Courtesy of the AP:Since Parkland, there have been two school shootings. One, a teacher had a gun. Two, a 7th grader had an assault rifle. The teacher hit no one, the 7th grader, at the last second, killed himself instead. Just FYI @Emma4Change, @davidhogg111 Words of the 7th grader below: pic.twitter.com/nRiuysiwUt— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 2, 2018
A seventh-grader who shot and killed himself inside an Ohio middle school restroom last week was planning to shoot others at the school before changing his mind at the last second, a police chief said Thursday.
The boy, 13-year-old Keith Simons, came out of the bathroom holding a semi-automatic rifle just before classes began and then abruptly went back inside and shot himself in the head, said Jackson Township Police Chief Mark Brink.
Police don’t know why Simons didn’t carry out the attack and probably never will, the police chief said. “We should thank God every day, whatever made him change his mind,” Brink said.
Investigators found messages on his cellphone that showed the teen had been planning an attack for at least a week at Jackson Middle School, near Massillon. He also showed admiration for the two students who carried out the Columbine High School shooting in Colorado nearly 19 years ago.
“I’d hurt and destroy something bigger but my schools an easy target,” Simons wrote in one message found on his phone.
“I want to leave a lasting impression on the world,” he said in another message written days before he took the.22-caliber gun to school on Feb. 20. “I’m going to die doing it.”
The messages indicating he was planning a school shooting began a week earlier, the same day that 17 people died in the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Brink said.
That tweet up above is beyond chilling, and it reminds us that these school shooters often have no expectation of surviving their attack, so the idea of having armed teachers, or even more police, on site does not indicate that it would deter any of them.
I think it is hard for any of us of a certain age to remember what it was like to be an adolescent, but since I work with them all of the time I can tell you that they experience EVERY emotion more profoundly then we do as adults.
So crushes can quickly turn to obsessions. Depressions feel like the end of the world. And anger is all encompassing.
Most of us will navigate these emotional extremes without doing anything too disruptive to our lives.
But provided access to a deadly firearm, and suddenly a momentary emotional crisis can metastasize to an explosion of violence which can end multiple lives.
I hate when people call these shooters "evil" or "crazy."
No, they were likely mentally unstable or emotionally upset. Or a combination of the two.
In other words they are treatable just so long as you do not have to navigate a hail of bullets to reach them.
Death-by-Teacher for suicidal school shooters is such a glaring and obvious response to Trump's madness about arming teachers.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds just like a company trump would hire, they don’t pay their subcontractors and cook the books-our tax dollars being wasted for trump’s stupid wall that no one wants.
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APNewsBreak: Questions surround Trump's 1st wall contract
By MARGERY A. BECK - The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) A tiny Nebraska startup awarded the first border wall construction project under President Donald Trump is the offshoot of a construction firm that was sued repeatedly for failing to pay subcontractors and accused in a 2016 government audit of shady billing practices.
SWF Constructors, which lists just one employee in its Omaha office, won the $11 million federal contract in November as part of a project to replace a little more than 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) of a current fence with post-style barriers 30 feet (9.1 meters) high in Calexico, California……
…..It remains unclear why SWF was listed on the bid for the wall contract instead of Edgewood, New York-based Coastal Environmental Group, which online government documents list as its owner.
Thomas Anderson, an Omaha lawyer who initially represented a subcontractor that sued Coastal in 2011, said he wouldn't be surprised if it was an attempt to dodge scrutiny of past legal problems. He says such a practice is relatively common in construction projects……….
Make that THREE school shootings, with the incident in Michigan yesterday. That shooter only killed his parents, but he left campus armed and could have opened fire on others. The NRA and the complicit Republicans are destroying this nation, all in the name of fetuses and the 2nd amendment.
ReplyDeleteturns out that he used his father's gun, a part time police officer.
DeleteAlso they have him in custody.
