Shooter incident at elementary school in Uvalde, Texas - 19 children and 2 adults dead (1 Viewer)

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A New Jersey hospital worker was arrested after police said they discovered multiple guns – including an assault rifle – and ammunition at the hospital while responding to a bomb threat.

On the afternoon of July 18, officers with Secaucus Police Department arrived at Hudson Regional Hospital, less than five miles west of Manhattan, after authorities received a phone call that a bomb was in the hospital.

When officers swept the hospital, bomb-detecting dogs "gave a positive indication" on a closet in an office, police said in a news release. Police entered the closet and found "a large cache of rifles, shotguns and handguns, along with assorted ammunition for the firearms."

Police said 11 handguns, 27 rifles/shotguns and a semi-automatic rifle with high-capacity magazine, later determined to be an assault rifle, were recovered. An additional 14 rounds of high-capacity handgun magazines were discovered...........

 
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Beto O'Rourke confronts person laughing during Uvalde speech

During a speech at a town hall meeting in Mineral Wells, Texas, on Wednesday, O’Rourke lashed out at an audience member who was apparently laughing while he was reflecting on the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
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Good but Sad article
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Bullets strike thousands of people in front of kids every year, but for the often-overlooked victims present when their moms and dads are gunned down, the trauma is unique and immense. In Chicago, the experiences of Kaniya and two other child witnesses reveal the depths of sadness and anger, guilt and dread that they endure afterward.

It’s the fear that Kaniya has never shed, though her trauma is seldom obvious. She doesn’t tremble at the sound of loud noises or cry when movies turn violent. She gets along with both her younger brother and an older one who didn’t witness the attack. She makes A’s and B’s at school, enjoys playing violin and wants to try out for basketball in high school. Among her friends, she’s considered the cheerful one.

She almost never talks about the nauseating feeling in her stomach when a car slowly passes or a man in a hoodie walks by. She keeps private, even from her mom, the recurring dream about the dark figure who chases her, night after night, until she wakes up. And then there’s the persistent anxiety that the gunman will show up again one day and kill the rest of them.

Kaniya, a first-grader when her dad was shot, has begun to forget the man who called her his “princess.” The TV shows they watched and the games they played, the color of his eyes and the smell of his skin. It’s all faded from her memory. About his death, though, she recalls nearly every detail..........

No one knows how many children in America witness their parents being shot to death.

In the nation’s capital alone, at least seven children saw it happen over the first three months of this year. Among them: A 4-year-old girl and her 2-year-old sister who were sitting in the back seat of a car when someone shot their pregnant mother; a 5-year-old boy who was walking down the street, holding his father’s hand, when a man approached and fired several rounds; an 8-year-old boy who was riding in an SUV with his mom when a stray round struck her in the head and she slumped into his lap........

Like almost every aspect of the gun violence epidemic, its effects on child witnesses are seldom researched. One of the first studies to explore the phenomenon, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry in 1986, analyzed the experiences of 16 kids, including a few whose parents did not die in shootings. Every one of the children developed post-traumatic stress disorder and experienced intense flashbacks. Fifteen of them had profound problems in school the year after the assaults. Fourteen experienced nightmares. Half began to lash out.

But almost none were given treatment when they needed it most.

“It is significant how few of these children receive psychiatric attention subsequent to such a trauma,” the study read, noting that before the kids finally did receive treatment, “no one asked them about what happened.”.........

Nearly four decades later, many young witnesses remain unseen and unsupported.

“It’s crazy the extent to which we ignore these kids, and that they fall through the cracks of our system, because we just don’t have any systematic way at all of identifying them, assessing them and making sure that they’re getting whatever help and services they need,” said Sherry Hamby, a psychology professor at the University of the South whose research has examined the deep and lasting trauma children experience when they see a parent attacked.

Jaranilla doesn’t know what she’ll do if her kids one day need trauma therapy. Kaniya is bracing for the hard moments to come — father-daughter dances, learning to drive, her eventual walk down the aisle on someone else’s arm — and Eman’s outbursts have only become more frequent.

