AMERICA, WAKE UP!!!!!!! STOP SACRIFICING OUR INNOCENTS!!!!!!! We need to return to a country that puts JESUS FIRST, & OTHERS SECOND, & OURSELVES LAST!!!!!!! Only in this way will we find true J O Y!!!!!!! This country has become a country of "me" first; it is all about "my feelings", "my needs", "my wants". Do not "diss" or insult or anger or irritate others...because they may LASH OUT...in a lasting way!!...Because in this country, it is all about "me". There is a lack of respect for others, a lack of concern for another's welfare, & so little value ~ if any!! ~ placed on another's life! WHY?!?!?!? What has happened to us?!?!? PLEASE, my fellow Americans, PRAY!!!!! Pray Without Ceasing!!!!!!! Pray for our children, & pray for ourselves!!!!!!! Beg God to not forsake us!!!!!!!
Here is the low value that has been placed on the lives of school children {& college-aged as well} in the past 2 decades, by too many people:
Nov. 1, 1991 -- 4 killed, 2 injured: Iowa City, Iowa -- Gang
Lu, a graduate student in physics from China, shot 4 people to death at the
Univ. of Iowa. Lu, who took his own life in the incident, was upset about
not getting an academic honor. The dead included faculty members &
the student who had won the honor. 2 others were critically wounded.
Oct. 1, 1997 -- 3 killed, 7 injured: Pearl, Miss. -- Luke Woodham, 16, fatally shot 2 students & wounded 7 others at Pearl High School, after stabbing his mother to death. He was sentenced the following year to 3 life sentences.
Dec.
1, 1997
-- 3 killed, 5 injured: West Paducah, Ky. -- 3 students were
killed & 5 wounded at a high school in Ky. Michael Carneal, then 14, later
pleaded guilty but mentally ill to murder & is serving life in prison.
March 24, 1998 -- 5 killed, 10 injured: Jonesboro, Ark. -- Middle
school students Mitchell Johnson & Andrew Golden pull a fire alarm at
their school in a small rural Arkansas community, then open fire on students
& teachers using an arsenal they had stashed in the nearby woods. 4 students
& a teacher who tried to shield the children are killed & 10 others
are injured. Because of their ages, Mitchell. 13, & Andrew, 11, are sentenced
to confinement in a juvenile facility until they turn 21. {N’s Note: This is the one I
recall the best. What the
news story does NOT say, but what I remember from the news at the time are
these 2 things: It was done because the girlfriend of one of the boys had
broken up with him; she was TWELVE.
The teacher who died was PREGNANT.}
“Condolences continued to pour in from around the
world, stretching the staff at the local post office to the limit...Cards &
letters by the scores came from children & adults in Dunblane, Scotland, where, 2 years ago, 16 children, ages 5 & 6,
& their teacher were gunned down at an elementary school by a
former Scout leader. Confirming the curious link that occurs when towns are
visited with similar horror, West Paducah, Ky.--scene of yet another school
shooting--dispatched a team of 100 crisis counselors to assist this community.”
May
21, 1998
-- 4 killed, 20 injured: Springfield, Ore. -- Kipland Kinkel
kills his parents & later opens fire at Thurston High School, fatally
shooting 2 teenagers.
April 20, 1999 -- 13 killed, 24 injured: Columbine, Colo. -- Eric
Harris & Dylan Klebold, students at Columbine High, open fire at the
school, killing a dozen students & a teacher & causing injury to 2
dozen others before taking their own lives.
“At one point, 3 black-clad youths described
as friends of the assailants were rousted at gunpoint in a field near the
school, frisked & taken into custody by SWAT team members in bulletproof
vests. By nightfall, police had
recovered 30 explosive devices in the school, laying near bodies & hidden
in lockers, & another 17 scattered outside. Their danger was evident in the blast of a timed explosive
that shuddered inside the school as late as 10:30 p.m.”
March 5, 2001 -- 2 killed, 13 injured: Santee, Calif. -- Santana
High student Charles Andrew Williams, 15, fatally shot 2 classmates &
wounds 13 others on the campus. He is apprehended by police in the school
bathroom, where his attack began. Williams is later sentenced to 50 years
to life.
"Recognizing violence as a public health
phenomenon is important," said California Health & Human Services
Secretary Grantland Johnson. "The San Diego events dramatize the problem,
but this
is an epidemic."
Oct.
28, 2002
-- 3 killed: Arizona -- Robert Flores Jr., 41, who was flunking out
of the Univ. of Arizona nursing school, shot & killed 3 of his professors
before killing himself.
March 21, 2005 -- 9 killed, 7 injured: Red Lake Indian
Reservation, Minn. -- Jeffrey Weise, a 16-year-old student
at Red Lake High School fatally shoots 5 students, a teacher, & a security
guard & wounds 7 others before taking his own life. Before his rampage
at Red Lake, Weise kills his grandfather & his grandfather’s companion
at their home on the Red Lake Indian Reservation.
http://articles.latimes.com/print/2005/mar/22/nation/na-shooting22
“His grandfather, Sgt. Daryl Lussier, had served for more than 35 years on the Red Lake police force. ‘The boy took his grandfather's duty belt with the guns. That's what he used,’ said Roman Stately, the Red Lake fire director.”
“His grandfather, Sgt. Daryl Lussier, had served for more than 35 years on the Red Lake police force. ‘The boy took his grandfather's duty belt with the guns. That's what he used,’ said Roman Stately, the Red Lake fire director.”