Yet the media encourages people to bully. We can’t ridicule or condemn people when adults and professionals give a terrible example for how to treat people. Many have said that until the national press no longer bullies (basically as long as there are immoral people who pen tabloids) shit won’t change.
ReplyDeleteIf that means obliterating all comment sections, it needs to happen.
You are a bit scrambled in your thinking.
DeleteEliminating all comment sections? ALL comment sections? Censoring the truth? Because that is what eliminating ALL comment sections would do.
Uh Nope.
Suck it up buttercup.
Sarah Palin did not birth TriG.
Not bullying, just the truth.
5:46 AM - yeah, you can always tell when "many have said" rears it's head. BOT!
DeleteDelete all comment sections! Nancy French had to turn off the pathetic patheos, Facebook pages and c4p do the same, Daily Mail at times as well.
Can't stand the heat? Then stop posting bullshit that we all know to be false and easily proven to be.
That is ridiculous. Don't like what you read? Stop visiting that blog. Don't like a certain persons comments on fb or insta- block'em.
Delete3:49 AM - let's all tune into Fox, RIGHT?
DeleteThanks for the laugh!
It's the pro Palin troll spreading manure.
DeleteDevin Nunes says Stephen Colbert is a danger to the nation because of his criticism of Nunes.
DeleteI say Colbert is doing his job, which is more than I can say for Nunes.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nunes-on-colbert-danger_us_5a9b5d71e4b089ec353af434
"“This is the danger that we have in this country,” Nunes said when Fox News’ Neil Cavuto asked how he felt about the jokes.
“The left controls not only the universities in this country, but they also control Hollywood in this country, and the mainstream media, so conservatives in this country are under attack ... they attack people who are trying to get to the truth,” the head of the House Intelligence Committee added."
Oh, I think we know who is trying to get to the truth.
It is a sad commentary when we rely on late night comedians to defend and protect our country.
There is more to the story. Look at his cell phone, computer etc. Has he been on a social media site? Look at who and where he communicates. Did someone or something encourage this? Is his family involved in his life in a negative way? I think many kids and adults are being pushed by the disinformation and kgb tactical baloney. Kinda like Issa recruiting tools. Sneaky liddle pricks and pussies playing with people. The Social media and reality tv crowd became putins don john hacks and attacks. Set them up and reel them in. A shiny fish.
ReplyDeleteHow did a middle school student get a gun and ammo? There is an adult who is LIABLE for this. I’m sick of kids accessing weapons, if you can’t/won’t/don’t keep your “innocent” guns safe from CHILDREN, you should be in prison.
DeleteSo it turns out Donald Drump is not worth the shit in his toilet along with the 666kkkushners@parkavenuehell2comedumbstein.
ReplyDeleteDid you hear Bill Maher last night - "Kushner is too stupid to be a jew. I want to see the birth certificate. Bet he was born in Alaska and his birth name is Jared Palin."
DeleteCleaning coffee off my computer screen now.
This makes me so sad.
ReplyDeleteThis child was lost.
Why? Nature? Nurture? Indoctrination? Genetics?
I hope he gets another go around on earth with less pain.
And there you go.
Delete"I'll go down in infamy."
He hardly gets a mention.
And no guns in the home. e.g. karma doesn't make him an American next go 'round.
DeleteI’m glad the kid changed his mind, but it’s still so sad that he killed himself. A 7th grader with access to a gun like that is insane. If he hadn’t had the gun, he may have been able to get some psychological help.
ReplyDeleteNot even sure treatment is required. Depression with or without treatment does pass. AS an adolescent many decades ago, I was also extremely depressed. I suffer from SADDS and had a schedule that got me on the bus in the dark and off the bus five minutes before dark in the evening. One parent was dying of cancer, the other taking care of him. Money was very tight. I slept a lot and fantasized about doing 'something' to be remembered fro. I think some of those things were violent. But, there was nothing more destructive than some usual household stuff around - kitchen knives, hammers, etc. I was far too small a kid to do any real damage with those. NO GUNS. After a year or so, my father died, I found some friends and went off to college. If there had been guns in the house - I was a smart enough kid to have planned and used them.
