Teen Gunman Kills Nine

High Society · Post by **High Society** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 7:58 am

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article ... 0000000001

Shooting at a high school in Minn, what have we come to these days?

audiobass10 · Post by **audiobass10** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 10:40 am

Some kids are fucking idiots. I'm not sure what possesed the kid to do somethin like this, but it was probably because he was made fun of in high school or somethin like that. So try to be cool with the kid who enjoys chemistry class..could end up savin your life.

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:47 pm

Its not that I dont want to reply to this topic, its just that I dont know what to say.

Agree with the above statemnts ^^^^^^^^^^

dmeyer07 · Post by **dmeyer07** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:10 pm

Ditto^^^, Killing some one because you are teased is no way to take care of a problem. It sux things like this have to happen in our country, or anywhere for that matter

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Mithrandir · Post by **Mithrandir** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:17 pm

everyone pays for what a few people do, thats how things always are, how many more unstable kids shooting up their school is it gonna take for people to realize...hey lets not constantly torment kids they could end up killing us. Im not trying to justify his actions but when will people learn teasing isnt harmless

Post by **GlassWolf** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:17 pm

I think that kid was broken long before this.
his mother is in a nursing home with brain damage from a car accident, and his father killed himself when the boy was 13. That's got to have some very strong effects on a person's development. Especially living in a very poor community where counseling and things like that aren't readily available.

I'm not condoning what happened, but I think the kid had problems. Very serious ones that went far beyond some simple teasing in school.

dmeyer07 · Post by **dmeyer07** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:21 pm

Thats rediculous that a kid can just walk into a school w/ a shoty and 2 pistols.
If you think about all the security we have at airports, and other public buildings, and then look at schools its horrible.

Although making every student be searched before entering the building would be a royal and impossible pain in the ass.

nist7 · Post by **nist7** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:49 pm

I agree with KiKi.

In addition to uncontrollable environmental/social factors, many "crazy" people also have biological causes. Their brain may be wired differently and chemically inbalanced to produce violent outbursts of emotion and/or action.

So you cannot simply blame it on the kid and his stupidity. Although I am not saying that the kid could not have sought some sort of counseling.

This is a huge problem with the prison system. Some people belong in mental health facilities, not jails. But of course, we all know that it is far easier and cheaper to treat the symptoms and not the cause.

Mithrandir · Post by **Mithrandir** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:56 pm

I think I have some mental issues, not the kind where im gonna go kill all kinds of people though

lol

Post by **GlassWolf** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:00 pm

what that article didn't mention was that his grandpa was a retired cop.
the kid took the police car to school, armed with the two handguns and the shotgun (police issue riot gun) wearing Kevlar body armor.
He then walked up to the metal detectors at the entrance to the school, and shot the guard, walked through, triggering the detector, and proceeded to kill the 5 students and one teacher after barricading himself in a classroom with the hostages to hold off police who arrived in response to the crisis, after which he took his own life.