School shooting in Kentucky

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Edit: It was done in Bemidji Minn., not Kentucky. 8 are confirmed dead, 2 of which are the shooters grandparents.

[Edited on Mar 21, 2005 by MB_Arkestra]

harsh. so harsh

Bad link.

It's a shame how violent America has become.

Story link from CNN.com

Ok...it's sad and a real tragedy that this happened. But here's how the rest of the thread is going to go.

GUNS ARE BAD!!!!!1111ONNE

NO!!! GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE; PEOPLE DO!!!!111one

YARGH...LET'S RESOLVE NOTHING AND GET PISSED AT EACH OTHER ON THE INTERWEB!

I'm not trying to be a dick. I wish to god this didn't happen. This kid probably needed some help and the grandparents should have had their firearms more securely kept. Mentally unbalanced + easy access to guns = not good.

I just heard on the radio that it's ten dead and fifteen wounded, two critically.

Tis better to be a porn owner than a gun owner.

Make love, not war!

It's never girls that go on shooting sprees.

When are people going to learn, don't tease the loner... but before this thread turns into an anti-gun thing, I'm interested in hearing if people can think of a realistic way that schools and communities can spot kids who are not socially connected and are targets for teasing and bullying, and try to make do more to insure that they don't feel pushed to the point where they act out in a homicidal way?

And to the above post, I think that girls tend to kill themselves instead of others when they become disconnected targeted by bullies....

America was never violent before?

Before I get jumped, lemme just say that what I meant by that is that, the world has been a violent place for a long time.

But you know what? That's neither here nor there, people died, it's a fucking shame.

[Edited on Mar 21, 2005 by FridgeMagnet]

[Edited on Mar 21, 2005 by FridgeMagnet]

A kid being socially disconnected and aloof is no indication that they're potential murders. Lots of kids are ostracized and bullied but very, very few of them would ever seriously entertain the idea of taking out their frustrations on people with a gun.

I shudder to think what might have happened to me had there been some witch hunt for weird kids when I was in high school.

We know nothing about this kid at this point.

Yes, it's a logical assumption to think he was an ostracized "loser", but how do you know he wasn't just a fucking psychopath? He shot and killed his grandparents, for Christ's sake!

Shit. The radio's just come on and informed me of that.

My thoughts go to the victim's families.

those poor people. all of them. the dead, the injured, the shooter, the community. this is so terrible.

How many more of these tragedies before you guys ban guns?

LOL


are you serious

Dude, we've been trying to. We're better at banning books, to be honest...

These things have lost all ability to shock me.
My reaction lately just seems to be: "Another one? Oh well."

The kid snapped...if it wasn't a gun, it would have been something else. Do a google search on the number of grandchildren who have whacked their grandparents, or killed some peers. This made the news because it was fast and sudden and deadly, but it would have played the same if he used a V-8 rather than a .38.



[Edited on Mar 22, 2005 by Michael_DeSade]

Is that true? I've only ever heard of boys shooting up schools, but the way the media works I don't count that as definitive evidence.

I have a feeling we'll always be more frightened of our Government and the world at large than of the kid down the road.

It's sad but i am not shocked.

Actually i am. I am shocked this dosen't happen more often. After columbine they didn't crack down on bullies they further ostrasized the geeks by making them go to therapy and so on to be more "normal" and to take it.

I'm sure we can all agree that preserving the status quo is very important.

It's aweful that the kid snapped and couldn't cope with the stress but he shouldn't be villified. We should try to learn why the fuck this happened so we can change the system and prevent it from happening in the future.