Shooting underway Georgia high school

Thoughts and prayers.

A school shooting in Georgia? Who woulda thunk…

At least one in custody, multiple injuries.

Watching CNN now, and there seems to be a resolution and the school is no longer on lockdown. There are injured people, but they don’t believe there is a loss of life.

They don’t have much more to report than that.

This is very shocking. Georgia has schools?

MSNBC says two dead, at least four injured, according to what their sources were told. Added "This is preliminary information and subject to change."

I'd normally press the prayer emoji, but my fibro is acting up.

It's good they banned all of those dangerous books down South.

Price of freedom, I guess.

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Where was the good guy with a gun?

'guns don't kill people, people kill people" - my maga relatives. "If that's true, why do we arm our military with firearms?" - me

Guess all those active shooter drills really came in handy huh? Maybe it's time for gun control instead?

Welcome Back Kids! Duck!!

If there aren't at least two dozen casualties then really who cares.

Just another day in the US of A.

This is news ONLY if the shooter is black and the victims are white.

Otherwise, it's a non-event.

Our care and concern only extends as far as we can exploit it politically.

Honestly, this is absolutely horrifying. Again. Thoughts and prayers do nothing no matter what pro gun people claim. If they did, there wouldn't be any of these shootings.

Those poor kids and teachers. And, their parents.

As long as all of those hillbillies had their God-given guns, that all that matters.

Now, reportedly 4 dead and 30 injured.

[quote] reportedly 4 dead and 30 injured.

Do better, school shooter. We in ‘Murica now expect at least 20 deaths.

As long as our taxes are low and our teeth is white.

It’s Ben awhile, I guess it’s because school has been out.

The day’s not over with R22, and there’s always tomorrow.

This is the 384th mass shooting in the US this year.

Hey, I got shot and nobody shed any crocodile tears for me.

DJT will be wearing a maxi-pad over his ear in support of the victims.

If only Orange Jesus had been in the area, he would have saved the day!

"Trump says he would have run into Florida school without a weapon

President Donald Trump said Monday he would have hurried into the Parkland, Fla., school where a shooting was occurring "even if I didn’t have a weapon""

Dayum didn’t school just start. The spree shooter kids usually wait til like Spring Break. These chirren getting antsyer.

R24 = JLo

If we could stop calling assault weapons "guns" - we might be able to do something.

How long before teachers in GA decide that arming themselves is the best way to 'fight back'?

I'm betting by the end of the week...

Four people confirmed dead. Sad.

I'm sick of innocent school children and their teachers being slaughtered in American schools. I'm even more sick of the false argument that we can't have sensible gun laws because Americans are supposedly endowed with the Second Amendment right to bear arms. AMERICAN CITIZENS HAVE NO SUCH RIGHT.

Here is the actual text of the Second Amendment, as ratified in December 1791:

[quote] A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

One doesn't need to be a Constitutional scholar to interpret what the framers intended by this. A simple understanding of US history at our founding will do. What were the founders most concerned with at our founding in the late 18th century? Maintaining independence from British monarchy rule.

In today's vernacular, the Second Amendment is saying that the US military (well-regulated, presumably, by the legislative and executive branches) is necessary to securing our sovereignty and the right of THE MILITARY'S PEOPLE (i.e., enlisted members) to have arms shall not be infringed.

When citing their so-called Second Amendment rights, the culture war reactionary gun lovers NEVER include the part about the well-regulated militia and protecting the free state. That part is inconvenient to their argument, so from them it's always just "the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Their truncated messaging has been allowed to proliferate for so fucking long now, that this absurd interpretation is widely accepted.

If we want to have any hope of stopping this madness once and for all, we need to challenge the living fuck out of this bastardized interpretation at every chance we get. We need good messaging that re-centers the original definition around being military-oriented, and while government won't "come for your guns" if they're handguns and hunting weapons, there will be rules, and a civil society cannot and will not have assault weapons and sophisticated militarized killing machines in the unregulated hands of ordinary citizens.

TL;DR? The linked video is what former Chief Justice Warren Burger had to say in 1991 about the "fraud" of Second Amendment interpretation. Feel free to take his word for it over mine. RIP to the victims who lost their lives today. 💔

All together now:

Thoughts.

