I wasn't able to keep up with everything, but I'd *thought* I'd had a pretty good idea of all the lies.
Boy, was I wrong
Boy, was I wrong
Holy shit. Hopefully they end up legit firedUvalde school district suspends entire police force, superintendent to retire amid fallout from shooting
The Uvalde, Texas, school district, announced the suspension of the entire district police force on Friday.abcnews.go.com
So basically they've fired the entire police force. Apparently radio transmissions between officers during the shooting came out, with one of the first SWAT officers on the scene openly saying she's in no rush to stop the shooting because her son wasn't there.
Can't wait for the radio leaks showing the police shot and killed one of the children.
What needs to happen is for every last person in an authority position involved in this tragedy to be fired, arrested, prosecuted, and given double-digit prison sentences.Uvalde school district suspends entire police force, superintendent to retire amid fallout from shooting
The Uvalde, Texas, school district, announced the suspension of the entire district police force on Friday.abcnews.go.com
So basically they've fired the entire police force. Apparently radio transmissions between officers during the shooting came out, with one of the first SWAT officers on the scene openly saying she's in no rush to stop the shooting because her son wasn't there.
Can't wait for the radio leaks showing the police shot and killed one of the children.
Give them the ultimate cruel mercy and living hell.What needs to happen is for every last person in an authority position involved in this tragedy to be fired, arrested, prosecuted, and given double-digit prison sentences.
Or just make 'm go back to school, cuz... you know.What needs to happen is for every last person in an authority position involved in this tragedy to be fired, arrested, prosecuted, and given double-digit prison sentences.
A lack of empathy bordering on sociopathy. "Wasn't me or mine; who cares?!"Uvalde school chief plans to resign after community outrage
Uvalde’s school district superintendent has announced he plans to resign by the end of the academic year.apnews.com
The ones cheering on the superintendent and harassing the victims' families are disgusting and hypocritical. Had it been their kids, they would have been crying their asses off, demanding bloodshed and retribution. They beyond disgust me. Those pathetic trash don't deserve to have kids.
And just for good measure...As a Michigan teen pleaded guilty on Oct. 24, 2022, to killing four students in a December 2021 attack, America was learning of yet another school shooting. This time, it was a performance arts high school in St. Louis, where a former student opened fire, killing two and injuring at least seven others before dying in a shootout with police.
The fact that yet another school shooting took place within hours of a gunman in a separate case appearing in court underscores how often these events take place in the U.S. As criminologists who have built a comprehensive database to log all school shootings in the U.S., we know that deadly school gun violence in America in now a regular occurrence – with incidents only becoming more frequent and deadlier.
Our records show that seven more people died in mass shootings at U.S. schools between 2018 and 2022 – a total of 52 – than in the previous 18 years combined since the watershed 1999 Columbine High School massacre.
Since the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, moreover, more than 700 people have been shot at U.S. schools on football fields and in classrooms, hallways, cafeterias and parking lots.
Many of these shootings were not the mass killing events that schools typically drill for. Rather, they were an extension of rising everyday gun violence.
More Frequent and Deadlier
There have been shootings at U.S. schools almost every year since 1966, but in 2021 there were a record 250 shooting incidents – including any occurrence of a firearm being discharged, be it related to suicides, accidental shootings, gang-related violence or incidents at after-hours school events.
That’s double the annual number of shooting incidents recorded in the previous three years – in both 2018 and 2019, 119 shootings were logged, and there were 114 incidents in 2020.
With more than two months left, 2022 is already the worst year on record. As of Oct. 24, there have been 257 shootings on school campuses – passing the 250 total for all of 2021.
Many of these incidents have been simple disputes turned deadly because teenagers came to school angry and armed. At East High in Des Moines, Iowa, in March 2022, for example, six teens allegedly fired 42 shots in an incident that took place during school dismissal time. The hail of gunfire killed one boy and critically injured two female bystanders. The district attorney described the case as one of the most complex murder investigations their office has ever conducted, partly because six handguns were used.
