I'm sure this has nothing to do with the sick gun culture in Ohio and the terrible ease with which ANYONE can get ahold of a gun.
Today's shootings at Chardon High School were not the first in Northeast Ohio.
Just last week, an 18-year-old Cleveland man sought as a suspect in a fatal shooting of 17-year-old Dena-jua Delaney surrendered to police Friday night.
Police Chief Ralph Spotts said that incident grew out of a fight that erupted Tuesday and resumed Wednesday afternoon in front of Superior Elementary School.The most violent local school shooting happened at SuccessTech Academy in 2007, when suspended student Asa Coon returned to his downtown Cleveland high school and opened fire. The 14-year-old wounded two teachers and two fellow students before killing himself.
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What is the world coming to when a child takes out his frustrations against other children with a gun and shooting them dead.
ReplyDeleteShut up, Julie. Moron.
DeleteI like what Julie had to say, and I agree with it.
DeleteSchools (gun-free zones) are effective.
ReplyDeleteIt took SWAT an hour to get there. Had this boy continued shooting, I wonder how many more kids would have been killed or injured. Being a gun-free zone, no one was able to stop him. I guess they should have put up an extra "no guns allowed" sign, surely that would stop someone from breaking the law, or, maybe gun free zones don't reduce violence.
ReplyDeleteTheir blood is on your hands Mike, you stupid Italian fuck.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, it's fair to disagree with Mikeb, but your comment is out of bounds. With the recent change in comment policy here, we're trying to show that a rational discussion is possible without limits on what gets said. Why can't you participate in that, instead of resorting to curses and racism?
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Anonymous, I don't think this happened because the school was a gun free zone. I think it happened because the youthful shooter came from a home and a culture that, one, taught him that a gun is the answer, and two, gave him easy access to a weapon.
DeleteI blame his dad or older brothers or mom, I blame the Ohio gun culture and by extension I blame the rest of you gun-rights apologists.
So the reports that this child was bullied has nothing to do with it? That appears to be the primary cause of this incident.
Delete@ Greg Camp...Very good. I'm glad Mikeb has dropped moderation and makes it easier to post here. But it's people like Anonymous who can screw it up for everyone else.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the shooting today, it's a sad affair. We'll just have to wait and see how and why it happened. I saw it on the news today at noon, but very few facts were known then. We need to wait for the facts to come out before we pass judgement.
The news reports late this afternoon suggested that the shooter was a kid who had been bullied. That says a lot. We do too little to stop the low level of violence that goes on in our schools, and we do too little to give children a genuine feeling of achievement so they value themselves. The gun in this case, as in many others, is a symptom only.
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