The Mess At Home

[57Brave]

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. —

The DeKalb County schoolboard chairman says a there is an active shooter at McNair Elementary School.


http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local...ntary-s/nZTRH/

[goldfly]

uh, thought this thread would be about this:



“They saw Christopher go by, and one of them said: ‘There’s our target,’” Ford said. “The boy who has talked to us said, ‘We were bored and didn’t have anything to do, so we decided to kill somebody.’”

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/thr...-1226700172461

[57Brave]

uh, why would you think that?

[goldfly]

uh, why would you think that?

cause it seems way more of a mess for a story to start a thread about over a story of someone that didn't kill anyone. seems like a stretch and a half to call that a "mess"

[Tapate50]

uh, thought this thread would be about this:



“They saw Christopher go by, and one of them said: ‘There’s our target,’” Ford said. “The boy who has talked to us said, ‘We were bored and didn’t have anything to do, so we decided to kill somebody.’”

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/thr...-1226700172461

Wow. The quotes from that article are jaw dropping. Yeah, nothing to see here folks!

[thethe]

Pathetic. Our society is disgusting.

[57Brave]

Numerous police are at the school and SWAT was there for a time. Thurmond said the suspect is a man in his mid-20s and didn't have an obvious connection to the school.

DeKalb County School Board Chairman Melvin Johnson told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (http://bit.ly/16t14iF) there were reports of shots being fired inside the building that houses students from pre-kindergarten to fifth grade.

"We're in the process of reuniting the children with their parents," said Mekka Parish, spokeswoman for the DeKalb County Police Department. "We're just trying to calm the nerves of parents."

Jonessia White, the mother of a kindergartner at the school, told AP she talked to her son's teacher shortly after most students were evacuated. White said the teacher told her they were still inside the building shortly after 2 p.m.

"When I hear he's safely out of the building, I'll be OK," White said, adding that she learned of the shooting when a friend called to say helicopters were hovering over the school.

[goldfly]

[jpx7]

Pathetic. Our society is disgusting.

If true, it's nothing new: the story reads a bit like Leopold & Loeb, sans the Nietzsche.

[57Brave]

Atlanta (CNN) -- A man who opened fire at a Georgia elementary school Tuesday was armed with an AK-47 "and a number of other weapons," police said.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/20/us/geo...hool-gunshots/

"This thing came out for the best," said Dale Holmes, DeKalb County's assistant police chief. "Thank God no one was hurt -- not even the suspect."

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except there was a nut armed with war weapons inside an elementary school with a ax to grind.
Who? Michael Brandon Hill, 20 (white male for those that endorse racial profiling)
What? The shooter barricaded himself in the school's front office
When? Aug 20, 2013
Where? Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy
Why? His motives -- no one knows. The WHY here is why was he able to arm himself?
Why do we have another unhinged person with war weapons in one of our elementary schools?


My guess is most of you will look at this and think -" nothing to see here" unless - you have a child in an elementary school

[Tapate50]

Thanks for the info Tapate50. I had no idea AK-47's were cheap and readily available. I would have thought the opposite, but seeing I don't own a gun (but don't care if others do), I don't go out and price them a lot. I just know what I see in the Cabela's ads.

I think "they are fun to shoot" is all that good of a reason for ownership and I don't think I'm anti-fun. But again, if it's not illegal, I'm not going to bark about it. I'm just wondering about the utility of the weapon other than fun and possible mayhem.

Wondering the merits of such is not crazy. In Ga, you don't have to have a bill of sale if purchased from another owner, but I'd bet some good money it was stolen . They usually are.

[Tapate50]

I've got to arch an eyebrow at the guy who suggests that free and easy purchase of assault rifles is a freedom that shouldn't be limited also saying "criminals will just find a way."

arch away, but toward whom?

[Julio3000]

arch away, but toward whom?

Anyone who suggests letting Chip Caray walk into a house that had lines of cocaine laid out on every available surface, then throws up his hands and says "oh, well, drug addicts are going to find a way" when he discovers Chip in the house practicing his cold opens at 2.5X speed and humping the furniture.

[Tapate50]

Anyone who suggests letting Chip Caray walk into a house that had lines of cocaine laid out on every available surface, then throws up his hands and says "oh, well, drug addicts are going to find a way" when he discovers Chip in the house practicing his cold opens at 2.5X speed and humping the furniture.

Chip has ****ty parents.

But I haven't suggested that either

[Tapate50]

Suspect is mentally ill per news today.

[57Brave]

world is filled with mentally ill people - but it seems the only place in the world armed mentally ill people go into schools and threaten lives is USA .


guns and race aside
Why / how do we deserve that distinction?

[VOLracious]

world is filled with mentally ill people - but it seems the only place in the world armed mentally ill people go into schools and threaten lives is USA .


guns and race aside
Why / how do we deserve that distinction?

We're the only place in the world with your brand of liberalism. thethe got it right. The culture sucks. You and your ilk are responsible! Deal with it.

[57Brave]

will you be more specific?

[Julio3000]

The problem: easy access to guns.

The cause: liberals.

Yep. I'm interested to see the reasoning behind this one.