At Miami Gardens High in Florida that same month, two teens are alleged to have sprayed more than 100 rounds with a rifle and handgun modified for fully automatic fire.
They targeted a student standing in front of the school, but bullets penetrated the building, striking two students sitting inside.
A similar situation unfolded outside Roxborough High in Philadelphia in October. A lunchtime dispute among students allegedly turned into a targeted shooting after a football scrimmage. Five teenage shooters are believed to have fired 60 shots at five classmates leaving the game, killing a 15-year-old.
In each of these cases, multiple student shooters fired dozens of shots.
The tally for 2022 also includes incidents involving lone shooters.
In April, a sniper with 1,000 rounds of ammunition and six semiautomatic rifles fired from a fifth-floor window overlooking the Edmund Burke School in Washington, D.C. at dismissal. A student, parent, school security officer and bystander were wounded before the shooter died by suicide.
Threats, Hoaxes and False Alarms
The increase in shootings in and around school buildings has many parents, students and teachers on edge. An October 2022 Pew Research survey found that one-third of parents report being “very worried” or “extremely worried” about a shooting at their child’s school.
Aside from the near daily occurrences of actual school shootings, there are also the near misses and false alarms that only add to the heightened sense of threat.
In September, a potential attack was averted in Houston when police got a tip that a student planned to chain the cafeteria doors shut and shoot students who were trapped inside. The following day near Dallas, another tip sent police scrambling to stop a vehicle on the way to a high school homecoming football game. Two teens had a loaded semiautomatic rifle and planned to commit a mass shooting at the stadium, it is alleged.
There have also been thousands of false reports of shootings this year. Hoaxes, swatting calls, even a viral TikTok school shooting challenge have sent schools across the nation into lockdown. Dozens, possibly hundreds, of these threats are automated 911 calls from overseas, but police have no choice but to respond.
People are so much on edge that a popped balloon at one California school in September led to an active shooter response from police. The sound of a metal pipe banging in August caused thousands of people to flee an Arkansas high school football stadium for fear of being shot. A loud bang from a chair being thrown caused a code red lockdown and parents to rush to a Florida high school.
A Better Way?
The rising annual tally of school shootings has occurred despite enhanced school security in the two decades since the Columbine massacre. Metal detectors, clear backpacks, bulletproof chalkboards, lockdown apps, automatic door locks and cameras have not stopped the rise in school shootings. In fact, the May 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, provides a case study in systemic failure across the school safety enterprise.
Federal legislation passed in the wake of Uvalde will provide districts with money to hire additional school social workers, or pay for better communication mechanisms in school buildings to address the warning signs of violence missed in dozens of high-profile attacks.
It is aimed at better identifying and helping at-risk students before they turn to violence. However, another area that needs attention is students’ ready access to firearms.
Some school shooters, like the perpetrator in Uvalde, are young adults old enough to get their guns legally from gun stores, prompting questions over whether some states need to reconsider a minimum age for firearms sales.
Meanwhile, most school shooters get their guns from home, making safe storage of firearms a public health priority.
But many children get their guns from the streets. Preventing weapons from getting into the hands of potential school shooters will require police and policymakers to devote resources toward cracking down on straw purchasers – those who buy firearms for someone else – and getting stolen weapons, unserialized ghost guns and guns modified with auto-sears to make them fully automatic off the streets.
Such measures could be what it takes to stop the tragic normalization of school shootings.
James Densley is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Metropolitan State University; David Riedman is a Ph.D. student in Criminal Justice and Creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database at the University of Central Florida; and Jillian Peterson is a Professor of Criminal Justice at the Hamline University.
This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit, independent news organization dedicated to unlocking the knowledge of experts for the public good, under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
On Oct. 24, 2022, Twitter user @emzorbit tweeted, “The St. Louis school that was the site of an active shooter today had metal detectors, all doors were locked,” and said that “seven security officers in the school,” yet “still, the shooter gained entry and people died.” All of this was true in the case of the deadly shooting that took place on the same day at Central Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) High School.
