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[vicarz]

Warning - I'm going to be trite.

So there was another shooting by a kid with black nails, MM shirt, and a trench coat. Once again, despite the high number of weapons and ammo, the casualty count was low. Perhaps this was a record low - the only fatality was the kid himself! Why can't murderous rampaging kids, with all this weaponry, with all the influence of video games, all of that anger, actually do some damage!? If the initial reports are correct, the first shooting victim was someone the kid bumped into on his way out of the bathroom, who in response punched the black-fingernailed kid in the face. I think shooting someone who punches you in the face is understandable - overkill, but if you had a choice of all the kids in school to shoot, and you're carrying a gun - I'd go for "the guy who just punched me in the face." On the other hand, I listened to WHUR this AM, and the djs were running down the shooting victims as black, with the shooter white. It's all about race? Ugh. They also noted that he had recently been in a fight with a kid because he said he didn't believe in god, that he worshipped MM. The djs were pointing out the race and religion issues (read between the lines and understand their tone was "no god, evil." The kid reacts to discipline and bullies, but they'll blame goth, religion, and racism.
(note - sounds like a dumb-ass, I'm not supporting him, just saying the finger-pointing is pathetic) (but I do support shooting bullies)

Sine wave - dad was on a ventilator again, now he's off again. I gave his ugly wife more grief about swapping germs - she ignored them, well no, she actually kissed him more to show her disdain for those stupid rules and my comments. The nurses don't seem to care. It would be kinda cool if my dad survived and she died from an antibiotic-resistant bacterium.

Comments

[ex-dasboot.livejournal.com]

How many kids were in your high school? Mine had 2 thousand in the freshman class alone. I'm really not sure how an underfunded, understaffed school is supposed to know all of this about each and every student. Maybe this one was different, but I doubt it. It just seems like all of these warning signs are this crystal clear only in hindsight. Tons of kids go through the exact same thing yet don't resort to murder.

[ashbet]

I think my graduating class was around two thousand . . . not entirely sure, though.

When a principal gets an explicit warning from more than one student that a child who is known to be at-risk is making death threats, it is their responsibility to act on it in a prompt and professional fashion. I don't buy that she was "too busy" to meet with at least one of the students who came to her with their concerns.

That qualifies as a "crystal clear warning" in my book.

-- A <3

[desiringmachine.livejournal.com]

actually this school was different, before this happened the only thing that would have gotten it into the news was their graduation rate compared to others in the area - 94% vs. 55%. this was a model school that was designed for more individual attention to students and their success. i guess they're learning something, but apparently not much about how it's not good to punch people in the face when they accidentally bump into you.