Prayers.

Now is not the time.

Mental health.

Video games.

Good guy with a gun.

Socialism.

Tyrants.

USA! USA! USA! USA!

FREEDUMB!!!

The shooter in custody is a 14-year-old. There had been threats called in this morning that three or four schools would be shot up with this high school being the first.

A killing machine in the hands of a 14 yo who feels entitled to end others lives because theirs was shitty.

R38 The cunt was only 14 this time? Lawd.

I did something I normally don't by going to Facebook and reading some of the comments left regarding the shooting at this school. It was a complete cesspool of insane conspiracy theories and delusional, hate-filled posts. You have people saying this was "planned" to help Democrats win so they can take away their guns, or its a "false flag operation," or its because of Biden/Harris as if school shootings didn't happen before they took office. And then the one's playing "guess the race" of the shooter or implying it was the result of Black gangs. These folks vote and if you don't, you'll just be enabling them to elect people of the same mindset into positions of power and we're all screwed if that happens. Always remember that!

I remember when the worst things one could expect in high school were either getting noogies in the hallway or a eating a second rate pizza for Friday lunch.

[quote] Georgia has schools?

Don't show yourself to be a buffoon.

4 dead.

Georgia has some of the best universities in the nation. And outside of Fulton County some of the best K-12 schools as well. That poster must be Canadian.

At least now we can talk about shootings in a school rather than stabbings in Europe.

A fourteen year old shooter killed four and ruined his life. Did the gun belong to his parents?

What kind of gun?

[quote]President Donald Trump said Monday he would have hurried into the Parkland, Fla., school where a shooting was occurring "even if I didn’t have a weapon""

Did everyone in the room erupt in laughter?

We dropped everything and rushed down in our over-sized trucks and SUVs to collect our Braeleighs and Jaxons and Emmys- creating even more chaos and traffic jams. Our country is a Banana Republic!!

R48 "Hurried?" Fat ass says what? The only time he hurries anywhere is to stuff his gullet with a dozen hamberders.

Delusion after delusion.

Has Marjorie Taylor Greene commented on the matter?

Marj sent prayers via tweet. No thoughts, though, because she doesn't have any.

I know he's probably a Trump loving, fag hatin' MAGA, but shaved head sheriff Jud is making me yearn to bottom.

Those poor kids and teachers. And, their parents.

Fuck them they voted for it, when's the shooting, and how many, let it be many please, you wanted it, you got it.

R51 It’s probably Carmella’s fault.

A traffic cone makes you yearn to bottom, r53.

I'm retracting my lust.

The shooter has been identified as Colt Gray, a student at the school.

R56, it's too bad 3/4 of your dick went to your personality.

[quote]I know he's probably a Trump loving, fag hatin' MAGA, but shaved head sheriff Jud is making me yearn to bottom.

Since mass shootings are becoming a daily thing and as American as apple pie, there's nothing wrong with a little discreet lust now and then when there's a good-looking cop on the TV. Just keep it tasteful.

Shooter is the aptly named Colt Gray.

"Colt"? Named after a firearm. Glorious.

If anyone had any lust for that troglodyte sheriff, all his "Hate has no place in this school, and hate won't win."

Really? REALLY?

*Pssst* [bold]IT'S ALREADY WON.[/bold]

Of course "we won't let Hate win" is Republican shorthand for "We won't let dead shooting victims harsh our gun-worshiping mellow."

R61 meet R58

R51 Cro-Marge was busy filming her next campaign ad where she fires an assault rifle and shoots up Harris-Walz signs.

Apalachee High School sounds like a place where they teach you how to make men squeal like a pig!!!!

Colt Gray sounds like a gay pornstar name.

Colt Gray sounds like a backwoods hillbilly in training.

14 fucking years old. God damn

I'd do him...

SHITS FIRED!

EVERYBODY RUN

THE HOMECOMING QUEEN

HAS GOT A GUN

Surely Momma's Mussy wouldn't quiver for a 14 year old R70.

Let's hope r70 is kidding.

Or named Kevin Spacey.

