A student at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colo., opened fire at the school, then killed himself, officials said Friday.
At a televised news conference, County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said the student entered the building armed with a shotgun looking for a specific teacher. At least one student was injured in the shooting, he said. Hospital officials reported one student in critical condition.
A second student sustained minor injuries, but authorities were unsure if it was related to the shooting.
The latest attack comes as the nation prepared to commemorate the first anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children were killed by lone gunman Adam Lanza. Six adult educators also died in that shooting before Lanza committed suicide.
Centennial is roughly 15 miles south of downtown Denver and less than 10 miles east of Columbine High School in Littleton, the scene of a shooting rampage in 1999, when two teenage shooters killed 12 classmates and a teacher.
This school is also within fifteen miles of Aurora which is where James Eagan Holmes killed 20 moviegoers and wounded 70 more.
For whatever reason Colorado has been the location for a number of America's horrific gun murders, and yet after the Sandy Hook shootings, when two Colorado lawmakers voted for stricter gun laws to protect their constituents, they lost their jobs.
I wonder if this will be enough to get Colorado to stand up against the NRA and finally do something for their community to protect them against gun wielding lunatics?
And what about the rest of the country in general? Have we finally had enough?
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ReplyDeletemark1955 • 14 minutes ago −
FALSE FLAG!!! Another friday shooting! This time at a school in Colorado with the "Shooter" dead and 2 students wounded and just as we are going into the 1 year anniversary tomorrow, of that school shooting in Connecticut. How convenient can you get. sarc
This is beyond BULLBLEEP!!! The odds have to be astronomical! Start noting and documenting all of the decrepancies and call BULSHE on everything. Well how convenient for Dianne Feinsten and company to get this "Gift" in order to start the drumbeat again, right on the anniversry of Connecticut and just in time to try and Cram down some stalinist Gun control right before Christmas vacation for congress!!!
A question to ask beyond the more than coincidental timing of the shooting to the 1 year anniversary of Connecticut and the beyond astronomical odds of another Friday shooting, just how the heck did the police just happen to get there so fast? Almost like this was another Drill and the whole thing was acted out and rehearsed beforehand, probably because it was. The police just happened to be on scene as in so many of these other cases. This whole thing stinks to High Heavens!!! Get ready for Feinstein and company all weekend and for some draconian gun legislation, with the repubs caving just as they are going off on Christmas recess. How convenient.sarc
i'd personally like to kick the dog fuk outta mark1955
DeleteThey're all nuts over there between their tin foil hats, loading up comment sections and every online poll there is to make the twat look more popular than she is. If that was MY fan base, I'd be embarrassed....but, then, look at their golden calf. EXCUSE me, "savior."
DeleteTypical. These ppl have their talking points and can cut and paste. They own Bristol Palin and her ghostwriter feeds them.
Deletehttp://www.patheos.com/blogs/bristolpalin/2013/12/trump-weighs-in-on-saeed-obama-didnt-even-ask/
otlset Vhj • 14 hours ago −-- the incompetence and uncaring attitude of Obama and Hillary in their disgraceful 'handling' (or not handling -- avoiding and lying about it) of the Benghazi debacle the liberals and media keep trying to sweep under the rug. I am one of those who refuse to let this incompetence that resulted in the horrible deaths of the ambassador and others go away. I want Obama, and Hillary especially, to be held accountable for their malfeasance that led to this atrocity.
yaya • 2 days ago −
Obumer will let them keep the pastor so he can plan some kind of fake rescue and then lie somemore how he savd him.....He's too late, everybody is wise to his fake life with his hate for all of America!!!!
Carolyn • 2 days ago −
this is nothing new, with this present administration. I hate what this man, called the president is doing to this country. (no capital letter P because I do not respect him) We will pray for this poor poor man, and his family
Bill589 • 2 days ago −
Thank you for bringing this up Bristol. Maybe enough public pressure on Obama will make him do the right thing. Apparently, he doesn’t have personal principles motivating him to do so.
Like Bristol has a cogent thought in her head. Lower IQ than Mommie Dearest.
DeleteI was living in Colorado when Columbine happened.Moved from there six years ago.There are too many people who believe the NRA bullshit,and there have been recalls because of the whole 2nd Amendment game those ass hats play.You get away from the Denver/Boulder areas,and Colorado is pretty gun totting and rural,so sadly, I wouldn't bet on too much change anytime soon.
