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I’ve interviewed Wayne Lo for Giant Robot, and these days, we’re penpals. I once asked him a few questions about school shootings, and in light of today’s event, I thought maybe, it would be a good time to have people read what he has to say about school shootings, to hopefully understand them just a little more. On December 14, 1992 Wayne Lo killed 2 and injured 4 at Simon’s Rock College. He’s often forgotten about when school shooters are mentioned, and each event is just as tragic as any other. He’s now serving a life sentence at MCI-Norfolk in Massachusetts. What’s your opinion on the recent school shooting wave? My opinion? It sucks every time another one happens cause I know how much sadness and anguish the victims feel. I wouldn’t call it a wave cause what is a wave? 2 in a day? 3 in a month? 4 in 2 months like recently? I believe there were 3 in 1992 when my incident happened. Any one incident is too much. We shouldn’t forget about school shootings when it doesn’t happen, and we shouldn’t get overly worked up when a few happens in a row. Why is it happening? Well, 2 of the past 4 shootings were committed by non-school related individuals so I cannot speak about them at all. But of course, those committed by ex students, it’s pretty simple. They felt wronged somehow and wish to exact revenge. I don’t know if people copycat. Cause I doubt anyone commits a shooting merely to imitate another incident. There has to be some kind of underlying problem already. Do you feel any responsibility for them? Well, I guess it would be very conceited of me to think I have responsibility for any shootings that happened after my own. But I also wonder if anyone saw my case and decided they would do the same. Again, I have no idea if people copycat. But if someone came out and said, “I did it cause Wayne Lo did it,” then it would be devastating to know cause I have inflicted enough pain as in my own case. Maybe I need to say people shouldn’t do what I did? I don’t know if that would help. Do you think you understand what the shooters were / are going through? Well, I can understand them in a very general way and that is they must be angry and depressed and they are obviously getting no help from their surroundings. I haven’t heard of a shooting which wasn’t planned out. So obviously there is a “cry for help” in the planning stages. If we can reach them during this period, then we can avoid tragedies. It seems most are bent on killing themselves after they kill, did you want to do that? I think or I have read that suicide and homocide are the same thing. Suicide is merely self-homocide. So you may ask why don’t people just commit suicide rather than taking out...
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I've interviewed Wayne Lo for Giant Robot, and these days, we're penpals. I once asked him a few questions about school shootings, and in light of today's event, I thought maybe, it would be a good time to have people read what he has to say about school shootings, to hopefully understand them just a little more.
On December 14, 1992 Wayne Lo killed 2 and injured 4 at Simon's Rock College. He's...
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On December 14, 1992 Wayne Lo killed 2 and injured 4 at Simon's Rock College. He's...
That’s Paul Wong from Beyond going crazy on his solo.Except for the jerkoffs backstage who messed up the timing on our pullaway tombstone, everything went perfectly!How many fingers can you fit up those nostrils?
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I woke up with this little lady today.This was the final end piece to The Heavenly Kings saga. Almost exactly 1 year after our premiere at the Cultural Center in HK, we take home the award for best new director at the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards in the same place. It’s been a long journey that lasted a total of 4 years since it’s inception. We also managed to pull off ,arguably, the strangest and whackiest performance in the history of the HKFA, as we, along with the entire crew sang our cheesy boyband song “Adam’s Choice” for the last time.(will post the youtube link asap). We still have a couple more film festivals to go to, like the San Francisco International Film Fest, but last night was the emotional closure on this crazy ass project. The book is now closed! Im officially retired from boyband life! Couldn’t have had a more perfect day.Now to more serious domestic issues. My dog Buddy has a torn right ACL and is going in for an operation tomorrow. Same shit happened to me four years ago so I know what she’s going though. Compunded with the fact that she has a perpetually pittiful face, I am worried and sad for her. Anyone a vet or has had a dog go through with this procedure? What do I need to do or look out for post op?
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Art Night. Plenty of art shows! 1 Clare Rojas at Lisbeth Oliveria2 Luster at a group show at Angstrom3 Albert Reyes at Show Cave4 Scoops5 Jill Bliss at Reform School6 GRSL7 BBQ Riblets at Britespot
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