ReplyDelete...His parents, Misty and Chad Simons, have not commented, but the family appears to be defending the teen despite the revelations he wanted to be a mass shooter.
ReplyDeleteHis aunt Destiny Singleton insisted on Facebook: 'My nephew was not evil, he was a sweet, loving and caring boy. I will defend my bub until the end.
'He was a good boy no matter what.'
Another relative, Ally Rebbekkah Lyn Yarnell. added: 'I love you so much Keith. We all love you so much. The family will always stand by you because we all new how amazing you are in your own little ways.'
An obituary, which has since been taken down, described Simons, who was born in Germany, as 'a caring, quiet and gentle person' who enjoyed practical jokes, archery, Nerf Battle and video games.
Yet his family's recollections of the teen don't seem to square with the angry young boy who was planning to murder dozens of people.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5455017/Teen-took-gun-school-mass-killing-killed-himself.html#ixzz58hhUTbEr
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5455017/Teen-took-gun-school-mass-killing-killed-himself.html
He was probably a kind, gentle sensitive boy that cracked over the mean spirited, caustic and bullying atmosphere of middle school and the U.S. in general.
Deletehttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/racial-harassment-in-schools-uptick_us_5a8db498e4b03414379cae76
"The U.S. Department of Education’s civil rights division saw a significant increase in the number of complaints it received regarding racial harassment in schools, including post-secondary institutions, in 2017, according to data the department provided to HuffPost. The increase represents the biggest rise in this category since at least 2009, the earliest consecutive year for which we could find publicly reported numbers in this category.
The number of racial harassment discrimination complaints the department’s civil rights division receives has ebbed and flowed over the last nine years. It did not receive more than 600 complaints until fiscal year 2017, when the number climbed to 675, a nearly 25 percent increase from the previous year. Previously, the number had bounced between a low of 362 and a high of 577. "
This is just racial harassments. But our Deplorable in Chief has opened the floodgates. It's open season on anyone that doesn't conform. Bullies are emboldened. And at that age the look for a weakness and attack.
This poor kid probably couldn't take it any more.
He wanted "followers". On Facebook?
There used to be an age restriction on Facebook but no way to enforce it. So these kids have Twitter and Facebook to amplify their attacks and in turn beat themselves up for not having enough followers or not being popular enough.
It's vicious.
The nastiness in this country is outstripping the goodness, kindness and gentleness.
I lay that at Trump's door and the Republicans that enabled him.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/georgia-elementary-school-staffer-accused-calling-students-ners-asking-want-shot/
ReplyDeleteT-his>"“The lunch aid (sic) asked my daughter how would she like to be called a ‘n****r’, and told her to look up the word in the dictionary. She went on to say if my daughter comes to another side of town, she would be SHOT,” Hawkins explained. “She then asked my daughter, and another group of kids, if they would like to be SHOT!”
“I told them I am NOT comfortable with my child being in the same building as an adult who felt comfortable enough to ask her if she would like to be SHOT let alone taunting her to look up the ‘N-word’ dictionary,”'
BLM!
This is only the parents' side based on a 9 year old's version.
DeleteKids lie.
There simply isn't enough information to know exactly what happened.
Public teacher "Dayanna Volitich suggests Muslims be eradicated from the earth, believes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories ... and teaches middle school social studies."
ReplyDeletehttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/florida-public-school-teacher-white-nationalist-podcast_us_5a99ae32e4b089ec353a1fba
Our children of this nation are crying out on both sides of the gun, and no one takes them seriously. The NRA want money. The politicians was money. I mean every one has a want regarding this gun issue but no one is listening as young people are calling out. It's a sad thing when the old won't heed the young.
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