TX - Police respond to reports of shooter at Santa Fe High School, 18 May 2018

[EuTuCroquet?]

OT, probably

Meanwhile, in Georgia ...

BREAKING: Multiple people shot at Mt. Zion High School, police say

https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law...igh-school-police-say/fKmGV5rP6tZA1QthMTtyCN/

 

[Tippy Lynn]

rssf

it doesn’t have to be and it shouldn’t be.

true!!

 

[CARIIS]

One young woman shot was his ex-girlfriend.

wow just wow

that was the gut at the beginning

 

[Betty P]

Not really. That statistic is very misleading but does a great job in getting people riled up.

CNN says 22 school shootings so far

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/02/us/school-shootings-2018-list-trnd/index.html

A non-profit that tracks school shootings says there have been 40 school shooting incidents so far

https://www.abc15.com/news/data/sch...when-where-each-shooting-has-occurred-in-2018

Any school shooting is horrible and unacceptable, regardless of body count.

 

[MIKAYOYO]

What is the actual number then?

It’s not 22. But that’s not the point. Of course one is too many.

 

[Snoopster]

Not really. That statistic is very misleading but does a great job in getting people riled up.

So please provide the correct statistics. We'd be happy to hear that there were a few less school killings. Winning! (Here in Canada, we aren't immune, however so few of our fellow citizens have major ballistic weapons, that we don't lose as much sleep.) These kids are being killed. What do you propose??

 

[Betty P]

OT, probably

Meanwhile, in Georgia ...

BREAKING: Multiple people shot at Mt. Zion High School, police say

https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law...igh-school-police-say/fKmGV5rP6tZA1QthMTtyCN/

1 dead, 1 injured near a high school graduation.

Both people shot were adult women, Channel 2 reported. One was shot in the leg and the other was shot three times. It is unclear if they were attending the graduation or not.

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

Right? How many dead students does it take to get one riled up?

I mean, well, how many are “legitimate,” then? [emoji6] ... Nothing to see here!! Lol

How bad does bad need to be for it to count?

Here are just 10 super awful ones since Columbine (15 dead). These numbers don’t even include the wounded and maimed in these attacks, the surviving victims. Unfortunately.

2007 Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Va. — 33 deaths

2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Conn. — 27 deaths

2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Fla. — 17 deaths

2015 Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, Ore. — 10 deaths

2018 Santa Fe High School, Santa Fe, Tex. — 10 deaths

2005 Red Lake Senior High School, Red Lake, Minn. — 7 deaths

2012 Oikos University, Oakland, Calif. — 7 deaths
2006 West Nickel Mines School, Bart Township, Penn. — 6 deaths

2008 Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Ill. — 6 deaths

2014 Marysville Pilchuck High School, Marysville, Wa. — 5 deaths

https://www.axios.com/by-the-number...ine-91efddc3-adcd-4991-bd5c-59938db7bc2f.html

 

[CARIIS]

Mike Pence:


He looks well-rested.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...aduate-rips-pences-response-to-texas-shooting

brilliant blue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Snoopster]

I am starting to ponder if something had happened recently

he was on the football team that is a social skills entitiy

apparently he was on the honor roll --



he picked the art class for a reason I would think

my first gut was relationship but then when I heard about bombs that faded but now I learned none of the bombs had anything meaningful in them

so basically it was a scare tactic

the art class is somewhat haunting imo

did his posts take a sudden dark turn ?

Onset leading to today kinda feels like it was in response to something as opposed to brewing


just wondering

honor toll and sports and mass murder do not seem like the classic recipe????

ANyone know when this school had prom??

on a lighter note i went with two girls and the man who bought me out -- talk irony!

COntinuing with a touch of levity I just noticed that Don Lemon is in england ( I would suppose for the wedding _ I thought i bet he begged for the assignment what gay guy does not love a big ceremony - hey that is just what went through my mind

i crack myself up at times - literally

still chuckling at the thought about Don !!

There is nothing "light" here. These children were massacered.
So glad that you are "chuckling". Not!!

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

There have been at least 14 school shootings in Texas (not counting the UT tower shooting), all since 2001:

https://www.statesman.com/news/stat...-since-tower-shooting/pdX1aBkUi4kR3NUVqxdbJP/

 

[MIKAYOYO]

So please provide the correct statistics. We'd be happy to hear that there were a few less school killings. Winning! (Here in Canada, we aren't immune, however so few of our fellow citizens have major ballistic weapons, that we don't lose as much sleep.) These kids are being killed. What do you propose??

When one hears the term school shooting they immediately think of this situation. These statistics are taking into consideration any shooting near a school that caused a lockdown whether a suicide, nearby gang activity etc. I’m surely not the only person that watched KHOU today where they clearly discussed this every thirty minutes.

 

[Jennifer17]

There have been five this year in which there were fatalities, 31 people in all. I have not included accidental discharges (one from a 12 year old girl) or ones in which people were only injured or the ones where a person was killed but it was personal.

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

In April, they walked out to protest school shootings. Today, they were victims of one

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/18/us/texas-school-shooting-walkout-trnd/index.html

 

[bluesneakers]

It’s not 22. But that’s not the point. Of course one is too many.

So what is the point?

 

[CARIIS]

Well, Greg, the recent terror and death from the Austin Bomber was pretty bad, too. When are you going to do your part to stop it?

Suggestions?

Anyone know any more about friend and details of the relationship?

Wonder if he was physical with her??

Imo we also need to know about parents and siblings.////////

Wonder if he followed Austin intensely?

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

“Sad update. @KPRC2Phil has confirmed Cynthia Tisdale, a substitute teacher at Santa Fe High was killed in today's shooting. We've also learned a student, 17-year old Chris Stone, was killed. @KPRC2 is only releasing names of victims, identified by family.”

https://twitter.com/kprc2aaronep/status/997653563651260416?s=21

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

From FBI Houston’s verified Twitter account:

“A Family Assistance Center will be open tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Aldersgate United Methodist Church located at 13217 FM 1764, Santa Fe, Texas 77510. Resources will be provided for victims and victim families. @SantaFeISD”

https://twitter.com/fbihouston/status/997628919150010368?s=21

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

Official statement from school district: https://m.facebook.com/SantaFeISD/posts/2071547169595068

 

[SeesSeas]

Another day, another school shooting. I have no words that will add anything productive to the discussion.

Instead I will share a couple of articles.

This is a good article from a few years back in the New Yorker about how school shootings spread .. goes into quite a bit of depth. I recommend it for anyone trying to get their head around why these incidents keep happening.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/thresholds-of-violence

This is another in-depth article which gets into the issue of people in the community paying attention to warning signs.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/mass-shootings-threat-assessment-shooter-fbi-columbine/

Yes, very good article:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/thresholds-of-violence
October 19, 2015 Issue

Thresholds of Violence
How school shootings catch on.
[...]
The problem is not that there is an endless supply of deeply disturbed young men who are willing to contemplate horrific acts. It’s worse. It’s that young men no longer need to be deeply disturbed to contemplate horrific acts.