Tuesday, November 6

Licensing

I can see why you'd want to clean your gun in school. If I stretch my imagination. Maybe you're one of those people who are anal. You didn't have time to do it this morning so you brought it along to school, took it to a classroom, spread your stuff around and cleaned it. Decided to take a coffee break and left everything behind, ended up forgetting about it. Maybe. It could happen.

I can even see how someone would do it as a hoax. Maybe to get out of a test, a committee meeting, a conference, a meeting with a particularly obnoxious PI. You bring just the cleaning kit and the empty shell box, arrange it on the desk in one of the classrooms. You sneak away. Someone will eventually find it and there, problem solved.

If I try really hard, I can see someone deciding to kill themselves. You have OCD. You need the gun to be clean before you can use it. So you sneak it into school, find an empty classroom, clean it, leave the cleaning stuff behind (it seems pointless to lug it along with you), find an empty toilet stall, lock yourself in and shoot yourself. Maybe a med student who failed a year.

But I have to actually attempt an out-of-body imaginative exploratory venture to see why someone would want to shoot random people down. You're not happy with your life, so you decide to clean a gun, load it and kill a bunch of people you don't know from Adam? Go figure.

4 comments:

Nath said...

Is this about the Finnish incident?

Random shooting sprees are rare, mostly because there's not much reason for them. Most shooting sprees are not particularly random; the shooter usually has a grievance against the group of people he targets.

As for why they do it, I found an interesting line in (of all places) this book. It went something like this:
"People want to be loved. If not loved, liked. If not liked, respected. If not respected, they will settle for being feared."
I'm sure I'm misquoting, but that's the gist of it.

Revealed said...

Never read that one :). And it was actually about something that happened at my school yesterday. I know they're rare but still so spooky, no?

What was the Finnish incident?

Revealed said...

Wow. Some crazy ass stuff happens around here (on earth, i mean).

Revealed said...

@CnB: You said it in one.