Another Shooting, This Time In Orlando

[Strike For The South]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/...ngs/index.html

Ugh.

[Louis VI the Fat]

my libreal pres has stil not confirmt its the evil muslisms

[drone]

Sounds like the standard disgruntled, going postal event, except the gunman escaped and nobody died (yet).

Edit-> 1 dead, and disgruntled ex-employee in custody.

[Crazed Rabbit]

A BBC report, with info drone has;

Police in the US city of Orlando say they have arrested a gunman who opened fire in an office building, killing one person and injuring five others.

Jason Rodriguez, a 40-year-old man who once worked in the building, surrendered to police at his mother's house, police chief Val Demings said.

The attack took place at the offices of an engineering firm at the Gateway Center building at 1130 (1630 GMT).

Luckily the toll is low. Also, he was fired two years ago.

CR

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Well, they say a shooting like the ft hood one can spark others, right?

[drone]

Also, he was fired two years ago.

Which is probably why he half-ed it. Can you really hold a grudge for that long? If he was truly mad he would have killed more and done himself in at the end.

[ICantSpellDawg]

People are going to start killing each other more and more. The question that alot of these people ask themselves, some of whom are reasonably rational is: "I want to, so why shouldn't I?"

Seems like they are coming up short of answers as of late.

Single people have less to lose and fewer to embarass. Marriage rates are going down and males are losing their jobs at a faster rate than women because of the pay disparity. There is alot to be frustrated about and we shouldn't look at newspapers like they are UFO's when we hear that people are killing one another.

[Louis VI the Fat]

What's the big deal? Americans are shooting each other all the time...

The deal is that the wrong people die at these shootings.



America is a big country. A brief google didn't yield any numbers I was looking for, but I think the amount of shootings isn't tremendously higher per capita.

Shootings are culturally determined. Famous are the suicide bombers, of mainly the Islamic world. And another well-known example are school shootings, which are confined to the north. In Europe, only the Northwest. Germany, Scandinavia (Finland!), the British Isles. And North America.

Not South America or Southern Europe. No satisfactory explanation exists. Though some psychologists argue that Northerners do not express themselves emotionally. They internalise anger, and then, one day, a year later, two year's later, eight years later, they explode. They take out all of their stored frustration.
Latins express their emotions on the spot, and that's it. Fiery and feisty, instead of years of build up anger looking for an outlet.

This latter seems to be the origin of the shootings in Texas and Florida.


Tuff - yes. Nothing beats male crime like marriage.

[Louis VI the Fat]

You can't win this, Strike. Our Scandinavian posters will all be permanently drunk, depressed and full time behind their computer screen until April, when there will be daylight again.

[Kadagar_AV]

You can't win this, Strike. Our Scandinavian posters will all be permanently drunk, depressed and full time behind their computer screen until April, when there will be daylight again.

Yeah, cause the winter is just HORRID for us Swedish ski instructors!



EDIT: You were not all wrong about the "permanently drunk" part though... But then, it's not so bad sitting down with your guests or friends after a long fun day in the slope, drinking some beer and having a good time :)

That's me BTW, from last season. Just another day at the office ;)

[Cronos Impera]

Nice post Khagar.

[Kadagar_AV]

Nice post Khagar.

Sometimes a picture does say more than a thousand words

[HoreTore]

You can't win this, Strike. Our Scandinavian posters will all be permanently drunk, depressed and full time behind their computer screen until April, when there will be daylight again.

I can assure you Louis, we're all just as drunk all year round....

[Strike For The South]

You can't win this, Strike. Our Scandinavian posters will all be permanently drunk, depressed and full time behind their computer screen until April, when there will be daylight again.

Give me Southern Europe any day. Good weather, good food, and people don't kill themselves nearly as much.

[A Very Super Market]

How far South? The entire city of Palermo is 60% mafia influenced.

[Strike For The South]

How far South? The entire city of Palermo is 60% mafia influenced.

Well thats just like South Texas