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  2. 27 dead (20 children, 6 adults and shooter) in an elem school in CT

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    I have to disagree with you from an emotional standpoint. Emotionally its a very big deal.... When you are dealing with innocent kids it puts a different spin on it. I understand that from a numbers standpoint its a small drop in the pan, but we are not just talking numbers. I cant remember a time in my life when 20 innocent 5-10 year old children were killed by one man in cold blood.

     

    that's a very true point that the kid factor makes this worse.

     

     

    27 deaths

    27 christmases down the drain

     

    edit: Stalin once said "one death is a tragedy, a million ones is a statistic"....fuck it's so true :(

  4. 27 dead (20 children, 6 adults and shooter) in an elem school in CT

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    I remember when my high school first started locking some of the doors, and stopped allowing backpacks, and started having a k9 unit at one of the doors. It felt like a prison. Of course, this was right after columbine happened. My school had three separate buildings we had to walk between so there's no way to keep that school on lock down, and I would have been rather unhappy had it been. I can see locking down an elementary school but not so much with a high school. Teens need to be able to feel a certain amount of freedom. Maybe along with having assigned cops have a panic button in every classroom. Someone hits it, all the doors in the building magnetically seal and can only be opened by someone with the correct rfid badge like many of us have to get into work. Skip the student GPS tracking and id badges and all that other silliness that just makes it feel like a prison to the kids. And also expel any kid that hits the panic button as a joke

     

     

    Yup....I can't say I would want to see kids get educated in an environment where guns are with every guard at every corner...It seems like it would feel way too "prisony" and wouldn't foster a good setting even though it could potentially provide the necessary safety.

     

    I heard on NPR on my way home from work that there are about 20 or so mass crowd shootings every year in the USA on average and less than 200 people total on average die as a result (I think they said 150 but I was surprised at how low the number was). On the flipside, there are more than 15,000 homicides from non-crowd level shootings.

     

    Basically, although it is a very very shitty situation, when put into perspective it just sucks to come to the realization that it really isn't as big of a deal as it seems......It's tough to write that but it's true if the numbers reported in the previous paragraph are true.

  5. 27 dead (20 children, 6 adults and shooter) in an elem school in CT

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    I don't think there is a realistic fix for this. Zooming out you'd have to change society as a whole, instilling fear and respect back into kids. I wasn't exactly a poster child but I still grew up calling every adult sir/ma'am and "wait till I tell your father" was the last thing I ever wanted to hear. I don't have any pie charts or sources but somewhere over the past few decades I feel that's all been lost.

     

    amen...same thing here from when I grew up

  7. Ways to insulate a garage door

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    I have an 18' door. No insulation. I'd like to find the cheapest way to insulate it.

     

    I've heard the stories about the pre-packaged garage door insulation kits. Next.

     

    A friend told me about just 1" ceiling tiles. He said he found them cheap but can't remember where. Lowes wants way too much.

     

    Thought about the blue 1" thick stuff. Kinda pricey.

     

    Any other ideas? If you did this. how much did you spend?

     

    enlighten me. I was going to do this

  15. ****A LOL Thread?****

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    any Kegel fans?

     

    http://i.imgur.com/zCZcF.jpg

     

    http://i.imgur.com/weGF9.jpg

     

    http://i.imgur.com/kNzxg.jpg

     

    http://i.imgur.com/eIWDV.jpg

     

    http://i.imgur.com/r2EIh.jpg

     

    http://i.imgur.com/jO0WU.jpg

     

    http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/316689_334003213382181_2074336954_n.jpg

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