Jaranilla hopes to someday get a degree in psychology or maybe make a living through social media but, for now, she works at Dick’s Sporting Goods and struggles to earn enough to pay for her kids’ school trips or the Christmas gifts they want. Kaniya, Eman and their half brother share a three-level bunk bed in a small bedroom across from hers..........


 
Saintman2884 said:
Guido, antisemitism or religious anti-Judaism, is one of the worlds oldest, dangerous and most insidious diseases there is because it masked itself so cleverly, subtly, so artfully into almost every major continent, and society over the past 2,000 years, excluding Antarctica. It inflicts so many of the worse elements in a society but it also corrupts the heroic, brave, intelligent, and supposedly most honorable in society. Literally, guido, it’s of Biblical status and yes, one can find it in the Old and New Testaments, you can see stories or examples of antisemitism littered all throughout its pages.
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Masked itself so cleverly the past 2000 years? The Catholic church very openly persecuted Jewish people, and tortured or killed them up until the late 1800's, for not converting to Christianity, a persecution that started with the idea that it was the Jews' fault Jesus was crucified. It wasn't until 1964 that the Catholic church issued their "Declaration on the Jews", which practically "pardoned" the Jews for the death of Jesus. The church of England didn't do any better.
 
Before July Fourth, Cooper Roberts was almost always active and running around. He loved playing sports – including soccer, baseball and football – and riding his bike, his family has said.

Life has looked very different since the 8-year-old was shot in the Highland Park Fourth of July attack, and left paralyzed. Seven people were killed and dozens injured by the gunman who fired from a roof into the crowd.

“There are layers upon layers of cruelty with being shot by a sniper. Most people don’t witness the grueling aftermath of surviving these devastating wounds,” Cooper’s family said in a statement Tuesday updating his condition. “He’s an 8-year-old boy who feels hopeless, sad and angry as the reality of his life is setting in.”

Hoping to shed light on what that new reality has looked like, Cooper’s family has provided regular updates on the child’s condition in the weeks since the attack, including on the numerous surgeries he underwent as doctors worked to repair injured organs and stave off infections.

Earlier this month, Cooper was transferred to a rehabilitation facility after nearly a month in pediatric intensive care, a family spokesperson previously said.

The child is still in “constant pain” from internal wounds that are slow to heal, his family said Tuesday.

“He is on a constant IV drip of antibiotics to ward off infection, has swelling that obscures the full internal picture, and suffers stomach pain as his body relearns to process mainly liquid food. He remains on heavy painkillers,” the update said.

Cooper was recently cleared to begin eating some solid foods, his family said, but he feels “full and nauseous” after only a bite or two...........

 
Fifty-nine people were killed in 193 gunfire incidents in American schools during the 2021-2022 school year, which saw the highest number of school shooting incidents in a decade.

Everytown for Gun Safety has tracked school gun violence annually since 2013. During the 2021-2022 school year, the number of “incidents of gunfire” – defined as firearms “discharged in or onto a school’s campus or grounds” – surged far beyond rates of gunfire from every year since the group began tracking them, according to its latest report.

The report from the nonpartisan gun control advocacy group found that the number of gunfire incidents in preschools and in kindergarten through 12th-grade campuses within the last school year was more than triple the number in the previous school year, and nearly quadruple the average number of incidents since 2013.

There were 62 such incidents in the 2020-2021 school year. Until last school year, the highest number of gunfire incidents over the last decade was during the 2018-2019 school year, when there were 75……

www.independent.co.uk

Gunfire in American schools dramatically surged during the 2021-2022 school year

Everytown For Gun Safety tracked193 incidents of gunfire during last academic year, more than double the previous year and quadruple the average shootings over last decade
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Optimus Prime said:
Fifty-nine people were killed in 193 gunfire incidents in American schools during the 2021-2022 school year, which saw the highest number of school shooting incidents in a decade.

Everytown for Gun Safety has tracked school gun violence annually since 2013. During the 2021-2022 school year, the number of “incidents of gunfire” – defined as firearms “discharged in or onto a school’s campus or grounds” – surged far beyond rates of gunfire from every year since the group began tracking them, according to its latest report.

The report from the nonpartisan gun control advocacy group found that the number of gunfire incidents in preschools and in kindergarten through 12th-grade campuses within the last school year was more than triple the number in the previous school year, and nearly quadruple the average number of incidents since 2013.

