Yet ANOTHER school shooting...

[sandorski]

Damn, I have a niece going to HS < 10 miles from there.

 

[Mixolydian]

If I was named Jaylen, I'd shoot people too.

 

[BoomerD]

If I was named Jaylen, I'd shoot people too.

:hmm: Sounds like a job for Tommy...

 

[BUTCH1]

Yeah, don't scroll down too far. What has been seen cannot be unseen D:

Man you ain't kidding!, that poor basketball, I hope her kids didn't get a hold of it and use it after it's "journey"!

 

[madoka]

Targeted murder, not random act of violence. Does not qualify as school shooting like the ones we saw before

http://news.yahoo.com/two-killed-four-wounded-washington-state-school-shooting-004837708.html

Two of the wounded were boys and two were girls, hospital officials said. The boys, 15-year-old Andrew Fryberg, shot in the head, and 14-year-old Nate Hatch, shot in the jaw, were both in intensive care at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle on Friday night, a spokeswoman said.

Local media reported the boys were cousins of the shooter. . .

Outside the vigil, 9th grader Bella Panjeli said she attended a different school but was friends with one of the female victims, calling her "a beautiful girl and so, so sweet."

She also said Fryberg was in an ongoing dispute with his cousin over the victim's affections.

"I heard he asked her out and she rebuffed him and was with his cousin," Panjeli said, adding that she learned of the connection after talking to the victim's family and friends. "It was a fight over a girl."

 

[Mai72]

Yeah, don't scroll down too far. What has been seen cannot be unseen D:

I'm sure the actual shooting and aftermath are on LiveLeak.

 

[Mixolydian]

:hmm: Sounds like a job for Tommy...

Trying to turn me into a homicidal maniac...you should be arrested!

 

[BoomerD]

Trying to turn me into a homicidal maniac...you should be arrested!

Wouldn't be the first time...:whiste:

 

[RGN]

where were all the good guys with guns?

Well, you see, there were some incidents with some folks that were mentally unstable that were able to access firearms. So, society created "gun free zones." These "gun free zones" keep everyone that is logical, sane and law abiding from possessing firearms where they are prohibited. (*waves at Canada*)

I'm not sure where the answer really is. Even Chicago's Safe Passage program is failing. We certainly can't go all 'Better off Ted" and assign a cop to follow around every child.

Not to mention the whole, "who really trusts the police" issue that has been beaten to death by the media this summer.

Perhaps its not weapons that are the issue at all. Maybe its a social problem, where parents aren't doing their job. Maybe, just maybe if folks were held responsible for this type of activity we would see less of this.

 

[Mixolydian]

We need to be institutionalizing more people, imprisoning more people, and executing more people.

 

[BoomerD]

We need to be institutionalizing more people, imprisoning more people, and executing more people.

:thumbsup:

 

[Red Squirrel]

Clearly the answer to all these shootings is more guns. Teachers should be able to carry guns and students as well. The principal and other administrative staff can also have mini tanks they can scoot around the halls in. They'd have to use wheels though, tracks would add lot of black marks to the floor and the janitor would not be too happy.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Well, you see, there were some incidents with some folks that were mentally unstable that were able to access firearms. So, society created "gun free zones." These "gun free zones" keep everyone that is logical, sane and law abiding from possessing firearms where they are prohibited. (*waves at Canada*)

I'm not sure where the answer really is. Even Chicago's Safe Passage program is failing. We certainly can't go all 'Better off Ted" and assign a cop to follow around every child.

Not to mention the whole, "who really trusts the police" issue that has been beaten to death by the media this summer.

Perhaps its not weapons that are the issue at all. Maybe its a social problem, where parents aren't doing their job. Maybe, just maybe if folks were held responsible for this type of activity we would see less of this.

winnar.

the irony of this situation, or any time people report that the sky is falling from gun violence, is that crime in the US is the lowest it's been in 2 decades. but you'd never know what the way things are reported in the media.

that being said - i think it is a societal problem. i think a lot of it is parents not doing their job. i think we coddle kids too much. everyone is a special, delicate flower these days. i think it's partly the fact that teachers and schools have little ability or leeway in disciplining students.