So why do you refuse to see the usa has a problem with gun violence?

If we're going to start in about school shootings (which this clearly wasn't), here's an interesting true story.... The first time I ever heard of this happening was in the late 70's. The term "school shooting" hadn't even been invented yet. The older brother of a girl I was in Jr high with took his dad's shotgun to school one day. When challenged by his art/drafting teacher he told him he was intending to draw the gun. A short time later he blasted one of his classmates with it, after which the gun jammed. Since he was bullied by more than just the one guy people have wondered (including myself) just how many kids would have gotten killed that day.

It's a long read but worth it.... When school shootings were unthinkable - Winnipeg Free Press
Mostly written from the perspective of a teacher who was actually there that day.

Btw, Vaughan Pollen, the student who killed fellow student Ken Maitland with one blast from a shotgun, was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

This went down a good 20-odd years before "Columbine" and all those high-profile ones covered by CNN in the 90's.

I got curious one day a few years back and looked up the history of school shootings around the world and was quite surprised at the stats. To see countries like Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Australia, etc on the list was quite surprising to me. The US may have the most of any other country but more happen outside of America than you might think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting

Some of the earliest ones listed happened as far back as the 1880's. Banning of guns doesn't seem to determine which countries will or won't have school shootings.

Huh? You're as bad as Roctard putting words into my mouth.

Kindly show me one place where I have ever said that.

I'll be waiting....

Tell that to Moms Demand Action. :thumbsup

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Please don't put me in the same boat as Rochard...

Please don't make inaccurate statements about what I have or haven't said.

Sorry to bring the insults so low as to make the comparison....

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LOL, You're right. That would make a fun parody. :1orglaugh

Fair enough :-)

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I remember that, and read that exact article a few months ago.

I was telling someone that Winnipeg had a school shooting years ago and they didn't believe me, so I sent them that link. Good ol' Sturgeon Creek.

People were FREAKING out at the time I recall, but I was only ten, so don't remember much other than the headlines...and asking my parents if I should still go to school lol.

no shots fired but stabbed someone. thats something for me.

I was 15 at the time. My parents still live just a few minutes away by car from Sturgeon Creek High. One of my sisters attended that school just a few years before it happened. The jr high I was at is close to SCR, and as I said the guy's younger sister was a classmate of mine.

And just as the article said, there was no 'protocol' in place to handle such an event back then. There was no special counceling for anyone, no one even knew what PTSD was yet. You went on, you dealt, you went back to school the next day and you eventually moved past it and got over it. Or at least that's what everyone thought.

I don't recall anyone calling for a ban on all guns though after this tragedy.