school shootings

The first ten posts in this thread have been moved from the "today's mass shooting" thread, as they contain information more suited to this thread. Source here. Highlights:

This deserves a thread of its own, not just to be lumped in with "Today's Mass Shooting". BBC. The Gradiaun. The governor of Texas said just 2 weeks ago (at the NRA conference): Now he is saying: More than twice as many American students have died this year as American soldiers.

That's not fair. Conspiracy theories are arrived at by taking the evidence available, deciding on a conclusion, and working backwards to a convoluted plan. Starting from motive and working forwards isn't allowed because then the conspiracy theory obviously doesn't make any sense. Dave...

Shooting at Florida school - reports - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43066226 Hopefully initial reports are wrong and there won't be fatalities.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/23/us/kentucky-high-school-shooting/index.html Only two dead out of 19 at least. Kentucky I would have thought you could produce better shots than that, being beaten out by Connecticut so handily?

Seems to have been a murder suicide. Shooter killed a teacher & an 8yo student. Another student is wounded. https://www.google.com/amp/ktla.com/2017/04/10/8-year-old-boy-dead-after-elementary-school-shooting-in-san-bernardino-police/amp/

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/28/us/south-carolina-elementary-school-shooting/index.html?adkey=bn It is "still breaking"

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/24/us/washington-school-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 Stupid dictator principal that needed to be taken down (or whatever)

Well not actually in the schools thought it seems to be linked to at least one of them, and caused several to go into lockdown. Link.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27556097 "A series of drive-by shootings in the Californian city of Santa Barbara has left seven people dead, US police say. The shootings took place near a student campus belonging to the University of California-Santa Barbara. The suspected gunman...

CNN Headline News is reporting a school shooting in Atlanta GA. Seems an armed man walked into a school and made some demands. All of the students were taken out the back to a more secure location. Reports are that shots were fired, no word on who fired them. Ranb

References to this case have popped up here and there on JREF, but I think it warrants a closer look and a dedicated thread. This 18-y-o kid in Texas made a sick joke on Facebook about shooting up a school. Somebody in Canada reported it to the cops in Texas, who arrested him and held him in...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/31/price-middle-school-shooting_n_2592672.html?1359662406&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009 "Authorities say that multiple people, including a 14-year-old, were wounded, according to Fox News." Can we get a General School Shooting thread please?

The facepalm is not strong enough for this one: http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/12/21/nra-blames-violent-entertainment-for-shootings-eca-responds The nerve, indeed. It's just... the hubris is so mind-blowing as to be surreal. Not only has every study shown no causal link between video game...

As I noted elsewhere I am pulling out of the threads on gun control because of my inability to control my emotions on the issue. But the Newtown tragedy is still an important and developing event. So I was hoping we could keep appraised of what is going on here and keep the gun control talk...

CNN reporting a school shooting. How dare they mention guns might be involved. Do they just want us to turn into the USSR with guns banned and everyone forced to worship Obama? That's my prediction of a reaction on at least one gun forum before the day is over. So the question is: why are guns...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/02/us/california-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/27/shooting-reported-at-ohio-high-school/?hpt=hp_t1 I wonder what the rest of the world think of the US when they see events such as this on the news.

Given the lack of a Second Amendment over here, I wonder how these Teens going ape get their weapons in the first place. All in all, another sad story about guns.

... in Kauhajoki. Several people are injured, no definitive news about casualties yet, except for the shooter himself who is said to have committed suicide. Not a full year after the Jokela school shooting, which claimed 9 lives (including the shooter himself).

Very intriguing article in the LA Times, How Gun Makers can Help Us: This places the responsibility on the gun companies, instead of lawmakers. It doesn't infringe the Second Amendment. What do you think about this? Is it worth a shot? (haha, sorry)

What a coincidence, eh? Exactly one year after the VT shooting, another Idiot praises his second amendment rights: http://us.cnn.com/?refresh=1 Oh - Happy Birthday, Pope. May God force you to take a stance on that.

Two hours ago, it's reported in Norwegian media. At first, they said there was only one casualty. Now there's seven. The 18-year-old shooter put a video on YouTube two weeks ago, where he hints at what he was going to do. ETA: His YouTube Video named Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7038532.stm I don't really have an opinion on gun control, nor much knowledge on if it works, but when you see things like this you have to ask, are humans competent enough to own a gun? I'm perplexed as to why humans, with a history of crap...

This is an interesting example of how you sometimes get very different versions of a story from different sources. Pretty much everybody agrees on the basic facts: A group of teachers from Scales Elementary School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, staged a fake gun attack on their students during a...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/19/18451/0971 Couldn't have said it better myself.

It would appear that some people just can't wait to blame the VICTIMS and the 'wussification of the US', are we sure we know why this happened, are we sure that a rush to judgement during the mourning period. I have my opinions but dancing on the corpses seems premature...

Scumbag D'Souza uses the tragedy to further his political goals: http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/18/where-is-atheism-when-bad-things-happen/10#comments

According to Hollywood Interrupted a Co$ internal memo has called for Scientologists to descend on VT and distribute "The Way To Happiness," their anti-psychiatry book. Internal memo linked here. I saw this article originally linked on Boingboing.net. First they make a mockery of 9/11 Ground...

On day after the tragic murder of 33 people, Ken Ham (of Answers in Genesis) tries to score social points by blaming the shootings on... http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2007/04/16/how-could-loving-god So Ham incorrectly ties science into the claim that life is considered cheap. Then...