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2007-04-16 16:49:23 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events Current Events

... Sept 11 happens and we increase security at airports.

... School shootings happen ... no security changes.

... would metal detectors at schools help? or hinder?

I lodged this question to create creative thinking ... not that it was predicable.

2007-04-16 17:23:40 · update #1

Freehugs ... your list was somewhat short, but good to see you were remembering many other school massacres. Lest we Forget.

2007-04-16 17:25:34 · update #2

9 answers

you people have a short memory

Enoch Brown school massacre -
Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States; July 26, 1764
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting#List_of_school_massacres

Bath School bombings disaster
Michigan, USA, on May 18, 1927
45 children in second to sixth grades dies
58 wounded


Poe Elementary School Attack - Houston, Texas,
United States; September 15, 1959
6 people dies

University of Texas at Austin Tower Massacre -
Austin, Texas, United States; August 1, 1966
15 people dies 31 wounded

Kent State shootings - Kent, Ohio,
United States; May 4, 1970
4 people dies 9 wounded

California State University, Fullerton Library Massacre
United States; July 12, 1976
7 people dies 2 wounded

Stockton Massacre - Stockton, California,
United States, 1989
killing 5 schoolchildren and 29 wounded

University of Iowa shooting - Iowa City, Iowa,
United States; 1991
shot 5 people to death, seriously wounded another

Simon's Rock College of Bard shooting
United States; December 14, 1992
2 people dies 4 wounded

Richland High School shooting
Tennessee, United States; November 15, 1995
2 people dies 1 seriously wounded

Frontier Junior High shooting
Washington, United States; February 2, 1996
3 people dies

Pearl High School shooting
Mississippi, United States; October 1, 1997
3 people dies including his own mother 7 wounded

Heath High School shooting
Kentucky, United States; December 1, 1997
3 girls dies 5 wounded

Jonesboro massacre
Arkansas, United States; March 24, 1998
5 people dies 10 wounded

Columbine High School massacre
Colorado, United States; April 20, 1999
12 people dies 24 wounded

Santana High School
California,United States; March 5, 2001
2 people dies 13 wounded

Rocori High School shootings
Minnesota, United States; 2003
2 people dies

Red Lake High School massacre -
Red Lake, Minnesota, United States; 2005
7 people dies 7 wounded

Amish school shooting -
Nickel Mines, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
United States; 2006
5 girls aged 7–13 dies

Platte Canyon High School shooting -
Bailey, Colorado, United States; 2006
six female students hostage and sexually assaulted them, later releasing four. When police entered the classroom, Morrison opened fire before shooting hostage Emily Keyes in the head

Henry Foss High School -
Tacoma, Washington, United States January 3, 2007
1 guy dies

and today we pray for the new one but not the last one

Virginia Tech massacre -
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States; April 16, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18134671/?GT1=9246

2007-04-16 16:54:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 2

And just tell me, how are we supposed to predict when this kind of tragedy is going to happen? Except, there should be more protection in school...like occasional security checks

2007-04-16 17:12:58 · answer #2 · answered by lildevilgurl152004 7 · 0 0

Obviously not. How can we prevent this from happening again? I'll tell you how---allow teachers to be armed. All it would have taken was 1 good shot to prevent 32 deaths.

2007-04-16 16:58:14 · answer #3 · answered by !!joinCampaignforLiberty!! 4 · 1 0

It is a horrible, horrible tragedy but it time, it will fade from public view. Only those who have suffered a personal loss will be faced with the struggle to overcome their grief and restructure their life.

Security guards can only provide a "sense" of security. They cannot provide virtual security. The objective of the security guard is to take control of the situation, keep people calm, stop panic.

After the reports have been filed, the investigations have been completed and the recommendations made, people will calm down and feel secure, then complacent.

Because of my personal experience, I favor allowing individuals to carry concealed weapons if they have had training and have not had a felony conviction. Most of the people in the self-help group Parents of Murdered Children have strong feelings about this issue as well as Citizens against Homicide. (Members of both national groups have suffered the loss of a loved one to homicide) Compassionate Friends is also a self-help group however it is for parents who have lost a child to any cause homicide, accidental death or disease.
http://www.pomc.com
http://www.pomc.org
http://www.murdervictims.com/CAH.html
http://www.compassionatefriends.org

On April 20, 999 at the Columbine High School shooting 22 students were killed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre

So far 33 have been confirmed dead at the shootings at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University — (located in the western end of the state near the borders of West Virginia and Tennessee). It has been called the worst mass shooting in modern American history. The shootings began in the Ambler Johnston Hall dormitory at 7:15 a.m. Eyewitnesses described the gunman as an Asian male about 6 feet tall. He apparently shot himself in the head after the killings; part of his face was missing when his body was found.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3045574&page=1

He was said to have quarrelled in a dormitory with his girlfriend, whom he believed had been seeing another man. A student adviser was called to sort out the row. But the killer produced a gun and shot dead both his girlfriend and the adviser.

The second shooting was at Norris Hall. Two hours later he rampaged through an engineering building on the other side of the campus in the town of Blacksburg, killing indiscriminately.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=448955&in_page_id=1811&ct=5

The gunman has been identified as a Chinese man who arrived in the United States last year on a student visa. The 24-year-old man arrived in San Francisco on United Airlines on Aug. 7 on a visa issued in Shanghai
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/343354,vatech041607.articleprint

The shooter wore bluejeans, a blue jacket and a vest holding ammunition, witnesses said. He carried a 9mm semiautomatic and a .22-caliber handgun, both with the serial numbers obliterated, federal law enforcement officials said. Witnesses described the shooter as a young man of Asian descent -- a silent killer who was calm and showed no expression as he pursued and shot his victims. He killed himself as police closed in.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/16/AR2007041600533_pf.html

He had ammunition strapped across his chest as he calmly walked from room to room refilling his two 9mm handguns as he shot students.

He locked the doors of several classrooms to stop anyone escaping. Some terrified students jumped for their lives from fourthfloor windows, while others used desks to barricade doors.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=448955&in_page_id=1811&ct=5

The number of dead is almost twice as high as the previous record for a mass shooting on an American college campus. That took place at the University of Texas at Austin on Aug. 1, 1966, when a gunman named Charles Whitman opened fire from the 28th floor of a campus tower. Whitman killed 16 and injured 31.

another good account
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070417/D8OI106O0.html
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2007-04-16 17:53:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Well the news we are hearing in Australia is that the guy was after his girlfriend. Unfortunatlly others had to pay for it.
a minority will never learn.

2007-04-16 16:55:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

It is so sad but when you have young men hurting well some go off their head or may be off their head to start with
you can never tell & as I said its heartbreaking

2007-04-16 16:56:04 · answer #6 · answered by ausblue 7 · 1 1

Arm the teachers, and it will stop.

2007-04-16 17:17:10 · answer #7 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0 0

"If we're supposed to forget the past, why teach history?"

2007-04-16 16:55:55 · answer #8 · answered by Jesus Murphy 3 · 3 1

What should we learn? What would you have done to prevent this?

2007-04-16 16:52:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

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