[quote]Apalachee High School sounds like a place where they teach you how to make men squeal like a pig!!!!

The Apalachee were a now-extinct indigenous people who once lived in the Florida Panhandle.

Thoughts and prayer, y'all!

"Trump: “I will roll back every gun safety provision passed by President Biden if I win”

The Republican Party has made America unsafe. They’re not pro-life, they’re pro-murder."

Jail the shooter's parents. The p.o.s. should never have had access to firearms. The father told law enforcement --to which the shooter was known, as per usual-- he had no access to guns. Liar!

"The teenager accused of killing four people at Apalachee High School in Barrow County was previously investigated for threats about a shooting when he was 13. His dad told authorities he had hunting guns in the house but that his son didn’t have “unsupervised access” to them."

A 14 year old did this. How tragically fucked up.

The father is using the Trump defense-"I hardly know him. I think he brought me coffee once".

They absolutely should prosecute the parents.

Irresponsible parenting and irresponsible gun ownership from the killer's dad. Fuck him. Lock him up, like Michigan locked up the scummy Crumbley parents.

Any word on what kind of gun was used by the shooter?

Sheriff called it an "AR platform-style weapon".

Where is the boy's mother in all this?

Probably making excuses for her son, as well.

R 54 thanks-someone finally said it. Their Trump following politicians/congress/gun lobby promote easy access to guns. No matter how many killed won’t make difference or change anything-doesn’t matter to GOP one bit-GUN SALES PAY THEIR SALARIES!

[quote]Sheriff called it an "AR platform-style weapon".

Thanks 83. I am very unsurprised. I thought it would be one of those guns. How many times is this going to happen before these semi-automatic machine guns are banned? Nobody except the US military should have these kinds of weapons of war. They are designed to do one thing only - kill large amounts of people quickly. That a 14 year old could get his hands on one of these guns is fucking preposterous. The shooter should get the death penalty and the gun owner/s (I assume it's his parents) should spend the rest of their life in prison thinking about what they did.

Fuck this shit.

R87 = R82

Apalachee? I don't know him.

When this was breaking some so-called expert on CNN was saying there was no single thing to point to that all of these incidents have in common. We really are the laughingstock of the world.

They voted for this shit.

Who gives a shit? America voted for guns over kids. This is what happens.

R87 And we all know its going to happen again, sooner than later.

If I was the principal of a school, I'd tell the parents at the beginning of the year: "Look, we will do all we can to ensure the safety of our students, teachers and staff every day, but at the same time, we're also living in a country where there's more guns than people and in this era of regular school shootings, there's a real risk that it could happen here. I can't guarantee that your child will make it home safely, hell, I don't know if I'll make it home because that's the environment that exists in the U.S. and the motivation to act in a meaningful way to confront the issue isn't there yet. Until then, we must learn to live this way."

I forget who said it, perhaps Obama as he teared up while addressing the nation in the days after Newtown, but it’s always stuck with me.

The issues of gun availability, safety, rights, cultural have long roiled American passions and politics but if the massacre of 20 six year-olds and six of their elementary school teachers huddled in the corner of a first grade classroom, decorated with bright Crayon rainbows and filled with tiny school desks, doesn’t change this country then nothing will.

Maybe we could do a “Predict next shooting? What state? How many murdered?’How many injured?’How old was the teenage shooter?” At the very least it’s something to do while we wait for Trump to end democracy…

Why aren't schools treated like airports? Metal detectors, searching bookbags whenever they're suspicious? I guess it's money - or the fact that as a country, we really do NOT care. It's the price of our freedumb, amirite?

r96, some high schools are, I remember back in the early 80's one of the schools on the south side of Chicago had metal detectors. You wouldn't think that an elementary school or middle school would need them.

R96, they do it at some high schools but it’s just not feasible in real life. Schools start at a set time, with hundreds of kids all arriving at a set time.

Trust me, if the Republicans could find a plausible way to funnel money to a big corporation, it would have already happened. They are smart enough to know that making parents’ morning school bus/car pool routine more complicated is an absolute no go.

Oh wait....I'm confused- did the shooter go to an elementary school where the 6 year olds were? Or is the headline of this thread incorrect?

