Breaking: Spokane School Shooting

[Chef2]

1 dead, 3 injured.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/sep/13/shooting-reported-at-freeman-high-school/

 

[tapintoamerica]

Another great day for the NRA.

 

[Cosmo]

Not enough carnage to provoke outrage. Sad, but that's where we are as a society these days.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

When 9 people die in a shooting in Texas, we shrug our shoulders nowadays. If it gets a media mention at all.

 

[I Should Coco]

Not enough carnage to provoke outrage. Sad, but that's where we are as a society these days.

Unfortunately, you're 100 percent correct.

Could have been much worse; local news reports I've heard indicate the first weapon the shooter tried to use (some sort of rifle) jammed, forcing him to go with a handgun. And apparently a janitor physically overpowered the kid before he could shoot more people.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Gotta go to England for a comprehensive report:

Hero best friend and custodian of high school shooting | Daily Mail Online

 

[qtlaw]

Damn as a father of a high school junior, this is so scary. Walk around a high school and what is it, pure chance? that not everyone can fit in and that some will suffer from anxiety and feelings of not belonging/not being mainstream. Does that automatically lead to self-loathing? How do we as a society help address that? Its got to start with inclusion, not exclusion. We talk about youth sports here, and having raised two kids who participated, its all too obvious that kids learn exclusionary traits very early from their parents.

It doesn't have to be trophies for all, or snack time, but reflecting back, more effort needs to be made to teach our youth to lean to include others not exclude, even when they may have some deficiency in performance, whatever. The best coaching I saw in youth sports was when one year I was an assistant coach and I saw the head coach demand 100% of every player's capability. If the RF couldn't catch a fly, that was ok, but he better damn sure give 100% on every pitch backing up throws to 1st and cutting off balls to the alley; it was so eye opening because I did not realize how inclusive that was and how invested everyone became into the team. Its my best memory from youth sports.

 

[melock]

Freeman High School shooting: Suspect said he was bullied, police documents say

 

[RickStain]

Not enough carnage to provoke outrage. Sad, but that's where we are as a society these days.

For whatever reason, minimized exposure is a good thing. Sensationalized coverage breeds these incidents.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

For whatever reason, minimized exposure is a good thing. Sensationalized coverage breeds these incidents.

But how are they supposed to get scholarships if we don't cover them?