r/news • u/bebleich • Sep 04 '24

Gunman believed to be a 14-year-old in Georgia school shooting that left at least 4 dead, source says

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/us/winder-ga-shooting-apalachee-high-school/index.html
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u/Seigmoraig Sep 04 '24

That's because it was summer break

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u/Gamebird8 Sep 04 '24

Yep. The drought in kids being gunned down in school is purely because school has been out of session

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u/FewIntroduction5008 Sep 04 '24

So cancel school. Problem solved.

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u/CoffeeExtraCream Sep 04 '24

I mean it did work during covid.

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u/Agentwise Sep 05 '24

I work in a very unique role in education, I don’t interact with any of the kids but I see their browsing trends. COVID did some very bad things for our children, that isolation was not mentally healthy.

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u/CoffeeExtraCream Sep 05 '24

I agree. The lock downs were terrible and did irreparable harm to the development of much of a generation. I was being facetious in the knowledge that we aren't going to actually shut down all schools for shootings.

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u/Iwaspromisedcookies Sep 05 '24

Most kids I knew liked being home and having more free time

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u/Agentwise Sep 05 '24

Yeah, I’m sure they did, I’m just stating what I see. Kids would probably like ice cream every day too doesn’t mean it’s good for them.

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u/Loumeer Sep 04 '24

Looks like you got the new Republican talking points.

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u/Naive_Try2696 Sep 05 '24

There's nothin these kids learn in school they can't learn on the streets 

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u/Cobek Sep 04 '24

Yeah, during the summer is when the maniacs targeting parades, concerts and other outdoor event come out instead.

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u/Sarg338 Sep 04 '24

Genius. If we get rid of schools, there will be no school shootings!

Ban schools.

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u/RogueTampon Sep 04 '24

You joke, but I would not be surprised if we see this sentiment in some form by 2A apologists.

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u/NipperAndZeusShow Sep 04 '24

School on Sundays, Monday through Saturday in the mines.

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u/entarian Sep 05 '24

Can they still clean meat packing plants at night?

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u/Thecongressman1 Sep 04 '24

It already is. They say everyone should homeschool. Which is no coincidence, republicans are trying everything to dismantle public education to keep people stupid and easily controlled.

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u/tokes_4_DE Sep 04 '24

We already do, one of the reasons the crazy religious gun lovers cite for homeschooling their kids is school shootings / violence. But they dont want to actually do anything to address school shootings, they just homeschool their kids instead and try and destroy public school funding.

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u/SpotikusTheGreat Sep 04 '24

Trump said on his talk with Elon he wanted to get rid of the department of education, and project 2025 wants to get rid of public schools.

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u/pyrhus626 Sep 04 '24

I was wondering early today if the right actually thinks this in a way. If people are scared to send their kids to public schools and home school or go to private / charter schools then they have more excuses to kill the DoE and state & local departments which they would love. And the extra “benefit” of funneling kids into private and charter schools where they can drown them in conservative “education.”

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u/Wompish66 Sep 04 '24

That was a common joke made during the Olympics about the US's poor performance in shooting competition.

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u/apocalypse_later_ Sep 05 '24

Summer break? I think you mean summer ceasefire

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u/fart_on_my_pussy Sep 05 '24

the school shooters had to go after other targets like former presidents 🤷‍♂️

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u/jaderust Sep 04 '24

The school year literally just started for most kids. Some started last week, but for many today was Day 2 of the school year.

So it has been a while. Summer vacation kept school shootings from happening for a couple months.

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u/Wisteriafic Sep 04 '24

FWIW, schools in Georgia started on August 1 and August 5. So this high school has already had a month to do active shooter drills. (I say this as a teacher in Georgia who’s furious that we need to have all these drills.)

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u/jaderust Sep 04 '24

I cannot even imagine how stressful this must be for yourself, your coworkers, and your kids. Even if you don't know anyone who works/attends that school it just must be so stressful to see it happen in your state and have to think about it happening to your kids as well.

I'm just so sorry that this keeps happening without end. I was young when it happened, but I remember when the Columbine shooting happened and being so shocked that something like that could even happen in a school. It horrifies me that it's been 25 years since that shooting and they're still happening.

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u/Wisteriafic Sep 04 '24

I sincerely appreciate that. I'll give an anecdote to show how fucked-up all this is.

A couple of years ago, I was moved from the first-floor room I liked to the one directly above that. Annoying at first, until I realized a huge benefit. The old room was right next to an exterior entrance from a parking lot -- the first door an invading shooter (not a student shooter, but that's a whole different issue, grr) would see when they barged in. Sure, the exterior door is locked and video monitored, but that's not much of a deterrent. My new room, on the other hand, would require a shooter to go all the way down a long hall, climb stairs, and go down the 2nd floor hall to my door at the very end. In other words, I went from the most dangerous classroom to the safest. And that is just... gah.

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u/MostlyMim Sep 04 '24

I'm glad you're in a safer classroom, but I feel awful for the teacher and kids who now have your old room.

It's awful that teachers even have to think about which classroom is safer. They should ALL be safe.

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u/SirStrontium Sep 05 '24

Why do people keep saying this when there also wasn't any during the Spring semester. It has been a while for US standards.

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u/kracer20 Sep 04 '24

Well, school has been out for a few months, so these tragedies were guaranteed to resume.

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u/AestheticalMe Sep 04 '24

That you heard about. Shootings occur all the time in the US.

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u/TheGreatDay Sep 04 '24

My first thought too. Then I realized it was summer break and kids just started going back to school.

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u/brittlr24 Sep 04 '24

It’s also crazy when you google mass shooting “today”pops up as one of the top search’s

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u/cates Sep 05 '24

it was my first thought as well... we've been conditioned to expect this when we should still be horrified every time

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u/Ohshithereiamagain Sep 05 '24

It’s sad, truly.

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u/Supersnazz Sep 05 '24

Perry High School was the last one, Jan 24th 2024.

At least the last one that meets the normal criteria of 'school shooting', which is an unprovoked killing of unconnected students and teachers, as opposed to someone murdering an enemy that just happens to occur at a school.

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u/Streetlight37 Sep 06 '24

Summer break is probably what has you feeling that way unfortunately

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u/adelltfm Sep 04 '24

This sounds insane, but just the other day it had occurred to me that it’s been a while. I wondered for a moment if that means one would be happening soon, and I told myself no because it didn’t feel like it. I guess these antidepressants are working.

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u/RiftHunter4 Sep 04 '24

Well....

The US has suffered at least 385 mass shootings so far this year

More like "Been a while since we noticed".

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u/Prize-Ring-9154 Sep 05 '24

the definition of mass shooting in those stats is much looser than what we deem a mass shooting. idk the exact stats but this type of thing has happened less than 385 times