MTG comes " under fire."

Most of the country supports gun control. Only the stupid republcian hierarchy doesn't and the fact that they still win elections shows how corrupt American politics really is. Republicans still control Congress despite Dems winnin20 million more votes!

The kids who were shot and killed yesterday didn't vote for it, R91. The two children killed won't ever have a chance to vote as they died before coming of age. America's kids shouldn't have had to suffer because their parents and grandparents care more for hoarding firearms than them.

"If your Christianity causes you to want to move heaven and earth to legislate against people using IVF but causes you to just say “thoughts and prayers” over school shootings, please don’t ever expect us to believe you are really concerned about God wanting you to “save life.”"

"When Republicans inevitably blame mental health and not the guns for yet another school shooting - kindly remind them that 205 of them voted AGAINST a bill to expand school-based mental health services."

Sheriff Jud was doing it for me.

[quote]Where is the boy's mother in all this?

Just shut up.

This is all a false flag operation to hurt President Trump. I saw the same woman in 5 different outfits!

Okay, white or black? Isn’t that what DL really wants to know? Oh yeah, and if he’s hot…

He's 14. And alive. That should answer both your questions

Kids…

Republicans don't blame lack of mental health services for shootings, they're not bleeding heart liberals after all.

Repugs in states including Georgia say the solution is to arm teachers, fortify school buildings, and increase active shooter drills. Gun control advocates point out incidents like the Nashville school shooter blew threw two exterior security doors and that expecting teachers to respond to an active shooter is delusional:

“The idea that someone who’s protecting students and trying to keep them safe and calm is going to go and rush out and shoot an active shooter is just, it’s so absurd,” she said. “It’s very difficult to stop a homicidal person with an AR-15 and several high-capacity magazines.”

The governor of Georgia sends thoughts and prayers.

When he campaigned for governor of Georgia, Kemp ran on expanding access to firearms. This included a nearly unbelievable ad where the then secretary of state sat with a shotgun in his lap, surrounded by even more guns, while speaking to a young boy about dating one of his daughters.

When he isn’t shilling for the gun lobby, Kemp has been keeping busy downplaying Donald Trump’s attempts to overthrow Georgia’s election in 2020. Last week, he co-headlined a fundraiser for the former president and convicted felon.

Today’s shooting was the 218th shooting at a K-12 school this year.

Guns, guns, GUNS = small dick energy

🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄 cocklets like their orange God.

[Quote] A school shooting in Georgia? Who woulda thunk…

In Chicago we call it a weekend

How did this kid get his hands on an AR-15? Hope the parents are held responsible - but it's Georgia, so probably not.

Your only post, r114?

Thank God the MAGAts are banning books to keep the kids safe.

R114 is the most basic of trolls. Not even worth a potato from the "For Animal Consumption" bin.

R115

Quick question - if the FBI visited YOUR parents house when you were 13 over online threats and guns, how long of a leash would you have been given?

Those teenage brains are not fully formed yet - they're all a bit crazy and the hormones don't help either.

My parents would be on my ass 24/7 until I was 18.

Same here r120

My parents would have monitored my every move. No way would there have been firearms in the home if I'd thugged out and made terror threats!

Jackson County authorities alerted local schools “for continued monitoring of the subject” after the threats were made, though it is unclear whether this included Apalachee High School, where the suspect was a student.

Gray’s family leapt to his defence after police said he would be charged with the murder of four people as an adult, threatening to go “full throttle” on social media.

If I were a part of Gray's family, I'd just shut up immediately.

I went to X to look up “Colt Gray” and I get “posts aren’t loading right now” but otherwise X works fine.

I know that yesterday people were posting a photo of a kid with the same name in Oklahoma.

R114 How has that anything to do with a school shooting in Georgia?

R70 is Bryan Singer.

R112 I'm starting Brian Kemp more than Ron DeSantis.

r117 Ideas are more dangerous than guns.

