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[quote 3d][quote M A V I C]I don't think so. Sometimes when I'm taking hard photos, I'm filled with compassion to capture the moment for those pictured, and to help convey the message to others.
Judging from the reaction of the other people in the photo. That person must've just gotten shot 5 seconds before the photo was taken. She looks like she is screaming, bone-chillingly, from the top of her lungs. In that particular situation the photographer chose to stop and stand 10 feet away and start taking photographs of this screaming young woman. He didn't run over to see what happened. He didn't run to get help. He didn't yell for everyone to take cover. He stood there in front of them, composed the photograph and clicked away. That's pretty cold. It's a breath-taking photo though.
But hey... whatever that's just my opinion. Sorry for going off topic.
The victim was shot on-campus by a member of the US National Guard. That's the image people remember, and is, in large part, WHY people remember what Kent State symbolized. An historically important photo, and glad the photographer had more brass than I might've in that situation.
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Prayers are in order. I hope the SOB suffers in Hell.
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[quote jimbrady]An historically important photo, and glad the photographer had more brass than I might've in that situation.
No disagreement there. It's a historic photo. I wonder if there will be any award winning photos of today's massacre sent to news agencies? Surely there must be one student with a camera in his backpack who had the "brass" to take photos of the carnage instead of helping the vicitims and/or running for his life while the massacre was taking place.
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32 deceased + the gunman. Many survivors now in area hospitals.
Prayers and sincere condolences to the victims and their families.
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[quote 3d][quote jimbrady]An historically important photo, and glad the photographer had more brass than I might've in that situation.
No disagreement there. It's a historic photo. I wonder if there will be any award winning photos of today's massacre sent to news agencies? Surely there must be one student with a camera in his backpack who had the "brass" to take photos of the carnage instead of helping the vicitims and/or running for his life while the massacre was taking place.
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Haven't seen any yet but they've shown the cellphone video shot outside the building during the shooting enough times.
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Bastard killed himself. Why do they always bail out like that, like p*ssys, so we never really know what happened in their heads?
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[quote 3d][quote jimbrady]An historically important photo, and glad the photographer had more brass than I might've in that situation.
No disagreement there. It's a historic photo. I wonder if there will be any award winning photos of today's massacre sent to news agencies? Surely there must be one student with a camera in his backpack who had the "brass" to take photos of the carnage instead of helping the vicitims and/or running for his life while the massacre was taking place.
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I was letting it go, but since you keep pressing it...
What evidence (aka, non-assumptions) do you have that:
- person must've just gotten shot 5 seconds before the photo was taken
- He didn't run over to see what happened
- He didn't run to get help
- He didn't yell for everyone to take cover
As far as we can tell from the photo, the alternative might be:
- person was shot 10 minutes earlier
- the photog already went over and tried to help
- the photog left to call help
- the photog kept reminding people to look out
- the woman showed up and he then took the picture
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WHEN is this country going to realise that there is a SIMPLE ANSWER to reduce the number of these sorts of tragedies?
This has very little to do with the political hot potato of "gun control." For the record, I'm not anti-gun but don't own any.
Why can't we simply TIGHTLY REGULATE the SMALL group of guns who's EXCLUSIVE purpose is to kill humans? Not "take away mah gunz," not "outlaw all gunz," just the tiny, tiny, tiny percentage that are inadequate for anything BUT killing large numbers of humans efficiently.
Is that really so out of line? Is that really so wild-eyed, so nuts?
You can still kill humans in a huge variety of ways (including other sorts of guns) if that's what you need to do. But these marauders tend to HUNT humans, and they almost ALWAYS use tools that are designed with ruthless efficiency for that EXACT PURPOSE.
Do you folks (the majority of whom are American) have ANY IDEA how incredibly RARE a tragedy like this outside the US, even in heavily-armed Canada and Russia?
I wonder how many more innocents have to die before this country "gets it."
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