Dire News From Cumbria...

[endlessrarities]

My thoughts tonight go to the residents (both permanent and temporary) of Cumbria.  It's the last place you'd expect a mass murderer to be running amok, but then that's usually the case, isn't it?

Why is it these losers can't just cut out the middleman and turn the gun on themselves first, without involving all these poor innocents who just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time?? 

Hungerford, Dumblane, Whitehaven.  Another place name is etched in collective folk memory.  For all the wrong reasons...

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[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

I just heard about that, on Facebook of all places (which is increasingly where I get my news these days). One just doesn't think of this sort of thing happening there. Just horrible.

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

I heard about this on the ride home. I totally agree with you.

[medievalmuse.livejournal.com]

I thought those types of nutjobs were limited to America due, in part, to the ease of getting guns here. It is indeed heartbreaking.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Slowly but surely, we're turning into a mini-America. Big cars, huge shopping malls, endless consumerism, a dependence upon fossil fuels and the odd gun massacre. And an emphasis on celebrity at the expense of intellectualism...

No offence, but I'd much rather we were looking towards mainland Europe as our role-model. But unfortunately, mainland Europe's following us down the American route...

Let's just all be proud that we're swimming against the tide...

[medievalmuse.livejournal.com]

Oh, no offense taken:) and there are some of us in America who try out best to live simple, responsible lives. Unfortunately the "trend" of being green will likely be just that - the next fad, quickly forgotten. The lessons of our bad economy (bigger is not always better) will also likely be forgotten. Like our entire country has a bad case of ADD.

I thought guns were very difficult to get in the UK. Is that not the case?

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

I know, and it's lovely to know you're out there.

I'm sure there's a similar proportion of nitwits to sensible folk in the UK as there is in the States...

Supposedly, our gun laws are surpassed only by Japan's when it comes to their strictness - at least that's what they're saying on the Channel Four News! After Dunblane, there was a curb on handguns (thanks, Channel Four!), but shotguns and rifles (the offending objects in yesterday's carnage) were left unaffected because they're for 'hunting'.

Problem is: this man was a law-abiding gun-user for twenty odd years before he turned into a nutter. How are you meant to legislate for that, I wonder??

[medievalmuse.livejournal.com]

Have there been any possible theories as to what prompted his sudden violent rampage?

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

It's beginning to come out now.

He shot his twin brother first, and the family solicitor second. Then he went to the taxi-rank, where he may have had a grievance with another driver.

After that, he randomly picked off folk. But he seems to have gone for older people, though not exclusively. He avoided young children and mothers with young children...

I suppose there's some kind of twisted logic in there somewhere, buried very deep...