1 dead, 2 injured - Texas U. Stabbing

[HAcoreRD]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/us/uni...ngs/index.html


no major detail atm


so, where do we go from here? Will this help push mental health under the spot light, or will this be forgotten in a week because there's no guns to force a narrative?

[Deleted]

Nah. There'll be a vigil with candles and some flowers and then everyone apart from those left behind will forget about it. Business as usual.

[BrerBear]

"The University of Texas", not "Texas University".

Pedantic, I know, but TU is used as an insult by their rivals.
Carry on.

[Jeezy911]

Was it a "knife free zone"?

[GennGreymane]

Its Texas....
Didnt they let guns on campuses last year?

[Daymanmb]

so, where do we go from here? Will this help push mental health under the spot light, or will this be forgotten in a week because there's no guns to force a narrative?

The fact that there were no guns will be the narrative. Look how little dmg someone can do with a sharp object vs a full auto weapon...

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Who says it has anything to do with mental health?

I do. Most stable people don't do this sort of thing. There's almost certainly an underlying mental health issue.

[Dug]

Theres no motive yet. Conflicting reports about targetting of frat members

[Zeek Daniels]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/us/uni...ngs/index.html


no major detail atm


so, where do we go from here? Will this help push mental health under the spot light, or will this be forgotten in a week because there's no guns to force a narrative?

Yea ppl always blame the tool rather than the person. As if people are perfect and the tool is what gets them to do crazy things. No people are crazy and its morality keeping us in line.

[Daymanmb]

Yea ppl always blame the tool rather than the person.

The argument isnt the tool is evil lol, the argument is how unstable people have access to and use the tools to hurt and kill people...

[Deleted]

I happens all the time. Nothing special.

[Daymanmb]

I wonder if MMO-C posters realize how many people are murdered ever day by every conceivable sadistic method. It is kind of weird when we focus on random stuff like this. How many people died in Chicago alone today.

No man, youre the only one who knows this. Thanks for passing on your wisdom.

[Dug]

I wonder if MMO-C posters realize how many people are murdered ever day by every conceivable sadistic method. It is kind of weird when we focus on random stuff like this. How many people died in Chicago alone today.

I wonder if you realize the difference between gang on gang violence and seemingly random killings.

[Bathory]

Nah. There'll be a vigil with candles and some flowers and then everyone apart from those left behind will forget about it. Business as usual.

Pretty much. If "Joy Lane" dude didn't push the conversation, I don't think this will get us much further.

[Etselion]

I thought Texas was a state full of good, law-abiding citizens with guns.

This wasn't supposed to happen.

[Bathory]

I thought Texas was a state full of good, law-abiding citizens with guns.

This wasn't supposed to happen.

There weren't enough guns!! We gotta start arming EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!

[Daymanmb]

Based on what... Plenty of people murder other people without any sort of underlying mental health issue.

Really? Find one stable person that has murdered other people in this manner. I have a feeling youre confusing a mental health problem with a diagnosed mental health disorder. Theyre not the same. Just because there tends to be mental health issues in these situations, doesnt mean they arent culpable either..

[Daymanmb]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_O...versity_attack

And I have a feeling that you're confusing someone having any sort of mental illness, health problem, or whatever and someone murdering people because of that.

This is your argument for a stable individual on a killing spree? Try again..

[Daymanmb]

It's an example of someone who killed multiple people for reasons other than mental health issues, which is exactly what you asked for.

Wait, what? No I didnt.. I said find one where mental health isnt an underlying issue.. No one has claimed mental health is the cause of this.. My point, as I think is the OPs point, is that stable people dont do this. If youre unstable, you have a mental health issue.

[Powerogue]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/us/uni...ngs/index.html


no major detail atm


so, where do we go from here? Will this help push mental health under the spot light, or will this be forgotten in a week because there's no guns to force a narrative?

Has the culprit ever played video games?

[Daymanmb]

If a mental health issue isn't the cause of it, then why would "an underlying mental health issue" even be a relevant consideration in the first place? This is of course ignoring that you're either just assuming that anyone who does something like this has a mental health issue or perhaps even treating it tautologically, such that doing something like this automatically means they have a mental health issue. I can't definitely prove someone doesn't have a mental health issue–nobody can–which is why it really needs to be on you to prove that such a condition exists, rather than just assuming there's one and then demanding everyone else prove you wrong. You're basically just talking out of your ass and then deliberately trying to make it hard to discuss the issue in order to avoid having to actually make a case for your position.

I dont know why youre so angry.. The OP said "Will this help push mental health under the spot light", you said "Who says it has anything to do with mental health?" to which anyone with a brain would say, it most likely played a role.. A point you keep arguing for some reason.. Simply put, someone who does something like this is unstable. If we can agree theyre unstable, we can agree there is an underlying, mental health issue.