Two injured children so far, will get a link shortly.

Edit: Link http://abcnews.go.com/US/middle-school-s...d=21526542

Ugh! This needs to stop.

(01-14-2014 01:05 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Ugh! This needs to stop.

I know, I don't understand the fetish in shooting at schools. Maybe people are doing it for publicity but there's other ways to get around that.

One of the kids' name was Liz Parker. She actually died, until her class mate Max Evans rushed by her side and saved her. Liz does not yet know that Max, along with his sister Isabel and their friend Michael are really "not from around here". Roswell Sheriff Jim Valenti is going to give a press conference later today.

Hmm... sounds awfully familar.

They should put up more signs. This guy obviously didn't know he couldn't bring a gun on campus.

How many more times do we have to see this until someone does something about it?

(01-14-2014 02:41 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  How many more times do we have to see this until someone does something about it?

I wish I knew the answer. Any of us that have kids could be the next ones to see this horror, I have 3 in an elementary school, and one in a middle school.

(01-14-2014 01:37 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  One of the kids' name was Liz Parker. She actually died, until her class mate Max Evans rushed by her side and saved her. Liz does not yet know that Max, along with his sister Isabel and their friend Michael are really "not from around here". Roswell Sheriff Jim Valenti is going to give a press conference later today.

Hmm... sounds awfully familar.

Are you being sarcastic or are you talking about the car wreck where the firefighters saw the angelic figure save the girl from the crash?

Media might ignore this one since a shotgun was used. It does not fit their spin cycle.

Crime study: Handguns, not 'assault rifles,' used in most mass shootings

Media hype about mass shootings in America has fostered a myth that the killings are on the rise and that an assault weapon ban, expanded background checks and greater attention to the mentally ill will curb a rampaging epidemic, according to an authoritative and exhaustive study by a noted criminologist.

Instead, according to James Alan Fox, author and criminology professor at Northeastern University, mass shootings have remained stagnant over 34 years, averaging 20 a year, and few were committed by the type of berserk psychos portrayed by the media.

“Public discourse is grounded in myth and misunderstanding about the nature of the offense and those who perpetrate it,” he writes in the journal “Homicide Studies.” He added: “Without minimizing the pain and suffering of the hundreds of those who have been victimized in recent attacks, the facts clearly say that there has been no increase in mass shootings and certainly no epidemic.”
http://washingtonexaminer.com/crime-stud...le/2542118

(01-14-2014 02:41 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  How many more times do we have to see this until someone does something about it?

I suppose your answer for "doing something" would be to confiscate all firearms? Do you think that is an answer?

(01-14-2014 02:41 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  How many more times do we have to see this until someone does something about it?

(01-14-2014 04:02 PM)Crebman Wrote:  

(01-14-2014 02:41 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  How many more times do we have to see this until someone does something about it?

I suppose your answer for "doing something" would be to confiscate all firearms? Do you think that is an answer?

Another failing of public schools, but fitbud won't give up his leeching.

(01-14-2014 04:02 PM)Crebman Wrote:  

(01-14-2014 02:41 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  How many more times do we have to see this until someone does something about it?

I suppose your answer for "doing something" would be to confiscate all firearms? Do you think that is an answer?

I don't believe in banning firearms.

(01-14-2014 04:08 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  

(01-14-2014 04:02 PM)Crebman Wrote:  

(01-14-2014 02:41 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  How many more times do we have to see this until someone does something about it?

I suppose your answer for "doing something" would be to confiscate all firearms? Do you think that is an answer?

Another failing of public schools, but fitbud won't give up his leeching.

I love it. This guy does something like this and you are going to blame the public school system for it?

I've been teaching for nearly thirty years and in that time I haven't been directly involved in any gun incidents. The overwhelming majority of teachers can say the same thing. Statistically speaking school is one of the safest places our children can be.

I did stop the bathroom sale of a "bow gun" about twenty years ago. There wasn't a threat of violence just business being conducted in the wrong setting. I broke up a fight involving a couple of gang members that included a knife about ten years ago. I can recall two students over the years that I feared were mentally unstable enough to use a gun against their classmates or the staff.