http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/world/washington-school-shooting-2-dead-including-lone-gunman-1.2812380
So a very sad story today that some of you may have heard already. Marysville Pilchuk High school,in Washington, experienced a school shooting. It happened today during lunch time in the cafeteria. A student pulled out a gun and shot at least 3 others. The police have not released the shooters identity, but what I've seen on a twitter, it was reported that shooter was the schools Homecoming Prince. President Obama has been notified and may adress it tonight.
This will certainly spark up a gun control issue debate. Its seems as more and more time goes past, the more and more school shootings happen. What are your guys take? Should it be harder for people to get guns? Should there be sanity tests?
I think there should definitely be sanity tests. That boy was obviously mentally unstable in some way. I also read a few articles on the incident, and his friends and teammates said he was acting normal and happy the day before, although someone mentioned that he'd been the butt of a racist joke a week or so before that. Reportedly, the kids he shot were his own friends. Something was very wrong there mentally. Perhaps if someone had seen that earlier and helped him get through whatever was going on, this shooting might not have happened.
ReplyDeleteI don't know. It would be hard to measure someone's sanity. Maybe he was very angry with the joking and anger makes people do pretty stupid things. But I agree that there had to be something wrong mentally to shot up your school.
ReplyDeleteNobody had any reason to believe that this kid was insane before the shooting. The gun belonged to his dad, who I believe had something to do with law enforcement. I think this shooting could not have been prevented. Tons of kids get bullied without parents or counselor's knowledge; its the ugly truth. We know now that he had some issues but not when we could have done somthing.
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