Breaking news: another school shooting

[MiamiensisWx]

This is just utterly disgusting. Sick for sure!

[brunota2003]

if you think about it...Wednesday - School shooting, Thursday - Guy shoots and kills police officer and K-9...causes three schools to go on lock-down, Friday - prinicipal shot and killed, Monday - at least 3 dead...thats just scary how many shootings that occur next to or in schools over the past 4 work days...yikes...I'm half expecting my school to be next...we almost had one last year, a guy got caught with a handgun in his trunk after he threatend to "kill all the black people in B lunch" because of something that happend...these shootings need to stop...prayers to those affected...

[Cyclenall]

Does anyone else see a pattern here? There are way too many school shootings occurring in a short period of time in North America. The best thing is for the media to stop reporting these all together for at least a few years. Yes, we won't know about them but in the long run there may be much less of these horrific crimes in general.

[wxmann_91]

You cannot be kidding me. Utterly disgusting and deplorable.

[Miss Mary]

Found this FOX article with recent and not so recent school shootings. On another thread an S2K member asked if anyone remembered the string of school shootings in the late 90s. I do. I had regular talks with my daughters. I told them to report any suspicious activity or talk of guns. It was escalating back then. Not only that, but you'd read about in home accidental shootings. A friend or cousin found the parents gun. It wasn't supposed to be loaded but it was and the kids were only playing with it. I went thru so many scenario's back then, wht not to do, what to do. And then it did all die down. Now I fear it's beginning all over again. I just don't know that there's an easy answer. Perhaps, just locking the doors to schools would be a start. Have an employee posted by the front door. You could only enter if you had proper ID and you went thru a metal detector.

Here's the article. A very chilling list of shootings.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,217102,00.html



Mary

[Miss Mary]

I just realized my suggestion wouldn't work for current students at a school. Unless the admin. would want to have all students reporting for the day to walk thru metal detectors first. That would slow the start of the day way down. My idea was for outsiders, who come back to the school with revenge in mind.

I think we're all grasping at straws here and trying to make sense of another tragedy. Sadly, I don't think we'll ever make sense of it.

Prayers going out to this Amish community tonight and to the victims' families. Finally, to those fighting for their lives right now. Let's pray they pull thru.

[cycloneye]

Here is a photo of the 32 year old man who did the killing spree at that school.

[Ptarmigan]

That's horrible. I remember those string of school shootings from 1996 to 1999 before Columbine. What has this world come to?????? Three school shootings in a week. Even with those school shootings in the late 90s, they did not happen within a week.

[GalvestonDuck]

He's 32 and he supposedly did this as revenge against something that happened twenty years ago? Twenty years ago, he would have been 12 years old. He would have been about the same age as some of his victims. God only knows what happened when he was 12, but it was no excuse for this.

[dizzyfish]

Those we my exact thoughts last night when I learned his age.

[Jim Cantore]

Too bad he didn't suffer for it. I'd like to know where his head was at shooting children.

[dizzyfish]

I just received this in an email from a friend. You have to see this - it is unbelieveable.

Scroll down to the bottom under Uniform Policy and click on "see a video".

http://eogreen.huensd.k12.ca.us/info/pa ... ntents.htm

[j]

I just received this in an email from a friend. You have to see this - it is unbelieveable.

Scroll down to the bottom under Uniform Policy and click on "see a video".

http://eogreen.huensd.k12.ca.us/info/pa ... ntents.htm

If that isn't eye opening.

[Miss Mary]

j - I have to respecfully disagree with you. It's eye opening in that, we have to face these possiblities. In 2006. Which is very sad to realize.

School is simply not at all like it was when we went to school. Think back - did you worry about a classmate bringing a gun to school or reading a threatening note on a bathroom mirror? The only pranks I recall were rude kids, talking back to teachers, usually only once and then getting paddled, smacked on the hand with a rule, sent to the principal's office or all of the above. Or students pulling the fire alarm, just to get out of class. The only fear I ever had was from specific bullies - never boys, just mean girls. Not constant, just occasionally.

I just never felt nervous at school, like it is now. My kids are much more aware of anger issues (not personally) and making sure they treat others right. How treating others rudely, day in, day out can have tragic results. And they notice if something feels suspicious.

I'm done now.

Mary

[beachbum_al]

Times have changed since we all were in school...well most of us. We didn't worry about who was coming to school with a gun because it was just unheard of. Our school worried about who was bringing the pot and hiding it in the locker and the football players showing up in mini skirts protesting the girls wearing them and they couldn't wear shorts to school.

Now days students and teachers have to fear for their lives. Yes our schools here have dress codes but it doesn't mean that someone couldn't sneak a gun or weapon in. If they wanted to do so they could in a heartbeat.

As parents we must teach our children to not make fun of other students and tease them. Most students will just let it roll off their shoulders and not think a second thought but then there is the few kids that take this teasing to extreme and the end result is what happens in the past few weeks. It doesn't mean that the victims are responsible and no child or family should have to go through this.

Also we need to talk to our kids more often. Discuss what is bothering them and let them know that they can talk to us about anything. And I mean anything! Our schools here have a hotline number that the kids can call if they suspect something is going on. It is anonymous and no one knows who is reporting it and it has in the past work in the State.

As for what happen in this Amish communities saddens me because the Amish are free loving people and would never do anything to hurt anyone. It sickens me what has happen and honestly it does make me fear for my own children who are in school now. School is suppose to be a safe place where students can learn and grow and not fear for their lives.

If this could happen in an Amish community it can happen anywhere!

[j]

Food for thought:

When there was Prayer in School, there were no guns.

Mary - check your pm

[GalvestonDuck]

I hate to say this, but it's possible more victims could die -- given the method in which he shot them (gunshot wound to the back of the head) and given the fact that many are probably on life-support. I afraid more will be taken off life-support.

[Extremeweatherguy]

It is scary what this world seems to be coming to! I can only pray that this is the last shooting for quite awhile, but in my gut I have a feeling it will not be. Everyone should be extra careful in school over the next few weeks, and parents with kids in school should be extra cautious too. Seems like a good time to make sure everyone has a "school shooting safety plan" ... just in case.

[Yarrah]

Just a question: how easy is it for a teen to get a gun in the US?

[j]

Sad but true, we need education for how to deal with situations such as this, or we need to completely lock down our schools. Given the weapons and perceivable actions this scum was going to take, a "Flight 93" mentality might have been in order. At some point in this ordeal, it had to become obvious what his intentions were, but with no plan in place, the poor kids were sitting ducks.

I'm sure if given the chance all over again, these students would have massed together and at least attempted to take down their killer. I know some of you will disagree with me, but had 8 or 9 of these girls turned on the killer in a coordinated and rehearsed defensive plan, some or all of these kids may be alive today.

I know its a stretch, but I find myself reaching, grasping at ways to combat in school terrorist attacks. Perhaps these girls didn't have a chance, we won't know till survivors (if any) tell their story. He was a lone gunmen, and you have to think that the possibility to take him down existed.

As I sit , ready to hit the "submit" button, I feel what I have written is very nearsighted. I just wish some action could have been taken to prevent this. Pre-emption,.