From article at R123:

[quote] Annie Polhamus Brown, Gray’s aunt, vowed on Facebook that she would “take care” of her nephew after everything he had “dealt with”. “Just check yourself before you speak about a child that never asked to deal with the bull---- he saw on a daily basis,” she wrote in Facebook posts which have now been deleted. [bold] “Y’all ready to see Polhamus blood in full throttle? Nah, I wouldn’t either.” [/bold]

You know, that last sentence sure sounds like another threat of violence coming from this family. Is auntie in jail yet? She just might belong there, too.

R130 Did she have an explanation for how he came into the possession of a gun especially after being investigated by the FBI

Marcee Gray, the mother of the suspect in Wednesday’s Apalachee High School shooting, has a criminal record spanning more than 17 years and four counties, court records show.

The 43-year-old has faced prosecution in Barrow, Fulton and Forsyth counties, accused of domestic violence, drug possession, property damage and traffic violations.

She has also faced civil fraud charges related to a vehicle purchase and was in jail in Ben Hill County as recently as April, according to publicly available court filings.

Sounds like psycho killer Colt's auntie needs a visit from one of the family members of the deceased kids or a parent of a kid precious Colt traumatized, yesterday.

Trash Colt comes from a trash family.

Colt's family seems much worse than Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley's family.

Thoughts and prayers.

OP, NOTHING has been happening to our careers in DECADES.

R94 And he told not one lie. I said it then. Nothing will change. That would have been the event to change something. Instead about 10% of the population believe the shit didn’t even happen. We’re fucked.

meow

R111 more likely going to end up shooting an unarmed kid, or raping a student/coworker at gunpoint.

Makes no difference if the shooter was assaulted, raped, and tortured every day of his life. He'll be tried as an adult, death without burial.

The U.S. is the only country in the world that can sentence children as young as 12 to life in prison without parole. Don't know why MAGAts think this country is soft on crime.

R140 That’s actually not true. No minor can no longer be sentenced to life without parole. See the Supreme Court case. The Beltway sniper youngin got resentenced.

R141 It has been banned in some states, not all.

Supreme Court Rulings

Since 2005, Supreme Court rulings have accepted adolescent brain science and banned the use of capital punishment for juveniles, LIMITED life without parole sentences to homicide offenses, banned the use of mandatory life without parole, and applied the decision retroactively.

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Too bad that "sweet kid" who had "been through" so much didn't kill his parents and/or himself instead of being all entitled and shooting up his school.

[quote] instead of being all entitled

Entitled? Because mom shared her meth with him?

What shooting?

If that's the record the MOTHER has, what kind of record does the father have???

Entitled, in that he felt he could decide he had the right to kill his teachers and classmates.

Sorry, a 14 year-old shooter is indoctrinated. I don’t see mental health issues being the cause here. I see indoctrination.

I still say it’s not just guns it’s these hyper realistic violent video games.

The mugshot at R152: Ok looking kid, dyed his hair strawberry blond. He could be popular in the pokey.

Now I see the problem. The cunt looked like a 22 yr old transvestite in a John Waters film.

Fetching hair color!

Uma Thurman Realness

Come on, people! DL sleuths, we need your superpowers to track down Daddy's record!

This could be Lauren Boebert's family. Remember that Christmas card with the kids all brandishing their assault rifles?

Has this been mentioned? I don't have time to read the whole thread.

The boy's mother has a long criminal history and his father bought the gun for his son as a gift.

Yes on the mother, but NO (at least what i have seen) I did NOT know the Dad bought the son the gun as a gift!

WTAF!!!

CNN is reporting that the shooter's father has been arrested.

Father of shooter has been charged with: 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter, 2 counts of second degree murder, and 8 counts of cruelty to children.

Wow. Finally the principle of shared responsibility in these juvenile cases is being recognized.

In Georgia, no less!

CNN reporting Jake Tapper has been arrested.

Fucking GOOD.

Sounds like the kid's old man abused him.

R167 I always wonder with this level of rage in kids if sexual abuse is in the mix.

Couchfucker weighs in; continues to show America he's an Odious Shitpocket

"JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life,’ calls for better security"

Daddy's goin' down, too.

At this point they might need to arm teachers. The shit just sad yo. I am moving to England.

Vote Red to support Couchfucker, who says this is a "Fact of Life":

"I’ve been a high school teacher for almost 34 years.

