01-29-2006, 08:12 PM
Well, I already said that I was talking about how sentencing has affected one anecdotal story that I was personally familiar with. I wasn't particularly talking about media coverage or any other incident. I wasn't talking about the problem of school shootings in general. I was using an example from ONE school shooting to talk about the effects of sentencing. You were hijacking my post to make a point. Maybe Occhi was snide, but he has a point.
You also made quite a few assumptions about race and social class in the incident I mentioned. While several others were wounded, two died. One was a white boy from Massachusetts who was probably middle class at the time of his death, but whose family had been on welfare during his childhood. The other was an Argentinian man who had survived a childhood of poverty in the slums of Buenos Aires only to die from a homicide in western Massachusetts. The shooter was a recent immigrant from Taiwan.
Yeah, rich white people. Whatever. Just because I'm not talking about inner-city gun violence AT THIS EXACT MOMENT IN TIME doesn't mean that I'm ignoring the problem and focusing exclusively on the ills of the poor misunderstood dears in Beverly Hills or whatever.
I also don't tend to talk about inner city gun violence when I'm sleeping, even though I spend about 1/3 of my life asleep. Clearly I'm part of the problem, and not part of the solution.
Bah.
You also made quite a few assumptions about race and social class in the incident I mentioned. While several others were wounded, two died. One was a white boy from Massachusetts who was probably middle class at the time of his death, but whose family had been on welfare during his childhood. The other was an Argentinian man who had survived a childhood of poverty in the slums of Buenos Aires only to die from a homicide in western Massachusetts. The shooter was a recent immigrant from Taiwan.
Yeah, rich white people. Whatever. Just because I'm not talking about inner-city gun violence AT THIS EXACT MOMENT IN TIME doesn't mean that I'm ignoring the problem and focusing exclusively on the ills of the poor misunderstood dears in Beverly Hills or whatever.
I also don't tend to talk about inner city gun violence when I'm sleeping, even though I spend about 1/3 of my life asleep. Clearly I'm part of the problem, and not part of the solution.
Bah.
Why can't we all just get along
--Pete
--Pete