FFO, it’s populated and controlled by humans.

Tell me about it. It is too bad that the world is ruled by plutocrats.

If it was normal and fair, I’d be worried that I’d finally snapped and was sitting at Lakeside in a padded room.

Ditto.

What was that joke? “We know Saddam has WMDs, we’ve got the receipts!”

I think it was Bush or someone who worked for him that said that.

…was it really worth arming despots that had committed genocides?

No, but the CIA couldn’t care less.

Your statistics are fudged. They don’t include the Beslan incident and therefore can be presumed not to be an accurate tally of worldwide “terrorist” school killings.

I think you missed the part where the post was about school killings in the UNITED STATES. Not the WORLD. So you ought to have focused on whether or not they were an accurate tally of US school killings. When you’re looking at how to solve a problem, it makes sense to look at its root causes. I know it’s hard to believe, but because different countries are, well, you know, different, it makes sense to look at the pattern of events in the country you’re concerned with. Therefore, when looking at how to solve the problem of school shootings in the United States, it makes sense to look at the pattern in the United States. A pattern that has not included any instances of school killings by Muslims. No bomb-wearing Muslims shouting “Allahu Akbar.” No red-bandana wearing martyrs with visions of 72 virgins dancing in their heads. Oddly, the township went with what seems to be the most likely scenario based upon actual events in the United States. What happened in Beslan, while absolutely tragic, isn’t related to school shootings in the United States.

Although, really, for someone so concerned with stupidity on the part of other people, all that should have been obvious to you. I rather wonder why you moved the goalposts like that. Unless you really can’t grasp the difference between the United States and the world or your reading of the post was less than, shall we say, thorough.

http://tinyurl.com/2wubpg

If we had an ongoing civil war with well-organized militias constantly skirmishing with government troops like they do in Chechnya, then we probably would need to drill our kids in what to do if a band of rebels takes over the school. Until then, though, Beslan is about as relevant to US security needs as tsunami drills in Kansas.

Can you point to any Muslims who killed school children in the United States? Speaking of “stupidity on your part”…

That’s 365 fatalities missing from one side of the equation if we take the broader meaning of terrorist killings (not just shooting deaths).

BTW, your link included shootings whether fatal or not. Over 300 people died and 700 were wounded at Beslan. That’s approximately one thousand casualties, vs. the tally for your list which doesn’t distinguish between terrorism, and other reasons such as personal grievances. Nor does it distinguish between Christians and other groups, nor whether the killings were motivated by Christian ideology, separatism, or bigotry against non-believers.

Christians can and do murder others on the basis of their ideology, be it homosexuals or doctors. Such ideology is in need of reform.

Also, lack of results doesn’t mean lack of desire either. It’s more an issue of access and prevention. The Buddhist statues in Afghanistan lasted so long not due to any tolerance on the part of Muslims for the religious icons of others but purely over the issue of means. Destroying such large relics is difficult . Muslim terrorists similarly don’t have ready access to our schools.

Disclaimer for Other Commenters: This comment is not to be interpreted as agreeing or disagreeing with any other portion of the article, or other comments. Nor should single words be taken out of my comment and spliced into racist diatribes. One should also not take my use of the words “Muslim” as racist when you do not take my use of the word “Christian” as racist under similar circumstances. In which case one should interpret me as hating both light skinned and dark skinned people for consistency sake. Althought that’s just stupidity on your part in the first place.

If it was normal and fair, I’d be worried that I’d finally snapped and was sitting at Lakeside in a padded room.

What was that joke? “We know Saddam has WMDs, we’ve got the receipts!”

I missed the cold war, was it really worth arming despots that had committed genocides?

It’s a crazy world, isn’t it?

I know CSI is fictional, and it’s not that fast, but it’s not that slow.

They know he had a seizure or something, and they’re afraid to release the info.