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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
 
I'm sure we'll have many different versions of events before we really know what happened. This is fodder for the CT'ers. :)

Ranb
 
Local media is saying that all kids are unharmed, and one shooter (white guy with an AK) has been arrested.
 
Another Crazy White Male, and probably a Christian too!

/sarcastic political-opposite

Nessie said:
This report and others I looked through say an armed man went into the school and got a secretary to phone the media and the police, during which he fired off some shots. No one was hit, the school was evacuated and he has been arrested.

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2013/08/20/official-suspect-in-custody-in-elementary-school-shooting/
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More recent reports have the guy being white, for real.
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/0...very-learning-academy-near-atlanta-92989.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats...hief-we-don-t-have-a-motive-for-shooting.html

Reports are still mixed on his age. NPR and Daily Beast put it at 19 years old.
 
The Word Hero Gets Overused, but not here

This case touches on so many issues. The woman sounds like a true hero and what she did was outstanding.

"Georgia school employee hailed as 'real hero' for talking gunman into giving up"

In my mind it also touched on the issue of serious mental illness and how sometimes the line between not acting out and acting out can be so thin, which is another reason it's a good thing this woman was there. Hopefully he'll be able to get treatment.
 
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Appears there is more than one way to stop a bad guy with a gun

Did I miss a thread on this incredible thing? I don't see one yet.

I just love this woman. She's my new favorite best hero.

911 Tape Shows Just How Amazing Ga. School Clerk Antoinette Tuff Was Under Pressure
Yesterday, the world met Antoinette Tuff, the amazingly level-headed school clerk who turned into a one-woman crisis management team when 20-year-old Michael Brandon Hill showed up at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy dressed in black and armed with an AK-47 on Tuesday. Last night, we got an even better idea of just how compassionate and calm under fire Tuff was thanks to the full recording of the 911 call she made while the terrifying situation unfolded.

The tape, at more than 24 minutes, is long and full of stretches of silence—but it's incredible to listen to and worth the time.
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This woman is what a hero looks like.
 
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Natural Born Skeptic said:
This case touches on so many issues. The woman sounds like a true hero and what she did was outstanding.

"Georgia school employee hailed as 'real hero' for talking gunman into giving up"
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Couldn't agree more. I read that story on the android CNN app this morning. I thought it was extremely inspiring for that woman to be able to react to the gunman as a troubled human being rather than lash out with hostility and scorn at someone bringing a firearm into an elementary school with an unclear but possibly deadly motive. An inspiring act that helps to shows traumatic events are sometimes carried out due to untreated mental illness as opposed to an innate desire to personify evil and wreck havoc among the innocent. A truly momentous act delivered in the face of an extremely volatile, dangerous, and indeed life-threatening situation.

An immense feeling of relief definitely washed over me as the event took place a mere two hours from where I currently reside. It always saddens me when innocent people become casualties for the tragic lashing out of a broken and extremely troubled individual.
 
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MaverickPLM said:
Couldn't agree more. I read that story on the android CNN app this morning. I thought it was extremely inspiring for that woman to be able to react to the gunman as a troubled human being rather than lash out with hostility and scorn at someone bringing a firearm into an elementary school with an unclear but possibly deadly motive. An inspiring act that helps to shows traumatic events are sometimes carried out due to untreated mental illness as opposed to an innate desire to personify evil and wreck havoc among the innocent. A truly momentous act delivered in the face of an extremely volatile, dangerous, and indeed life-threatening situation.

An immense feeling of relief definitely washed over me as the event took place a mere two hours from where I currently reside. It always saddens me when innocent people become casualties for the tragic lashing out of a broken and extremely troubled individual.
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You reflected my feelings precisely. I also agree with the "personify evil" comment. That's how a lot of people want to look upon these types, but I truly think a lot of human beings can go "either way", and it's the support they receive along the way from other human beings as well as institutions/systems that can help push them one way or the other.

This woman may well have been the push on this day that helped to reach the sane part of him and prevented a tragedy. I only wish I could be hopeful that he'll receive long and good treatment going forward (in an institution of course), but I suspect our system will be much more intent on just keeping him in prison for as long as possible, with minimal mental health support.
 
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