Oct. 2, 2006 -- 5 killed, 5 injured: Nickel Mines, Pa. -- Charles
Carl Roberts IV, a milk truck driver armed with a small arsenal, bursts into
a one-room schoolhouse & kills 5 Amish girls. He kills himself as police
storm the building.
http://articles.latimes.com/print/2006/oct/04/nation/na-amish4
“…he carried with him tools for a sexual assault: KY lubricant jelly, plastic flex-cuffs & heavy bolts that could have been used to restrain the children, police said Tuesday…At 10 a.m. Monday, after walking 2 of his children to their school bus, he burst into the Amish schoolhouse brandishing a 9-millimeter semiautomatic weapon & ordered the adult women & 15 boys to leave. One girl escaped with her brother, Miller said, leaving the 10 girls -- ages 6 to 13 -- behind.”
“…he carried with him tools for a sexual assault: KY lubricant jelly, plastic flex-cuffs & heavy bolts that could have been used to restrain the children, police said Tuesday…At 10 a.m. Monday, after walking 2 of his children to their school bus, he burst into the Amish schoolhouse brandishing a 9-millimeter semiautomatic weapon & ordered the adult women & 15 boys to leave. One girl escaped with her brother, Miller said, leaving the 10 girls -- ages 6 to 13 -- behind.”
April 16, 2007 -- 32 killed, 17 injured: Blacksburg, Va. -- Seung-hui
Cho, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech senior, opens fire on campus, killing 32
people in a dorm & an academic building in attacks more than 2 hours
apart. Cho takes his life after the 2nd incident.
http://articles.latimes.com/print/2007/apr/17/nation/na-main17
“The killing spree at Virginia Tech was the deadliest such incident in modern U.S. history, outstripping the 1991 mass murder at a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, in which 23 people were gunned down. It also surpassed the 1999 toll at Columbine H.S. in Littleton, Colo., where 2 teenage gunmen killed 13 people & themselves.”
“The killing spree at Virginia Tech was the deadliest such incident in modern U.S. history, outstripping the 1991 mass murder at a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, in which 23 people were gunned down. It also surpassed the 1999 toll at Columbine H.S. in Littleton, Colo., where 2 teenage gunmen killed 13 people & themselves.”
Feb. 14, 2008 -- 5 killed, 16 injured: Dekalb, Ill. -- Steven
Kazmierczak, dressed all in black, steps on stage in a lecture hall at Northern
Illinois University & opens fire on a geology class. 5 students are
killed &16 wounded before Kazmierczak kills himself on the lecture
hall stage.
“It was the 5th school shooting in a week
in the U.S…The shooting followed a string of violence in schools. Last Friday, a woman shot 2 students to
death & killed herself at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge. Also
Friday, a man shot at his wife, a teacher, in an elementary school in
Portsmouth, Ohio. This week, a high school student in Memphis, Tenn., was shot,
allegedly by a classmate, during gym class. And a 15-year-old was shot at a
junior high in Oxnard; he has been declared brain-dead.”
Feb.
27, 2012
-- 3 killed, 2 injured: Chardon, Ohio -- 3 students were killed
& 2 wounded in a shooting spree that started in a school cafeteria, as
students waited for buses to other schools. Police have charged T.J. Lane, who
was 17 at the time, as an adult.
April 2, 2012 -- 7 killed, 3 injured: Oakland -- One
L. Goh, 43, a former student at a Oikos Univ., a small Christian college,
allegedly opens fire in the middle of a classroom leaving 7 people dead &
3 wounded. Jongjin Kim, the Oikos Univ…, said the suspect was
angry because administrators refused to grant him a full tuition refund after
he dropped out of the nursing program.
“Bhutia Tshering, 38…apparently Goh's last
victim…was killed when the gunman stole his car to make a getaway, according to
the Contra Costa Times.”
Dec. 14, 2012 -- 27 killed, 1 injured: Newtown, Conn. -- Developing
story:
By late in the day, authorities said that the number of deaths overall
stood at 28, including the shooter.
One person was injured.
The victims included 18 children & 6 adults pronounced dead at
the school, & 2 pupils pronounced dead at hospitals. Another person
was found dead at a secondary crime scene.
http://news.ca.msn.com/world/china-stabbing-spree-hurts-22-schoolchildren
-- On this same date, in the Henan
province village of Chengping, China, a man injured 22 children & 1 adult
outside a primary school in central China as students were arriving for
classes shortly after 8 a.m. The
attacker is 36-year-old villager Min Yingjun. – “A Guangshan county hospital
administrator said the man first attacked an elderly woman, then students,
before being subdued by security guards who have been posted across China
following a spate of school attacks in recent years. He said there were no
deaths among the nine students admitted, although two badly injured children
had been transferred to better-equipped hospitals outside the county. It was
not clear how old the injured children were, but Chinese primary school pupils
are generally 6-11 years old… No motive was given for the stabbings, which echo
a string of similar assaults against schoolchildren in 2010 that killed nearly
20 & wounded more than 50. The most recent such attack took place in
August, when a knife-wielding man broke into a middle school in the southern
city of Nanchang & stabbed 2 students before fleeing.”
How to Talk to your Kids about School Shootings: http://www.homestoriesatoz.com/family/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-school-shootings.html
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