ReplyDeleteMy company headquarters is in Colorado and I travel there every few months for business. I agree that so many, many, many people in Colorado are just plan unhinged wingnuts, and so proud of that. Several fundagelical cults hold "leadership" camps there for their young people, and fundies all over the USA ship their teens out there to be brainwashed at those camps.
DeleteAnd the Palinbots will accuse Obama of a conspiracy.
ReplyDeleteMy dad was born in 1892 and grew up in Littleton, Colorado. I was never close to him. One of the few things I do remember about him was a story he used to tell and laugh about. When he was about 14, he got his first gun, a .22 rifle. The first thing he shot was the family dog. Many years later, in the '50's, my uncle (still living in Littleton) took the 17 year old neighbor boy deer hunting in the mountains. Although they were both wearing day-glo vests, someone shot at them, first killing the neighbor boy with a shot in the head and then at my uncle, with a shot in the arm. I don't know why I'm telling this, other than the fact that Littleton, Colorado represents a certain senseless violence in my mind.
ReplyDeleteTennagers/young men - in one of the most developmental stages of their lives - see violence as the solution to their problems - maybe living in a country, perpetually at war, with political pundits using gun rhetoric against their political rivals might be a cause of some of the thoughts of violence.
ReplyDeleteWhen those who promoted violence - are held responsible for the attack on Gabby Giffords - that left many dead - maybe things will change - otherwise - crickets.
And then we have more pundits calling out the first family as "staged" - lets generate more hate against the President and his family - a great way to generate more violence among the RW haters.
You ask logical questions, Gryphen, but gun lovers aren't logical or rational. To them, the slaughter of innocents is irrelevant. They don't care about people. They only care about guns.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the boy suffers from affluenza, and needs our compassion and rehabilitation? [snark]
ReplyDeleteIt's snark, but it's a scathing indictment of money influencing justice.
DeleteWe try to stand up them but there just are too many Rethuglican jackwagons in this state, with piles of outside money from even more jackwagons coming in.
ReplyDeleteGive it a decade--most of the Rethuglicans will have dementia and be in Depends.
~Canuck~
On the eve of another tragedy THIS happens. They just had an update. The kid was focused on killing one teacher in particular. That teacher immediately went outside the school in the direction of the shooter, and may have saved many lives by giving them more time to lockdown and save students.
ReplyDeleteWe need to keep this conversation going, we need to keep the topic alive until something's done to change the laws and regulate guns. Silence equals Death.
This is a horrible tragedy, just like any senseless murders. Pointing out, though, that all these shootings happen in gun free zones.
ReplyDeleteDespite the recall, and resignation of elected officials, Colorado still has some of the toughest gun laws.
There has to be an honest discussion, not just pandering to the citizenry to "ban guns"!
If the death of multiple 6 and 7-year-olds wasn't enough to change gun laws in this country, I don't think there's anything that will.
ReplyDeleteAt least not while the GOP still has any control over Congress.
No proposed laws would have prevented the Newtown shooting or the Arapahoe. Thehighest gun violence are the areas with the strictest gun control laws. Even in the UK, gun violence and gangs are rampent. Several areas have the Bobbies carry guns now!
DeleteGoing out on a limb here, but maybe the draft needs to be rethought. Young men and women are angry...so much going on and emotionally unprepared, under-educated, availability of drugs, availability of guns, etc. Things will only worsen if there is no gun control and the continued lack of mental health. I personally grew up in a household without a gun...........I hope I am not the only one.
ReplyDeleteThe news reports that the shooter came from a religious family and was opinionated... Can't help but wonder if that had anything to do with it. Maybe the teacher he was after made him question his religious opinions?? Hmmmmm.
ReplyDeleteI read one report that the teacher was the Debate coach, another that it was the Librarian. I suppose the teacher could have been both. But haven't been able to find any other reports to confirm it.
DeleteNor anything that the teacher left the school to lure the shooter out. Just that he left hoping without a target the students would be safe from the shooter.
The teacher, Tracy Murphy, was the librarian and speech and debate coach.
ReplyDeleteMurphy was targeted because he suspended the shooter earlier in the year for threatening to kill Murphy. The shooter wanted to go to the Air Force Academy and thought the suspension would ruin his chances, thus his life was ruined.
He apparently did get a shot off at the Murphy as he was leaving the campus. He also had two Molotov cocktails, one of which he set off.
A classmate described the shooter as very opinionated and also as having been bullied.
Another student reports that the shooter was either demoted or kicked off the debate team. Also that he had a combative personality.
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