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by yellowrose of Texas on 10 June 2014 - 20:06
TROUTDALE, Ore. (AP) — A lone gunman armed with a rifle shot and killed a student Tuesday and injured a teacher shortly after classes started at a high school in a quiet Columbia River town in Oregon and was later found dead as police arrived, authorities said.
Authorities have tentatively identified the gunman but weren't ready to release the name, Troutdale Police Chief Scott Anderson said.
They were in the process of notifying the family of the gunman and student who was killed.
Anderson said the teacher suffered non-life threatening injuries and was treated at the scene.
During the evacuation, another unrelated gun was found and one person was taken into custody.
The attack panicked students at Reynolds High School in Troutdale after a lockdown was ordered and they were told to quietly go to their classrooms.
by beetree on 11 June 2014 - 11:06
74 school shootings since Sandy Hook. Obama wants American's to be ashamed at this statistic. Are we there, yet?
by Two Moons on 12 June 2014 - 17:06
The statistic is misleading disinformation as is the term monster.
No I don't think there is any shame at all, that's the wrong approach to take.
by beetree on 12 June 2014 - 18:06
That number will only grow. Nothing misleading about that. Monster is an apt description for (mass) murderers. I am sure there are others, too.
by Two Moons on 12 June 2014 - 19:06
it's almost like your hoping it will happen, of course numbers increase with the passing of time, no one's gonna argue that.
Maybe after summer vacation hey?
Name calling's sure not gonna make anything any better is it?
Neither will some lame shame on you approach.
by beetree on 12 June 2014 - 19:06
And nothing will change because people won't change. No one cared for all those statistics from the American Thinker opinion to even bother to comment. I suppose no one even read it! It was an anti-gun control piece, too. I think there were some truth's to it, regardless.
Let me drive home this point to you: It is absurd to think I would want more school children harmed by any one for any reason. I am not surprised that would be your perception. You have your own biases to help you with that.
Name calling? LOL I am describing personality, not mocking persons. So, you think all these shooters just had no one to love them as babies, and they all had cold-hearted, neglectful mothers? Poor misunderstood murderers. So, many of them, too!
Obama just wonders what I do. I suppose it might only happen when everyone can tell a story about the little kid down the street that didn't make it during their local elementary school shooting. My next thought asks, "When does it come full circle and start to repeat?" And we can start to count the same schools being struck, again? See, I am starting to think, maybe it isn't the guns, it is the people.
We need to change the people.
You ask a lot of questions without providing answers. That has yet to solve anything, too.
by beetree on 12 June 2014 - 21:06
How about some of these most recent specifics! Trending UP... and Obama and I wonder, when will people want to change?
Active shootings are tracked by a still relatively new specialized team at the FBI, which sprang up after the school shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. On the one-year anniversary of that attack, Scripps landed an exclusive interview with the special agent who heads that team. At the time, the FBI said that by the end of 2013 active shooting incidents had already tripled compared to previous years.
So how is 2014 shaping up? Unfortunately, not so well, according to the most up-to-date stats kept by academic researchers at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas – that’s where the FBI looks to stay on top of the trends
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/decodedc/active-shooting-incidents-on-pace-to-rise-again-in-2014
by beetree on 12 June 2014 - 22:06
Necessity is the mother of invention. This seems to be an excellent idea!
“The Sleeve” is a 12-gauge carbon steel case that fits around the door’s closer arm, securing the door from the inside. The Sleeve can withstand more than 550 foot-pounds of pressure, making it nearly impossible to open from the outside.
Daniel Nitzel, a teacher at West Middle School in Muscatine, got the idea from the school’s active shooter training.
“We were instructed to tie a belt or a cord around the closer arm. It seemed like a logical way to secure a door without having to go into the hallway, [but] it took us a long time to get a cord, stand on a chair, and tie a knot, which could potentially be the most important tie of your life.” said Nitzel.
“I can tell you in our training, all five rooms that the teachers were trained in; the doors were breached, the cords were ripped, and the officer who was portraying the active shooter came in and killed all of us,” Nitzel said.
by yellowrose of Texas on 13 June 2014 - 01:06
Oh , we have no problem in schools...what are we gonnas do with *90,000 kids that just hit the shores of USA and are camped out in our Military bases and non of them speak ENGLISH...and half are from Criminal background parents...who told family over yonder to SEND THEM ON>>>THEY issued a REPREAVE for all kids of immigrants..now" YEAH RIGHT
and we today announced in our Government YO YO, news alert, we have 108,000 VETS waiting for URGENT CARE?????
NO problem...just give them all a gun...or they will find a gun before too much longer...as soon as they get their belly full..
I see more than one fiasco coming to the surface...
The 3rd world countries teach their children to use weapons at age of 3 yrs old.
YR
by Mindhunt on 13 June 2014 - 12:06
Interesting perspective from a research psychiatrist, Dr. Swanson at Duke University, regarding mental health and violence
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