Four school shootings in a week

[reggie the dog]

"The shooting was the fourth at a U.S. school within a week.

On Feb. 8, a woman shot two fellow students to death before committing suicide at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge. In Memphis, Tenn., a 17-year-old is accused of shooting and critically wounding a fellow student Monday during a high school gym class, and the 15-year-old victim of a shooting at an Oxnard, Calif., junior high school has been declared brain dead. "

from http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080215/ap_on_re_us/niu_shooting


What in the hell is wrong with American society?

How did human life become so poorly valued?

How much of this can we pin on Reganomics, (letting the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, thereby sending the message that the poor masses are not worth anything).

[Pab Sungenis]

1. School shootings date back much farther than Reagan.

There are recorded incidents of deadly school violence in this nation going back to Colonial times.

Even if you want to limit it to the modern, mass-killing style, Brenda Ann Spencer (the "I Don't Like Mondays" woman) shot 11 people in 1979.

This transcends all political philosophy and theory.

[reggie the dog]

3. Is it more frequent now

or just more well reported now?

Have teenagers and young adults always held such litte value for human life?

[soothsayer]

5. it's amazing that anyone makes it through their teenage years

[bluerum]

2. Not to mention that it is ok to kill people you disagree with as long as you

have the law on your side.

[reggie the dog]

4. 4 dead in Ohio

jumps into my mind......

But in your opinion had this idea that you can kill those you do not agree with so long as the law is on your side always existed? During the epoch of exterminating the native Americans and slavery this was pretty widespread. I had the impression that this mindset went out of fashion after the McCarthy era only to surge back again 30 years later, but I could be wrong.

[bluerum]

6. Sorry. It was sarcasm. I have gotten into debates with gunners who drool

at the opportunity to blow someone away who is on their property and stealin their stuff.