Binghamton Shooting

[fomoco59]

****... the shooting that's all over the news today is right down the road 3 miles.
Pray for the victims and their families.

[tbird430]

I'll pray fro those effected by this mad man.

I almost wish the media wasn't allowed to turn this into NATIONAL news. I understand making it available to the local area. I just wonder if other people with "mental" issues see these type of events on TV & "get an ideal", do you guys understand what I am trying to say? I mean this stuff used to rarely happen in the past. Then the school shooting started, then there were multiple school shootings, and now crap like this once a week it seems.

Sorry I didn't mean to ramble...

PEACE.

[tarps3]

I'll pray fro those effected by this mad man.

I almost wish the media wasn't allowed to turn this into NATIONAL news. I understand making it available to the local area. I just wonder if other people with "mental" issues see these type of events on TV & "get an ideal", do you guys understand what I am trying to say? I mean this stuff used to rarely happen in the past. Then the school shooting started, then there were multiple school shootings, and now crap like this once a week it seems.

Sorry I didn't mean to ramble...

PEACE.

That's EXACTLY the problem.
I read a study that says our instant-news culture is also why people are less happy and more stressed that any time before.

When a tragedy happens, say in some small town in South Dakota, it is instantly broadcast and sensationalized throughout the nation (gotta get those news ratings - right?)

At its core, it's truly a local matter.
But with the media milking it for all the drama it's worth, we ALL are exposed to it.

The problem is that here I am in Oklahoma and have absolutley no ability to affect the matter. I don't know the victims; I've never even been to South Dakota. All I can do is feel bad for the victims and worry if that same thing may happen to someone I love. It creates a waste of emotion and energy and is counter-productive. We end up living a life of fear and trepidation rather than ambition and hope. No wonder our country has arrived in its current state.

We're all exposed to horrible things on a daily (hourly) basis that have very little to do with us and which we can do nothing about.

I stopped watching the news years ago. I'm much more at peace.

If you listen to the media, anytime there is a gun around, someone gets hurt.
I went to a national gun and knife show yesterday with 10's of thousands of people and possibly as many firearms and millions of rounds of ammunition...nobody even got into a fistfight.

Funny - I didn't see any news story breaking into my normal TV viewing last night talking about it.

[Coral]

I totally agree...local news should be LOCAL news...
Shoving things/ideas/happenings into peoples faces on a continual basis is nothing more THAN stoking the fire!

I pray for all those hurt, by any means, as it is a tragedy -
There are just TOO many people in the world today that have no morals, care or concern for their fellow man.
I'm not sure where it went under, but the last man I ever looked up to was my grandfather - worked hard all his life, had a garden, fished, hunted every so often, ate anything he killed wasted nothing and had savings..no credit cards, outlandish debts.

I saw on a news bulletin the other day where homeless people can get help paying their cell phone service -
Do NOT get me wrong, I am right up there with helping out,
but if you TEACH a man to fish, he can eat for a lifetime, versus just handing him a fish for one meal....
sorry for the ramble....

Cathie

[tarps3]

I'm not sure where it went under, but the last man I ever looked up to was my grandfather - worked hard all his life, had a garden, fished, hunted every so often, ate anything he killed wasted nothing and had savings..no credit cards, outlandish debts.

Cathie

I'm there with ya.
My family (well, my grandfather's generation) were sharecroppers and lived in a dirt-floor 1-room shack.
They worked hard and saved until they could buy their own farm. They lived thru the OTHER depression.

I grew up on the family farm with them.

After my grandmother passed last Spring (93 years old) I inherited all of the farm business records.
There were many, many years where their income was either ZERO or negative... followed by a couple of years of prosperity which allowed them to save up for the next "hard times".
They didn't get government bailouts (it would be an insult to them to even consider it).
They didn't have someone pay their electric bill or - ridiculously - cell phone bill.
If they didn't have the money for somethihg, they didn't buy it. Never owned a credit card.

Yet - they were the most generous and content people I've ever met. They often took in families who were having a hard time and supported them until they could get back on their feet even though they had very little themselves.

You're right - that generation earned a great deal of respect and I am very thankful I grew up in that environment.
I can live off the land and survive almost anything due to their guidance.

thanks for posting.

[fomoco59]

This is a small, safe community recognized recently as a great place to move to. This area was industrialized by European immigrants in the 1920's. These that were terrorized or killed were immigrants or staff that were using the system provided as it was intended. Many of us are affected by this tradegy. Within my company, friends and neighbors were lost. One man in our IT dept lost his wife and it turns out the shooter once worked in my building. It's just mind boggling how someone could do this.

... and you're right, it's incredible how much media was in town over the weekend. What a circus.

I won't mention it anymore.

[tarps3]

This is a small, safe community recognized recently as a great place to move to. This area was industrialized by European immigrants in the 1920's. These that were terrorized or killed were immigrants or staff that were using the system provided as it was intended. Many of us are affected by this tradegy. Within my company, friends and neighbors were lost. One man in our IT dept lost his wife and it turns out the shooter once worked in my building. It's just mind boggling how someone could do this.

... and you're right, it's incredible how much media was in town over the weekend. What a circus.

I won't mention it anymore.

The whole thing is very tragic and so senseless.
My prayers are with you and your friends.

Hang in there.