So far, my wife, also a teacher and I have managed to survive the rising epidemic of school shootings.

Every loud noise from the hall makes me wonder if my lucks run out. When there’s a crash in the building the kids start eyeing the exits I run through my plan. I wonder if I’ll be brave enough to shelter them from bullets like far too many other teachers have done in the past.

I have 250 teaching days left till retirement. Will I make out? Will my wife?"

Response to Couchfucker's fans, from the Twitter poster linked at R172:

"The “Be a man, carry a gun” crowd has to be the most dim-witted fools I know of.

I would be the first shot the snipers take. Older bearded white guy with a gun? Yep, shoot him first.

I already have to buy everything else for my classroom, now a gun, training, and ammo?

The insurance would be more than I make.

I’m not there to shoot kids, I’m there to teach them how not to become you.

And yes, I’m a gun owner… nobody said they were coming for your guns honey, simmer down."

R169 He's an ice cold fucker.

R151 I'm not a fan of first person shooter games. But they are popular all over the world. School shootings? Not so much.

I love how Vance is a liability to Trump, not an asset at all. His Attorney Power Point Presentation Tour is not resonating with the Deplorables. Oops.

Trump picked him because he licked rancid orange crack real thoroughly. And his middle name is Donald.

They’ll still vote for Republicans so fuck them.

If I were a young college grad I would specifically want to teach at an all black school. It might be failing but you won’t get shut the fuck up by a spree shooter.

How do you afford all the memberships?

Question for any legal commenter; How can they charge the child as an adult and also his parent?

"There were 376 law enforcement officers in Uvalde and 19 children and 2 teachers were killed."

R180 I'm not a lawyer (maybe one can weigh in to confirm/rebut), but my understanding is usually in murder cases the law allows for indicting anyone with even a miniscule role in a murder with actual murder charges. For example, take the Dan Markel murder in Tallahassee. It's not just the Latin King gang member hired to do the hit and who pulled the trigger who was charged with murder. His girlfriend who brokered the hit, and one by one the Adelson family members who hired the hit, are all being charged with murder and other charges. So far, 100% conviction rate for those who've already gone to trial.

I'm not surprised the dad here has been charged. If he bought the gun, if he turned a blind eye to his kid's escalating homicidal mental health crisis, if he lied to law enforcement last year about the kid not having unsupervised access to guns in the household -- YEP, charge this motherfucker with the whole enchilada, take him to trial and let's see what sticks with the jury.

I'm honestly more surprised that they're going to try a 14-year-old as an adult. I'm not saying the crime isn't outrageous and doesn't warrant it, it's just I'd be unsurprised if the kid was closer to 18 (like, 16/17) rather than 14. But, c'est la vie, Colt Gray.

R183 thanks - agreed seems kinda mad they would charge a 14year old as an adult. I would have thought 17 would be the downward limit.

Mugshot of someone who hopefully realizes he's made some huge mistakes.

And he (and his son) are fucked.

Two less DT voters!

"When shots were fired at Trump MAGA Republicans were furious...

When shots are fired at students and teachers, MAGA Republicans: "it's a fact of life" and "We’ve got to deal with it.”

As a teacher I say this is bullshit and it's time for major change."

"“pro-life” should mean that two students and two teachers from winder, georgia are walking into their first classes of the day right now.

but they aren’t."

Bring back the death penalty for minors.

Yes R189, the death penalty will fix this!

I said this on another thread, but I'm willing to wager there was some kind of abuse (physical, sexual, mental) from one or both parents.

Meet the Parents

I am also on the "teachers with guns" trip. Fully trained with some military experience. At the VERY LEAST, metal detectors need to be installed in every junior high and high school. Hell, I thought they had already.

Surely, concerned, upstanding citizens could make that happen?

[quote]I am also on the "teachers with guns" trip.

Who's going to pay for the guns in every classroom? Who's going to pay for the training? Who's going to pay for metal detectors everywhere? Republicans already bitch up a storm about how much money is spent on education. And are you going to fire the teachers who don't want to carry a gun? Because there will be many of them.

