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Just as crazy as you putting the ? on the inside of the "...but hey, when all you have is spelling, grammar, or punctuation....well, we know about you...
Well, again, according to Wikipedia -- and IF my math was right as I just mentally added the figures -- the fact is that they ARE on the rise, unless Wikipedia is wrong --
1960's: 18 school shootings, 44 deaths, 64 injured (108 total casualties)
1970's: 30 school shootings, 37 deaths, 73 injured (110 total casualties)
1980's: 39 school shootings, 49 deaths, 162 injured (211 total casualties)
1990's: 62 school shootings, 88 deaths, 144 injured (232 total casualties)
2000's: 63 school shootings, 107 deaths, 137 injured (244 total casualties)
2010 - 3/20/18: 149 school shootings, 162 deaths, 251 injured (413 total casualties)
Oh, and to repeat I said earlier, the above list is NOT 100% accurate, as they included the Cokeville Massacre, in which the deaths and injuries were due to a BOMB, not one or more guns!
But whatever the "real" truth is, my opinion remains that even one murder in a school is one death too many.
The population has kind of went up too since the 60s. The ratio is much more accurate.
Amazing that some can't see past their political agenda. No question that the resource officer was a brave and heroic person. He faced down a shooter and stopped him. Whether or not the shooter was targeting only the people he shot, the officer didn't know that. The officer was shot at himself and risked his own life to protect the students at this school. Why can you not credit this officer with a heroic action instead of trying to minimize what he did?
I did not say anything at all about the resource officer. My comment was restricted to the motive of the shooter.
For the record, I am very happy that the officer was there. We still do not know whether the shooter was targeting only the students who were injured or not and thus we cannot say that he prevented more from being injured.
Since banning and criminalizing one's lawful possessions and activities because of the actions of another is indeed a form of punishment. Then by your way of thinking:
It's unfortunate, but this is just the way it is.
But you know something? If we followed your way of thinking every God damn one of us would be in jail by now.
P.S. Yeah, I'll bet you own a coupla' Glocks.
Happens in schools all the time, or at least it did when I was attending. I'd behave myself, but other students would misbehave and the teacher would cancel recess for the whole class. I received no reward at all for being good. I was punished whether I was good or not, just like at home. So, what is the point of following the rules? But it's just another way of teaching children to accept losing something because of the actions of others. Schools indoctrinate students in various ways like this.
I guess it's a good thing you didn't get your way prior to this shooting or there would be a lot more dead children. You do realize that an armed school resource officer stopped the massacre, right?
We do not know whether the shooter planned a massacre or not. How about waiting for the investigation before drawing that conclusion?
I find it interesting how quickly (relatively speaking) this story is dying out in the MSM. Could it be because the shooter was taken out by a person with a hand gun (as opposed to an AR-15) and, so, the anti-NRA narrative wouldn't be as strong??
I find it interesting how quickly (relatively speaking) this story is dying out in the MSM. Could it be because the shooter was taken out by a person with a hand gun (as opposed to an AR-15) and, so, the anti-NRA narrative wouldn't be as strong??
It was on my local news all day plus msnbc. What channel were you watching
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