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by ALI GOSTANIAN and CORKY SIEMASZKO/JAN 23 2018, 11:58 AM ET
One person was dead and multiple others were wounded Tuesday when gunfire erupted at a Kentucky high school, prompting panicked students to run for their lives.
Marshall County High School in Benton was on lockdown and a suspect was in custody as paramedics tended to the injured and wounded, state police reported.
Meanwhile, teachers and counselors tried to calm terrified students as parents and relatives raced to the scene to collect the kids, who described the chaos in the classrooms when the bullets started flying.
"They were busting down the gates and fences just to get out," Shea Thompson, whose teenage siblings were inside the school when the shooting started, told NBC News.
* more at the link
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/one-dead-after-shooting-kentucky-high-school-multiple-victims-reported-n840171?cid=eml_nbn_20180123
Irish_Dem
(47,928 posts)Unconscionable that children are not safe at school.
Iggo
(47,597 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,928 posts)This tragedy was visited on a Red State. It won't change the way they think about guns one bit.
Just throw the victim in a pit and move on.
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)PJMcK
(22,069 posts)More sarcasm.
lapfog_1
(29,243 posts)creepy strangers away... but more likely it makes them more like shooting galleries for the students who sneak in a gun. No place to run.
We need to do a better job at helping teens to get through the highly emotional puberty and young adult phase of their lives. Not sure what the shooter's motive was here but it is so often the case that it is either peer group bullying or a broken relationship or feeling of exclusion.
Squaredeal
(404 posts)Locked inside all day, while the rich send their kids to private prep schools where theyre not treated like convicts. Police inside watching, doors locked, passes needed to pee or visit the library all have become the same environment as a prison, while the rich preppy kids can roam their campus, free and not feel restricted. Sure, there are rules at prep schools too, but the their students are respected and not suspected.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)riversedge
(70,445 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)PunkinPi
(4,882 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)tragic aspect of all.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Willie Pep
(841 posts)School shootings were extremely rare. That was what made Columbine so huge at the time. Now it seems like these shootings are just another crime story.
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)Like a previous poster said, throw the kids in a pit, and move on.
bdamomma
(63,962 posts)and his terrorist (NRA) organization can go to hell. Bastards all of them.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)malaise
(269,292 posts)The killer is fifteen
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Was wondering about this
Roland99
(53,342 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)hunter
(38,350 posts)Initech
(100,144 posts)And it's never the time to talk about it.
mcar
(42,467 posts)I don't think these poor kids will even get thoughts and prayers.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Another blood soaked day for the NRA
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Ohiogal
(32,185 posts)at the hands of domestic terrorists, than foreign terrorists.
No gun control.
'Cause,. Freedom.