School Shooting In My Neighborhood

[MetDream]

At 9 am this morning a student at Pine Middle School in Reno shot another student, luckily it only hit him in the arm. The injured student and a girl standing near him who had shrapnel injury are in the hospital. The student who did the shooting is in custody. Fifteen or so witnesses are being questioned. The other students were all sent home and the school is on lock down.

This is so tragic and it happened where I live.

[even13flow]

I'm sorry to hear about this happening. I lived about an hour away from Columbine and after it happened it took a long time for even our own community to feel safe again. While Columbine was one of the more prominent school shootings in the news, it doesn't make yours any less significant and I hope that your community will heal in time.

[Danallica]

Thats really quite sad to hear that. Image how all the other kids would be like after witnessing a shooting, expecially if they are really young kids.

[Judge B]

How old were those students anyway?

[MetDream]

How old were those students anyway?

The shooter was 14.

http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artic ... /60314002&

[superman321]

That really is very sad. You have to wonder what must be going through kids heads when they opt to take out anger and pain that way. Really is so very sad.

[Doin]

That really is very sad. You have to wonder what must be going through kids heads when they opt to take out anger and pain that way. Really is so very sad.

You also have to wonder how angry kids (and the rest of the population) have such easy access to guns.

It is little wonder America has the highest number of gun-related deaths in the world.

It's simple - fewer guns = fewer gun-related deaths.


FACT:In 2003 (the most recent year for which data is available), there were 30,136 gun deaths in the U.S:

16,907 suicides (56% of all U.S gun deaths),
11,920 homicides (40% of all U.S gun deaths),
730 unintentional shootings (2% of all U.S gun deaths),
347 from legal intervention and 232 from undetermined intent (2% of all U.S gun deaths combined).
-Numbers obtained from CDC National Center for Health Statistics mortality report online, 2006. Source - http://www.ichv.org/Statistics.htm

Australian Stats

Firearm Related Deaths in Australia, 1991-2001 examines the use of firearms to inflict fatal injury in Australia. The data focuses on five types of fatal firearm injury: suicide, homicide, accidents, legal intervention and those deaths classified as undetermined by the coroner. In total there were 5083 registered firearm related deaths in Australia between 1991 and 2001. Suicides accounted for the majority of these firearm related deaths (77 per cent), followed by homicide (15 per cent). In 1991, there were 629 firearm related deaths compared to 333 deaths in 2001. This represents a 47 per cent decrease in firearm related deaths over the period 1991 to 2001. Source - http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/cfi/cfi066.html

[Danallica]

Yep that looks to be a real problem, ive never really known why guns are such a big part of US culture, they bring nothing but harm

ps - how long did it take you to find those stats, i reccommend you tell Michael Moore how to find real stats - they are not too hard to find are they!

[Doin]

I did a google search for 'America firearms deaths statistics'.

Another problem is that the right to bear arms is in the constitution. Basically it gives people the right to own guns. Therein lies the problem.

[Bob Garage]

you have gotta love those slack firearms laws in the US, no wonder this type of thing happens all the time.

doens't help that your president is a trigger happy red neck cunt.

change your gun laws and this will happen less and less. but you wont be able to change your gun laws until mr trigger happy is out of the white house.