Murders and Shootings

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hodj_sl said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

David Charles Hahn (born October 30, 1976), also called the "Radioactive Boy Scout" or the "Nuclear Boy Scout", is an American who attempted to build a homemade breeder nuclear reactor in 1994, at age 17. A scout in the Boy Scouts of America, Hahn conducted his experiments in secret in a backyard shed at his mother's house in Commerce Township, Michigan. While his reactor never reached critical mass, Hahn attracted the attention of local police who found radioactive materials in the trunk of his car. His mother's property was cleaned up by the Environmental Protection Agency ten months later as a Superfund cleanup site. Hahn attained Eagle Scout rank in the Boy Scouts of America shortly after his reactor was dismantled.[1]
While the incident was not widely publicized initially, it became better known following a 1998 Harper's article by journalist Ken Silverstein. Hahn is also the eponymous subject of Silverstein's 2004 book, The Radioactive Boy Scout.

Creation of the reactor

Hahn is an Eagle Scout who received a merit badge in Atomic Energy and spent years tinkering with basement chemistry which sometimes resulted in small explosions and other mishaps. He was inspired in part by reading The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments, and tried to collect samples of every element in the periodic table, including the radioactive ones. Hahn diligently amassed this radioactive material by collecting small amounts from household products, such as americium from smoke detectors, thorium from camping lantern mantles, radium from clocks and tritium (as neutron moderator) from gunsights. His "reactor" was a bored-out block of lead, and he used lithium from $1,000 worth of purchased[2] batteries to purify the thorium ash using a Bunsen burner.[1]
Hahn posed as an adult scientist or professor to gain the trust of many professionals in letters, despite the presence of misspellings and obvious errors in his letters to them. Hahn ultimately hoped to create a breeder reactor, using low-level isotopes to transform samples of thorium and uranium into fissionable isotopes.[3]

Although his homemade reactor never achieved critical mass, it ended up emitting dangerous levels of radioactivity, likely well over 1,000 times normal background radiation. Alarmed, Hahn began to dismantle his experiments, but a chance encounter with police led to the discovery of his activities, which triggered a Federal Radiological Emergency Response involving the FBI and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. On June 26, 1995 the United States Environmental Protection Agency, having designated Hahn's mother's property as a Superfund hazardous materials cleanup site, dismantled the shed and its contents and buried them as low-level radioactive waste in Utah. Hahn refused medical evaluation for radiation exposure.[2]

added: not a bomb but still cool/crazy as hell
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http://www.ted.com/talks/taylor_wils...n_reactor.html

Embedding is weird, but kid built a nuclear reactor at 14.
 
hodj

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Taylor Wilson is what happens when you give the David Hahn's of the world proper guidance.

Good find bro. Mind blown.
 
Azrayne

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kaosu_sl said:
http://www.ted.com/talks/taylor_wils...n_reactor.html

Embedding is weird, but kid built a nuclear reactor at 14.
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Caliane

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Gavinrad_sl said:
You're the only one who seems confused here. The point of her article is that it is incredibly difficult to get any kind of treatment for a mentally ill person in this country.
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Or more specifically the only help is waiting till death threats come, THEN psyche ward.

Therapy and help needs to start WAY earlier.
Hell, 6month dentist check up, 1 year physical.
maybe should be getting 6month developmental psyche too?

And that is the thing. EVERYONE should be getting this therapy. Not because you NEED it. but because it kills any negative connotation.
 
j00t

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freedom of speech does NOT equal freedom from reprisal. it doesn't mean that i can say whatever i want, whenever i want, in any fashion i want and there's nothing you can do about it. if i walk up to a police officer and tell him i'm going to take his gun and pull the trigger as i'm sodomizing the nearest infant with it... i'm not going to be suprised if he does something about it.

and the problem with EVERYONE getting therapy (btw, in a perfect world i agree with you. we all should see someone on a regular basis) is that therapists and counselors are over worked and underpayed as it is (i know, i am one). people don't WANT to tell you their issues. they don't even want to tell themselves their issues. you give us more work to do and one of 2 things is going to happen. we either wave off people who are in desperate need of help because they aren't saying anything jarring, or we overinflate everyone's problems and start exacerbating small issues until they become big ones.

the reason why it's SOO hard to get someone mental health services is because unless they WANT the help, it's an exercise in futility. it's a waste of time and resources.

no idea how to move past that, but that's one of the bigger road blocks in the way.
 
Kreugen

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Hey dumbfuck, violent threats are not protected under the 1st amendment. Go stand on a street corner and proclaim your intent to shoot the President and see how far that 1st amendment gets you. Then put a gun in your mouth and blow the top of your head off for trolling in THIS thread.

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supertouch_sl said:
why did his mother have high-powered rifles in the house? what a moron.
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She was a "prepper", the kind of people who watch Glenn Beck and Alex Jones.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...-16251468.html

The mother of Sandy Hook gunman Adam Lanza who slaughtered 20 US schoolchildren and seven adults was a gun-hoarding survivalist who was stockpiling weapons in preparation for an economic collapse, it has emerged.

Nancy Lanza was shot four times in the head before her son Adam gunned down young pupils and teachers at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.

Her sister-in-law Marsha Lanza told reporters at her Illinois home that her gun-obsessed relative was part of the 'prepper' movement that fears an economic collapse will lead to a breakdown in society.
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Ever wondered the type of people who buy the survival seeds that Glenn Beck sells. Here you go.
 
mkopec

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Gavinrad_sl said:
Please explain what a 'high-powered rifle' is.

This should be entertaining.
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I thought it was any gun which uses high velocity ammo. Obviously rifles have bullets which shoot at a much greater velocity than handguns. and more velocity means more damage, more penetrating power.
 
Gavinmad

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Cheap Cigar_sl said:
The reason for the petition?
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The reason for the petition is presumably because people are too fucking stupid to realize the government can't (and SHOULDN'T be able to) do that. Also, because people are too fucking stupid to realize that this retardation is exactly what the wbc wants and needs, more attention.
 
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mkopec_sl said:
I thought it was any gun which uses high velocity ammo. Obviously rifles have bullets which shoot at a much greater velocity than handguns. and more velocity means more damage, more penetrating power.
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I believe that's more or less Gavinrad's point. Pretty much all rifles are "high powered". Because they're rifles.

I'm Rich Bitch_sl said:
Ever wondered the type of people who buy the survival seeds that Glenn Beck sells. Here you go.
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It'll be interesting to see if that played in to the shooter's mind set at all.
 
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