In addition to receiving tens of thousands of retweets and likes, it was also widely shared as a screenshot on Instagram, Reddit, and elsewhere.
The shooting resulted in the deaths of a teacher and student, The Associated Press reported. Seven other students were also wounded before the shooter was gunned down by police officers who had arrived on the scene:
During a news conference on the day of the shooting, George Sells, the director of communications and marketing for Saint Louis Public Schools, spoke about seven security personnel who were working in the building at the time the shooting began. This information confirmed part of the viral tweet.A 19-year-old who killed a teacher and a 15-year-old girl at a St. Louis high school was armed with an AR-15-style rifle and what appeared to be more than 600 rounds of ammunition, a police official said Tuesday.
Orlando Harris also left behind a handwritten note offering his explanation for the shooting Monday at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School, St. Louis Police Commissioner Michael Sack told reporters. Tenth-grader Alexzandria Bell and 61-year-old physical education teacher Jean Kuczka died and seven students were wounded before police killed Harris in an exchange of gunfire.
Michael Sack, the interim commissioner for the St. Louis Police Department, also said at the same news conference that, “Not all of the public safety school security officers are armed.” In the same answer, he confirmed that the doors were locked and that the school was equipped with metal detectors:
Sack’s comments begin at the 8:58 mark in the following video. The remarks from Sells start at the 16:29 mark.They’ve got the doors locked. They’ve got the metal detectors. They’re taking all the reasonable precautions. We’ll be meeting with them after we have some time to talk about opportunities to make their facilities harder to get into. But if there’s somebody who has a will, they’re going to figure it out. We don’t want to make it easy for them, but we’ve just got to do the best we can to extend that time it takes them to get into the building to buy us time to respond and get there.
Reuters reported the same information from the news conference, publishing that “the high school had seven security officers on site and metal detectors,” and that “the security officers were not armed.” The story also mentioned that the doors to the St. Louis school were locked, just as Sack said.
In sum, yes, the school in question in the St. Louis shootings was equipped with metal detectors, all doors were locked, and seven security officers were already present when the deadly shooting began to unfold.
I barely found out about this earlier in the morning. I checked your second link and there was a video about the investigation. Apparently that asshole had a list of other school shootings in his car. The sick fuck was just trying to add his name to the list of school shooters. At least a police & SWAT actually did their job and kill the guy before he can murder more innocent people.America best number one yay!
School Shootings Are Already at a Record in 2022
As of Oct. 24, there have been 257 shootings on school campuses — passing the 250 total for all of 2021, according to data compiled by criminal justice experts.www.snopes.com
And just for good measure...
Tweet Accurately Describes Security at St. Louis School Shooting
Here is the evidence we gathered after readers asked us to confirm whether this viral tweet was true.www.snopes.com
I reported them a few hours ago.If enough of us report him as a bot or obvious troll, can he be banned???
Also unless I'm missing a beat, he said "those taking up arms are correct in their opinions". Did he just endorse school shootings????
With Sandy Hook the assailant was already victimized by his mother and possibly his father. His father said in via interview "If I could kill him myself I would" and the mother was most likely pushing him to join the military and "become a real man". He most likely targeted the school because somebody said "Those kids are more normal then you are" or "They will pass you up in life".Sandy Hook wasn't enough to get reasonable gun restrictions passed, nothing will be
Except, you know, preventing shootings by keeping people like the Sandy Hill psychopath (who was nothing but a psychopath, nothing justifies or caused his shooting other than his own self and nothing more and the same goes for anyone else who does a mass shooting.) from being able to GET the guns necessary to even do a mass shooting. That requires strict gun control laws and if that means getting the guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens too, well, boo hoo. Turns out, if bad people can't effortlessly get guns, they can't go around shooting people. Who'd a thought it?No gun-law is going to prevent shootings.
Struggling to make out what they are talking about, but I think so.Also unless I'm missing a beat, he said "those taking up arms are correct in their opinions". Did he just endorse school shootings????