself was the causal factor of his madness?
A more useful cause for you would be to focus on finding ways to fund the availability of community health programs. Mental illness is the boogeyman in the corner that most of us would rather not see. Here's yet another example of an individual who needed serious help, yet it will probably turn out that none was provided for him.
A goth-rooted vampire bulletin board is no more the CAUSE of this crime than a bowling alley was the cause of the all-too-similar Columbine incident. Don't blame the messenger that the killer used to deliver a message of his mental illness - blame the lack of a support network that allowed this killer's illness to fester untreated.
/rant off
2006-09-14 03:53:48 · answer #3 · answered by NotAnyoneYouKnow 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
the ingredient is that if the Leafs win the sport, the ACC in Toronto is a good atmosphere, human beings circulate loopy, they're continually vocal and its this form of great adventure. In Montreal you're gonna hear fairly some booing, in spite of the undeniable fact that it gets fairly loud there too. So i might say Montreal via fact its much less demanding to get tickets, via fact each and all the idiotic company proprietors do not look midway for the time of the sport and take a seat interior the front row, and ur up for an exceedingly vocal and loopy game :)
2016-10-15 00:00:38 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is very sad to see something like this happen here in Canada. I still don't understand why people feel that they need to own guns. Anyways, that's a different issue.
No, I don't believe that the website should be held responsible in any way for what happened. People are free to express their views in this country - that's a part of freedom. He could have just as easily expressed his views here on Yahoo Answers if he wanted to, or nailed a flyer onto to a telephone post. Should Yahoo be shut down for that, or the city sued for having telephone posts? No, of course not.
People are responsible for their own actions, it's not the fault of the method used to express those actions.
2006-09-14 03:42:50 · answer #5 · answered by Ism 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Goth had nothing to do with it. He was obviously a very sick individual, so blame him instead of guns or rap or CDs or video games or subcultures or peer pressure or his choice of clothing or whatever! Geez! Whatever happened to, you know, personal responsibility?
2006-09-14 10:44:26 · answer #6 · answered by Strange Design 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
VF is innocent.He was as mad as a hatter.
Blame the parents for not seeing the signals in his behavior that might have prevented this.
2006-09-14 03:47:04 · answer #7 · answered by moebiusfox 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