Yet another school shooting

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A teenager who may have had a grudge against a teacher opened fire with a shotgun at a Colorado high school, wounding two students before killing himself.

Quick-thinking students alerted the targeted teacher, who quickly left the building.

The scene unfolded on the eve of the Newtown massacre anniversary, a sombre reminder of the ever-present potential for violence in American schools.

Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson identified the shooter on Friday night as 18-year-old Karl Halverson Pierson.

The shooter entered Arapahoe High School armed with a shotgun and looking for a teacher he identified by name, Sheriff Robinson said.

"(The teacher) knew he was the target and he left that school in an effort to try to encourage the shooter to also leave the school," the sheriff said. "That was a very wise tactical decision."

One of the wounded students, a girl, was taken to hospital in serious condition. The other student suffered minor gunshot-related injuries.

Two suspected Molotov cocktails were found inside the school, the sheriff said. One detonated but no one was injured.

Within 20 minutes of the report of a gunman, officers found the suspect's body inside the school, Sheriff Robinson said.

Students were seen walking toward the school's running track with their hands in the air, and television footage showed students being patted down.

Authorities concluded that Pierson had acted alone.

Nearby neighbourhoods were jammed with cars as parents sought their children.

Several Denver-area school districts went into lockdown as reports of the shooting spread. Police as far away as Fort Collins, about a two-hour drive north, stepped up school security.

The practice of sending law enforcement directly to an active shooting incident was developed in response to another Colorado school shooting that shook the nation: in 1999, two teenage shooters killed 12 classmates and a teacher at Columbine High School before killing themselves.

Arapahoe High School is 13 kilometres from Columbine.

More recently, a shooter killed 12 people at a movie theatre in Aurora, another Denver suburb, in 2012.

A slate of gun control measures, including ammunition magazine limits and expanded background checks, were this year approved by Colorado lawmakers.

Two state lawmakers were ousted in recall elections after voting for the measures, and a third resigned to avoid a recall. The backlash was a reflection of the divide in a state known for its hunting and where gun ownership is a treasured right.


Only good thing is that only the shooter is the only one dead.
 
Only good thing is that only the shooter is the only one dead.

No, that's not good at all. Any loss of life, regardless of who they are, is a tragedy. On top of this, he never even stood trial, so by court of law, he essentially died an innocent man anyway.
 
No, that's not good at all. Any loss of life, regardless of who they are, is a tragedy. On top of this, he never even stood trial, so by court of law, he essentially died an innocent man anyway.
But if he hadn't died, who knows how any others he could have shot/killed.
 
No, that's not good at all. Any loss of life, regardless of who they are, is a tragedy. On top of this, he never even stood trial, so by court of law, he essentially died an innocent man anyway.

Shallow viewpoint. I welcome the death of cowards who can't even commit suicide on their own.
 
No, that's not good at all. Any loss of life, regardless of who they are, is a tragedy. On top of this, he never even stood trial, so by court of law, he essentially died an innocent man anyway.

He shot 2 people, there is no doubt he was the shooter. He's not innocent as there is no need to be proven guilty. Though the judicial process would've been followed anyway . I suppose on paper he was innocent but in reality no.
 
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Why can't people like this just stay at home and splatter their brains over the wall? Why the need for taking innocent people with them?
Because it gets wall to wall 24 hour coverage, Adam Lanza and James Holmes have become household names.
 
Because it gets wall to wall 24 hour coverage, Adam Lanza and James Holmes have become household names.
I had forgotten their names until you reminded me. A normal person would not want to remember who they were or what they did.
 
Reminds me of comedian Jim Norton referring to the mainstream media as the biggest vultures. Authorities don't want the media plastering the pictures of these psychos everywhere, telling their life story, because it encourages other psychos to copycat, but the media don't give a 🤬. It was really funny when he told it. ;)
 
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I had forgotten their names until you reminded me. A normal person would not want to remember who they were or what they did.

But did you remember what they did when you read their names?

It's not so much wanting to remember them, it's that everybody has heard their names and crimes so many times it hard to not know who they are and what they did.
 
But did you remember what they did when you read their names?

It's not so much wanting to remember them, it's that everybody has heard their names and crimes so many times it hard to not know who they are and what they did.

Yes I read their names, heard them on the news, and became angry, especially with the Sandy Hook Shooter. From a news standpoint it is important to know who they were and what they did. Afterwards I choose to learn from the mistakes that lead to what they caused. To me their names are no longer important, and should only be shown as a mark of shame for those who are related to them.
 
Reminds me of comedian Jim Norton referring to the mainstream media as the biggest vultures. Authorities don't want the media plastering the pictures of these psychos everywhere, telling their life story, because it encourages other psychos to copycat, but the media don't give a 🤬. It was really funny when he told it. ;)

I agree about the media sensationalizing a tragic event all for the sake of ratings.

I also love Jimmy's rant about fishing not being a sport, hilarious.
 
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