• Jo MiranOP
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      3110 months ago

      Cut the year some slack. Today was the first day of school. It’s hard to have a school shooting when school’s out.

      • Flying Squid
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        910 months ago

        So what you’re saying is it only took less than a day.

        • Jo MiranOP
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          1010 months ago

          Correct. In fact, it seems that the casually numbers are low because shooter was early.

          • Flying Squid
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            310 months ago

            That’s where they went wrong. Always show up fashionably late when you want to attempt mass murder.

              • Flying Squid
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                310 months ago

                It pissed me off that it essentially got trench coats banned at high schools. I graduated in 1995 and my friends and I all wore black trench coats all through high school. I even had a leather one what I loved (I’ve actually been thinking about getting a mock leather trench coat recently). It was stupid enough that my high school had a no hat rule.

                • @Sweetpeaches69
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                  Oh, man. Yeah, I would be mad too. Especially after the dust settled and it turned out the Trench Coat Mafia was just harmless tech geeks (with the exception of the shooters, ofc), not Nazis and terrorists.

                  I’d say get the mock leather trenchcoat, and rock it.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    310 months ago

                    It’s more a matter of cost than worrying about what I’ll look like in it. I’ve never given a fuck what other people thought of what I looked like. I look like how I want to look.

                    But a nice one, and I’d hate to get a cheap one and just have to replace it in a year, is upwards of $150 and I can’t really afford that right now.

                  • @clearedtoland
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                    310 months ago

                    I’m younger than you folks but the trench coat kids scared the shit out of me after Columbine - mostly because of the media fearmongering. Remember “rock is the devil’s music” days?

                    Then I went to HS and became a JNCO jeans and trench coat kid, and the crew was the most down-to-earth and accepting folks I knew. Scariest thing about me back then was how long I could play PC games for every day.

    • @assassin_aragorn
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      210 months ago

      Don’t worry, I’m sure there have been shootings elsewhere in the country that weren’t mass shootings within an hour of the New Year