You ok will higher taxes for getting those things paid for for every school in America, R193?

Annual training for teachers? Mental health screening for then, so some loon doesn't slip through and we don't hand a crazy bastard a firearm in a classroom full of nine yos?

Or is funding someone else's problem?

R194 Stop being so FUCKING dramatic.

You're acting like what I posted is impossible. Taxes can be allocated to pay for that shit IF the fat cats on city councils and school admin boards actually gave a shit. I'm pretty sure parents would donate and/or raise money for metal detectors--IF it was proposed. And I said nothing about MANDATORY gun-carrying being.

[quote]Taxes can be allocated to pay for that shit IF the fat cats on city councils and school admin boards actually gave a shit.

I would submit that the response to the last 20 years of school slaughterings indicate that they do not, in fact, give a shit.

R195 Like a true Republican. This may surprise you but YES...I am willing to pay higher taxes for that. Why wouldn't you?

R197 CLEARLY. That's kinda what I said by, "IF they gave a shit" The point is these options are obtainable--not impossible.

I've heard the "arm the teachers" argument from the gun people before.

But they don't want higher taxes.

They suggest putting war vets in schools...until you point out a lot of vets have terrible PTSD and a school environment isn't great for those suffering from lost-battle trauma.

Then they suggest people from churches, with guns...until you point out all of the pedophiles at churches.

Then, they'll suggest gun owning parents take turns "if they really care"...until you point out that the parents can sometimes be abusive, crazy, or trigger happy.

It's going to take higher taxes if you want your plan to be implemented, I tell them. NO! They respond. Then, we need to do something about the guns, I say. NO! MY FREEDOMS! They respond.

So, thoughts & prayers (but hands the money) from those pro life capitalists.

I'm a Democrat, dumbass.

Sorry, I meant, ATTAINABLE. Not obtainable.

*hands off my money

R200 So, the problem is not JUST parents with guns who buy their creepy children guns.

What do we do?

Whoever said arm the teachers is a complete dumbass. Texas mandated that every school have a resource officer who is armed at every school. So Texas schools FYI, are some of the most underfunded in the country. Local school districts are now broke having to pay for these officers while being severely underfunded because the governor is holding education money hostage for vouchers. 400 officers couldn’t save 19 kids and two teachers in Uvalde ,Texas so you can take the let’s have more guns approach and stick it up your fucking ass.

The problem is THE GUNS.

LibsofTikTok posted the shooter’s pic from r192 without comment, likely in an attempt to suggest that he’s trans, or at least let her audience do it. Didn’t engage because the Twitter algorithm is already fucked enough.

His mother divorced the father some time back and took the 2 younger kids with her back to her hometown in south Georgia, living with her parents. She's since been arrested more than once down there on drug charges and spent at least one stint in rehab.

According to the father the school he shot up is his second high school. He had to leave the other school due to bullying. He said this school was better in that regard. Looks like he chose the wrong school to shoot up.

You can just look at the boy and tell he has little to no real parental supervision. I would lock my child in his room before I'd let him go out in public looking like that kid does. That disgusting dirty looking long hair, and he wonders why the kid got bullied in school? I'm sorry but my idea of parenting is that as long as you're under the age of majority and you live in my house, you live by my rules as I own the air that you breathe in that house.

The details in the Post article at r192 are nothing short of tragic.

Daddy bought the kid the gun. They'll both be doing time, a long time.

being charged as an adult

The dad is arrested because he bought the kid a gun in spite of the kid saying he was going to shoot up a school. But the Sheriffs Department is falling over itself claiming they investigated the threats but could not find any solid evidence to charge anybody. If so, why are they charging the Dad with buying the son a gun after he made threats? No juvenile should ever have access to an assault weapon but there's no law preventing it as far as I can see.

NOT letting pops off the hook, just laying out the incoherence of our gun laws. Bring back the fucking assault rifle ban.

[quote] Daddy bought the kid the gun.

Not against the law. Juveniles are allowed guns under federal law as long as they use them for 'approved' activities which is basically anything you want with the exception of murdering people.