There were 62 such incidents in the 2020-2021 school year. Until last school year, the highest number of gunfire incidents over the last decade was during the 2018-2019 school year, when there were 75……

www.independent.co.uk

Gunfire in American schools dramatically surged during the 2021-2022 school year

Everytown For Gun Safety tracked193 incidents of gunfire during last academic year, more than double the previous year and quadruple the average shootings over last decade
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There is no perfect solution therefore nothing ought to be tried. Except adding more guns. Guns are always the answer.
 
Optimus Prime said:
Fifty-nine people were killed in 193 gunfire incidents in American schools during the 2021-2022 school year, which saw the highest number of school shooting incidents in a decade.

Everytown for Gun Safety has tracked school gun violence annually since 2013. During the 2021-2022 school year, the number of “incidents of gunfire” – defined as firearms “discharged in or onto a school’s campus or grounds” – surged far beyond rates of gunfire from every year since the group began tracking them, according to its latest report.

The report from the nonpartisan gun control advocacy group found that the number of gunfire incidents in preschools and in kindergarten through 12th-grade campuses within the last school year was more than triple the number in the previous school year, and nearly quadruple the average number of incidents since 2013.

There were 62 such incidents in the 2020-2021 school year. Until last school year, the highest number of gunfire incidents over the last decade was during the 2018-2019 school year, when there were 75……

www.independent.co.uk

Gunfire in American schools dramatically surged during the 2021-2022 school year

Everytown For Gun Safety tracked193 incidents of gunfire during last academic year, more than double the previous year and quadruple the average shootings over last decade
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My personal opinion is that the trend can be traced to one common factor in those two school years. But, I can't post about it here....
 
FIRED finally

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Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo fired over botched response to shooting that killed 19 students and 2 teachers

From the time police entered the building May 24, 1 hour, 14 minutes and 8 seconds passed until the gunman was killed.
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Jazmin Cazares, whose sister was killed in the shooting, said Wednesday on Twitter that "we appreciate the school board for FINALLY listening to us, but we aren’t going to applaud them for doing something that should have been done MONTHS ago."
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Good article
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WEST PADUCAH, Ky. — At first, Missy Jenkins Smith thought the sound of gunfire at her Kentucky high school was a bad joke. Her prayer group had just said, “Amen,” and their day was about to begin. Then one of her classmates fell to the floor, shot in the head.


Another student was hit. Then another.

And suddenly, the 14-year-old boy wielding a Ruger .22 fired seven bullets indiscriminately toward the teens gathered inside Heath High School on Dec. 1, 1997, the Monday morning after Thanksgiving break.


Jenkins Smith dropped to the tile floor, struck by a bullet in the chest. A teacher knelt beside her.
“Am I going to die?” she asked.
Jenkins Smith survived but was paralyzed from the chest down at the age of 15 and has used a wheelchair since.


The attack upended the small town of West Paducah, in what was then a rarity in the United States: a school shooting.

Three students — Nicole Hadley, 14; Jessica James, 17; and Kayce Steger, 15 — were killed and five others wounded.

Michael Carneal pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. But under Kentucky law, the teenager who claimed to have been bullied was given the possibility of parole in 25 years.


Carneal is up for a hearing next month — a relatively rare instance in which an assailant in a school shooting has been given a chance at release. The proceeding will be held Sept. 19 and 20 over Zoom to determine whether Carneal, now 39, will be released in November.


The prospect of Carneal potentially getting released has reopened wounds for those who still carry the pain from a shooting largely forgotten by America.

The case also presents a unique question as school shootings continue to afflict the nation: What should happen to child assailants who decades later become eligible for release?

Privately, survivors and families of the victims in Kentucky have grappled with whether and how to forgive him — and if the pain he has caused makes that even possible……

 
Sailorsaint said:
They have suspended the entire police force, just a few officers, but still, all of them.
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Uvalde school district fires officer after CNN identifies her as trooper under investigation for her response to massacre | CNN

The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District fired a newly hired school officer on Thursday after CNN identified her as one of the officers under investigation for her actions during the Uvalde school massacre in May.
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So they pick this chick as the villain?
 

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