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"An eighth-grade language arts teacher from Maryland has been placed on administrative leave after school officials learned he allegedly authored two books containing questionable content under a pseudonym.
Local network WBOC News reports that the investigation concerns two books published by McLaw under the nom de plume “Dr. K.S. Voltaer,” and one is about a fictional, futuristic school shooting that goes down in history as being the largest ever in the United States.
http://rt.com/usa/182964-teacher-leave-shooting-book/"
This is lunacy. School administrators are terrified there will be another Columbine or Sandy Hook and are overreacting, or are they. What could they do to prevent one. Nothing, nil, zero. No need to ask yourself 'why', say thank you to the traitorous NRA , the propaganda arm of the small arms manufacturing industry, for blocking any form of gun control. They have successfully infected the country with The American Disease™ almost unfettered access to weapons of war that kill with brutal efficiency. Sadly there appears to be no cure.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The preceding paragraph was not up to our standards. The comments to this story are spot on. You expect better than this and we let you down. There are so many comments referring to this paragraph, we cannot just delete it, hence the strike-through. More to follow.]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 30 2014, @01:13PM
By your own post, Charles had a wife, no reason to think he wasn't getting laid.
The two Columbine goths had girlfriends.
The Hungerford guy shot at both men and women, whoever came into contact with him.
The Dunblane guy shot women, because he went to a primary school where most of the teachers are usually women. It's not clear he was looking only for women. He also shot children, not just girls. He was upset because he wanted to be a Scout leader and his motives toward boys were being questioned. So this doesn't look like he was angry with women, more like he was frustrated he wasn't allowed to get near boys.
The Osaka guy was married 4 times, apparently able to get laid at least 4 times.
The Raoul Moat guy had a girlfriend, but couldn't keep her.
Karl Halverson Pierson was after his teacher and debate coach, a man, the girl he shot was just in the wrong place. No one knows if he ever got laid, but he was only 18.
Elliot Rodger appears to have been a self entitled asshole, who would want to screw him?
Are you perhaps projecting?
You apparently think every guy, no matter his age, or personality is entitled to get laid. News flash, some women also have trouble getting some, it's not just men.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Saturday August 30 2014, @01:51PM
The guy who was married and killed his wives obviously wasn't happy with the relationship. The Osaka guy and Raoul Moat had previously formed sexual relationships but hadn't been in one for years. And, apparently, I should research the over cases in more detail.
Regardless, after reading the first half of Elliot Rodger's 100,0000 word life story (which he obviously recalled with great clarity), he was neurotic to the point that he had great difficulty speaking to women. This was not helped by his stature, or his relationship with his mother, his step-mother, his younger half-sister or his only female friend. And it was further complicated by international ties and high-profile success of the people around him. For example, his father worked with Jennifer Lawrence and he'd been invited to two Star Wars premieres.
If there is any projecting in this matter, it is because I know someone who committed suicide in similar circumstances.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by tathra on Saturday August 30 2014, @05:40PM
so in other words, "not getting laid" was more of a symptom of larger problems, like a lack of social skills and social support and in some cases unrealistic expectations of others, and not really the problem at all.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Saturday August 30 2014, @06:05PM
From Elliot Rodger's own words:-
So, it was most definitely because he couldn't get laid. But what compounded the problem was his height (which led to him being bullied repeatedly and gave him anxiety about his attractiveness), negative experiences with almost all females younger than his grandmothers and the world-class success of the people around him. For example, before his parents got divorced, one of their neighbors commercialized barcodes and was worth US$40 million. After his parents got divorced, he was acutely embarrassed that he was living in a Hollywood apartment without a swimming pool. At school, that made him one of the poor kids on two counts.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by tathra on Saturday August 30 2014, @06:31PM
i stand by my point, its a symptom of larger problems. this is a case of tunnel vision, being too focused on one thing to see the broader picture and real problem, and you can't fix a problem if you don't know what it is. if his only problem was wanting to get laid he could've gotten hookers, but since he didn't (or if he did, it obviously didnt address his real needs) it shows that the real problem was the isolation and lack of social support. if he had friends, he could've gotten them to act as wingmen and help get him hooked up, but he lacked the social skills and the confidence to use them (from his own words, due to being bullied - abused - as a child). thinking he could get a woman beyond just a hooker without the proper social skills and effort is an example of unrealistic expectations of others.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Saturday August 30 2014, @07:12PM
Any of these killers could have found a prostitute, used a date rape drug or become a gunpoint/knifepoint rapist but they wanted to have an ongoing relationship with a woman and raise a family. When to honorable path became astronomically remote, they weren't defeated. They didn't commit suicide. They came to the public's attention in a spectacular fashion. To ask the question "Why did this case happen?" is misguided. We should be asking "Why are such cases rare?" and "How can we improve the MTBF?"
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 30 2014, @09:08PM
Oh, puhleeze! Sop right now! You are breaking my heart! Maybe we should start a charity for for these poor Hollywood youth? The script for the TV commercial charity pitch practically writes itself:
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Saturday August 30 2014, @10:54PM
He was bullied repeatedly because of his size which adversely affected his esteem and ability to form relationships with girls. Then he was bullied due to the reduced status which accompanied divorce which adversely affected his esteem and ability to form relationships with girls. Then, after requesting to enrol at a private boys school (specifically to avoid girls) he was further bullied until he dropped out. Despite being able to write 100,000 words coherently, he barely graduated.
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