It's not mental health

It's not violent video games

It's not poverty

It's not abuse

It's not porn

Every civilized country in this GD world has every one of those things. It's two things- our sick gun fetish culture, and the loose gun laws/ weapons of war type guns.

Like always, not a damn thing will ever come out of this. No action after Sandy hook. No action after the shooting at the congressional baseball game. Nothing after Las Vegas, El Paso, Uvalde, etc. And nothing after the next one, which we all know is coming soon.

R193 Are you nuts? Look forward to stories about a teacher shooting an unarmed kid during an altercation, a power tripping administrator brandishing a gun at a tardy student, an increase in sexual assaults and coercion on campus, friendly fire incidents over a misunderstanding, big increase in teacher suicides, etc. We should also consider the mental health effects of turning all of our institutions into ersatz prisons. It's demoralizing enough that Walmart and the pharmacies feel like a commissary.

R216 or a student overpowering a teacher to take the weapon and do whatever - your average fit teenage boy can kick the ass of your average teacher. this is just so fucking stupid.

[quote] Like always, not a damn thing will ever come out of this. No action after Sandy hook. No action after the shooting at the congressional baseball game. Nothing after Las Vegas, El Paso, Uvalde, etc. And nothing after the next one, which we all know is coming soon.

Sadly, we all know this is true. Until voters in high enough numbers -- including in enough red states and gerrymandered districts -- conclude that this madness cannot continue and finally decide to get off their asses and vote for different (i.e., Democratic) leaders in local, state, and federal offices who will actually do something about gun violence....then yes, R215 is right and the slaughter of innocent American school children and teachers in their classrooms will continue.

That our current composition of elected leaders won't move on gun control laws is OUR problem to fix, as VOTERS. That's the beauty of having a DEMOCRACY, with the right to cast a fucking ballot and VOTE, which many of our ancestors fought and died for and a disgusting number of Americans apparently take for granted these days.

As a teacher I say this is bullshit and it's time for major change."

You realize everyone keeps saying this, and nothing happens, nothing will change either, ever.

did no one notice a 14 year with a gun? Aren't their cameras and guards in the school?

there ^^^ It wasn't a concealed weapon

Here's what I don't understand: I read there was a phone call that morning saying there was going to be a school shooting. I'm not sure if it was to that school specifically, or to the district. I read so many articles yesterday, so I don't know which one(s) it was.

Why was school in session in the first place if a warning call had been made that morning??

A 16-year-old student allegedly shot a 15-year-old boy during an "altercation" in the boys' bathroom at Joppatowne High School in Joppa, Maryland, on Friday, authorities said.

Maybe schools should have metal detectors

[quote]Why was school in session in the first place if a warning call had been made that morning??

Schools across the country get threats of shootings and bombings all the time, per CNN Law Enforcement Analyst John Miller. They'd never be in session if they took each one seriously.

First deer

I'm hoping both the father and son spend the rest of their days in prison.

Where do the mom and siblings live?

Will father and son get to share a cell?

R226 Once convicted and hopefully sentenced to death, maybe Georgia can do a reciprocal inmate transfer of the dad to Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, or Utah. Those states have execution by firing squad. Let them use the same AR-15 he bought his son last Christmas, *AFTER* being made aware by the FBI of the school shooting threat his son had made on Discord earlier last year. And, TELEVISE IT.

[quote]Schools across the country get threats of shootings and bombings all the time, per CNN Law Enforcement Analyst John Miller.

Yes, we can't let something like a mass slaughter interfere with learning logarithms.

Black students homeschooling rose from 3.3% in 2020 to just over 16% (February 2023). White students: 11.1%.

One reason is the banning of Black History and all the Critical Race Theory shit. But another reason, is the increase in violence in schools.

I misread the white student percentage - they didn't list it, but said that overall, homeschooling rose from 5.4% at the beginning of 2020 to 11.1% the following year.

[quote]No juvenile should ever have access to an assault weapon but there's no law preventing it as far as I can see.

What about the "you'll shoot your eye out" clause?

(Oh for those days.)

R234 More proof that the GOP is now a cult in which the followers would gladly submit to the whims of their dear leader, while basically giving the rest of the country the middle finger. Their level of hypocrisy is disgusting.