Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)

Mentally Disabled Shooter Adam Lanza

Hogzy wrote: »

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If the above doesnt change Americas gun laws, then nothing will.

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE: AMERICA'S WORST SCHOOL MASSACRES


1. Virginia Tech - 32 dead plus the shooter, 16 April 2007, Blacksberg, Colorado
Student Seung Hui Cho, 23, killed two stuidents in a dorm and then went through building of classrooms armed with two handguns, shooting at random before killing himself.

2. University of Texas - 16 dead plus shooter, 1 August 1966, Austin, Texas
Former Marine sniper Charles Whitman, 25, armed with an arsenal of weapons shot victims from the observation deck of the campus tower.

3. Columbine High School - 13 dead plus two shooters, 20 April 1999, Littleton, Colorado
Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire outside the school killing students and one teacher before shooting themselves in the library.

4. Red Lake High School - 9 dead plus shooter, 21 March 2005, Red Lake, Minnesota
Jeffrey Weise, 17, goes on a shooting spree at Red Lake High School killing nine people, including his grandfather, before shooting himself.

5. University of Iowa - five dead plus shooter, 1 November 1991, University of Iowa
Gang Lu, 27, a graduate student from China killed five with a .38-caliber revolver. He was apparently angry because his doctoral dissertation had not been nominated for an academic award.

6. Amish schoolhouse massacre - six dead plus shooter, 2 October 2, 2006, Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania
Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, executes five girls aged 7 to 13 before killing himself in a small Amish schoolhouse

7. Jonesboro, Arkansas - five dead, 24 March 1998, Jonesboro, Arkansas
Mitchell Johnson, 10, and Andrew Golden, 8, took seven guns to school and pulled the fire alarm and shot students as they headed for the exits. Four died plus a teacher. The pair were sent to a juvenile detention center and released in 2005.

8. Cleveland Elementary School - five dead plus shooter, 17 January 1989, in Stockton, California
Patrick Edward Purdy entered a schoolyard and opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle at Cleveland Elementary School. Five children died and 30 others were wounded including one teacher. He then shot himself.

9. University of Arizona – three dead plus shooter, 28 October 2002, University of Arizona
Robert Flores, 40, a nursing student shot an instructor in her office before entering a classroom and killing two more teachers before committing suicide.

10. Kent State University – four dead, 4 May 1970, Kent State University in Ohio
National Guard troops killed four students who took part in anti-war protests on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio.

It's nothing new and won't change a thing.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248197/Sandy-Hook-elementary-shooting-29-dead-including-22-children-Connecticut-school.html

"Raising a flag over the Reichstag"

As iconic a picture as you're going to get from the WW2 era.

This was a big story in the early 70's when a 13 year old girl was found to have been isolated in a dark room for almost her entire life, strapped to a toilet chair all day long, day-in-day-out with no social or emotional interaction and mental stimulation. She would be strapped down and tied into a sleeping bag where she couldn't move her limbs.

It's noted as being one of the most extreme cases of social deprivation and child abuse as contact with another human was kept to absolute minimum. Her father was nuts and was the only one who had any contact with her, only to beat and scream at her if she did anything. Even as much as making a whimpering sound she would be punished harshly.

She never left that room and a yellow raincoat was the only stimulant she ever had. There was a window but she couldn't anything other than a few inches of the sky.

She was only discovered when her mother took her out one day and went into a wrong office when she was seeking benefits for her blindness (the mother had cataracts) and a social worker saw how awful Genie looked.

After she was taken into care her, clearly mad in the head, father killed himself.

She was 13 but she appeared to be half that age and moved in an extremely bizarre way, like Mr. Burns with his hands out:



She became a highly interesting case to psychologists, linguists and other scientists into how she developed her own language and ways of communicating. There was much debate whether she was mentally disabled or her condition was the result of isolation (which obviously had a major effect on her).

She was supposedly learning basic words and sign language at a reasonable rate (which lead the argument that she wasn't as mentally handicapped as first assumed) and was able to communicate to scientists about things, albeit, in a crude way. It was noted she like classical music as it was the only form of music she heard from one of the neighbour's kids playing the piano.

She regressed when she was put in a foster home and refused to open her mouth as she was beaten for vomiting. She was scared silly that opening her mouth would result in getting a thrashing from someone so she reverted back to sign language.

A big lawsuit was filed from one researcher, who was a foster parent to her at one point, who used Genie's mother to push the case. This resulted in funding being cut and care for her slipped away.

Now, she lives in an adult foster home. Not much is known about her other than when a private investigator found her back in 2000 where he described her as being "happy"

This is her from 1988


You can read up on her story on Wiki and this documentary:


It's quite fascinating yet horrible that a human life was treated in such a throwaway fashion.

I can't watch that documentary on Genie. The story is heartbreaking enough without listening to that scientist/researcher referring to her as a creature. The poor child never had a chance either before or after her release.

Not exactly world-shocking, but here's a picture I took of Hitler's bunker this year. There's basically nothing to mark it these days, it's deliberately so, so that it doesn't become a focus for any neo nazi movements, it's just a car park to a block of flats:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/y1u9bry37nml5gb/X3mTyz02I2

I don't know anyone in the photo, they're just randomers that were on the same walking tour as me

zhangj5 wrote: »

Nanking Massacre at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
images cause distress

Mod: Sorry, but that's a little too graphic for here.

Over 200,000 were killed during this 6 week atrocity. Just googled some of the images of the Nanking massacre and the pictures are much worse and barbaric than anything similar out of Poland/Germany. This is one of the more famous pictures





Coincidentally General Tani Masuo who oversaw the Nanking Massacre was executed in March 1947 after being found guilty of war crimes. Poetically his executioner was a Chinese veteran who survived the Battle of Nanking.

Not a grumesome image but see HERE

What’s makes it even more upsetting for the Chinese is the recent denial by one top level Japanese government official that the event took place.


Edit addon. Looking through all the pics to date on this thread, it is perplexing how some people can be passionate, loving, inspiring, charitable, selfless humanitarians and others can be complete and utter, lowest of the low scumball animals.



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donvito99 wrote: »

Googled nanking massacre also, which I now regret.

There is a photo of a woman, clutching her baby (I think) half-way through being beheaded.

Very, very graphic

I think it's just her leg and I guess what's left of her neck. Hard to believe it's real.

donvito99 wrote: »

Googled nanking massacre also, which I now regret.

There is a photo of a woman half-way through being beheaded.

Very, very graphic

more regret? google Unit 731

http://www.petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2012/09/skyscraper1.jpg
my fave pic of all before the health and safety brigade took the fun out of work lol