Ohio School Shooting Leaves 1 Student Dead, 4 Others Injured

dammit kids… really??? i just dont get why taking a gun to school and shooting the place up is a cool thing to do for these little bastards now a days… i mean come on… when i was a kid and i got pissed at someone in the school i would just beat the piss out of them and or date their sister and get a tuggy and brag about it to their friends… not go postal and shoot the damn place up.. i feel no sympathy for the kids that do it.. i think they should be put down immediately and less kids would think it was cool to do

I am surprised to learn that according to  The School Associated Violent Deaths Report,which is an in-house report of the
National School Safety Center dealing with school shootings and other
violent deaths within schools that shooting have actually gone down since 2005 significantly. there is a nice bar graph there. by down significantly I mean like 75%. Thank you  @Dakota Valkyrie  who linked it in the forums. does the ‘@mention’ function work on the front page?

http://www.schoolsafety.us/media-resources/school-associated-violent-deaths

I can only associate the drop in the wake of Columbine and the 5-6 year lag for the government to make improvements at huge cost to the taxpayers. However, it is money well spent.

Your point is well taken, but no one is defending the shooting.

Precisely, I never defended the murderer.  I’m only speculating on what sparked the shooting.

I wish these idiots would get the order correct although that seems to never be the case.  The order of operations here is 1) Shoot self.  2) After #1 is complete, shoot up the place.  Thanks.

The best revenge one can get in reference of those assholes in high school is to have a better profession than their asses. Especially with the popular assholes that end up peaking in high school and the rest of their lives is spent doing shitty jobs that they hate.

That and blowing off the 10yr reunion. No fucking way I went to mine. Why in the fuck did I wanna see those assholes that tortured me for being a little too innocent for being in High School?

Because metal detectors are expensive, unpopular and questionably effective solutions.

When my husband was a kid, he went to a middle school that employed metal detectors.  Parents didn’t like it because it made the kids feel like they were going to prison for six hours a day, and the kids were able to easily circumvent the detectors by throwing their backpacks over the fence in an inconspicuous spot, collecting them once they got in.  

Bullying is such an excuse. There was a girl who made my life HELL in middle school. Turns out she was a lesbian and I think was facing her own coming of age hell and took out her frustrations on me. But she was MEAN. And she was big so there was no way I could have fought her. I also grew up in a house full of guns and I never shot my school up or this girl. I always knew that life can suck sometimes but it can also be really awesome in the future. 

I survived, I grew stronger from it. My high school years were awesome. And I still see this girl around town sometimes and we stop and chit chat. No hard feelings, no weapons. Kids are MEAN. Get over it!!!!

Athena I couldn’t agree more.

I live in a city that possibly spends more on education than any other jurisdiction per capita in this country. Is the education excellent? No. Do the parents really care? No. Why then? Metal detectors and security and the kids still are not safe.

The answer? Hell if I know, but metal detectors are not it.

Sociopath School Shooter Salad:

First you take deviant teenagers with hormonal imbalances and an inflated sense of self importance that borders on narcissism.  

Toss in their desperate need to seek out attention whether it be positive or negative, a warped sense of unjustified entitlement in a world that refuses to go along for the ride.

Mix with a pathetic built in excuse from their upbringing (sexual abuse, bullying, lack of affection, poverty…whatever). 

Sprinkle example (Columbine) after example (Virginia Tech) after example (University of Texas) after example (Westside Middle School) of those that have paved the deranged way for these impulsive little sociopaths.  

The little bastards probably beat off to pictures of Dylan Klebold dressed in black with a pool of blood surrounding his ugly head while Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy” plays over and over ad infinitum.  

The focus of the media and all of her sycophantic followers (of which group I freely admit belonging to) is on the sensational and shocking thrill killing of the day week month etc.  The antihero perpetrators of these terrible deeds are made immediately infamous.  

Remember that need for attention I pointed out above?  Infamy is attention.  There is a gratifying payoff in the form of the surrounding hoopla and intense, (albeit temporary)  microscopic scrutiny to which we subject these doomed children of a lost generation to after they commit these senseless crimes, and it is apparently a sufficient trade off for their lives.   

The bright light is focused on these losers in an effort to answer the unanswerable question (WHAT COULD WE HAVE DONE TO PREVENT THIS?)

Sad that in this day and age, 15 minutes of infamy is more then enough to provide these former nobodies all the evidence they need to believe that they have made their mark and will go down in history.  

Apparently no one these days sees the forest through the trees.  The outlook for mankind as a whole is not the brightest in my opinion.

Is anyone else sick to death of this shit?  There is no end in sight.  Its really all a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy if you ask me.  Kind of a psycho salad.

 Remember when if you didn’t like school, you just didn’t go? I’d just go surfing instead and suck it up in summer school. Waves suck around here in the summer anyways.

Or you kill yourself.

I would have to add not getting fat to the list of revenges. I still run into the ‘pretty’ (but not so nice) girls from HS sometimes, and they are invariably fat, single, and have several kids in tow. When I tell them how good it is to see them, I really mean it.

Those who bullied me the worst were the ones with truly horrible home lives. I didn’t find out until later though, when they apologized.

 Cheer up, the world is a beautiful place.

You are so right. That one and not aging, especially compared to them.

Them HS bitches look like hags & like they’re in their 40′s. I look like I’m 14 (face wise) the kids made my body look my age, 29.

“So, you think these will stop me from bringing heavy metal objects to school? Hah!” I would have at least brought a knife to school, just to prove I could.