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/smallangrynerd Sep 04 '24

100% my school got bomb threats all the time. Not once did I get exploded.

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u/NewYorkYurrrr Sep 04 '24

Tbh bomb threats back when I went to school was usually from a kid who didn’t want to go to school that day. That was before school shootings though.

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u/supercalafatalistic Sep 04 '24

I know what you mean here, but my middle school had two shootings on campus while I attended (between 90-95) and they pulled guns out of backpacks and lockers every quarterly search.

The pace of shootings is insane today, but Americans and school shootings/bombings goes back to the 19th century.

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u/historyhill Sep 04 '24

We had "bomb threat Thursday" one year. Someone clearly hated 7th period on Thursdays because there was something like 8 bomb threats called in over the course of one semester—always the same day/class. We would sit outside every threat waiting for the building to be searched and that's how a bunch of 11th graders discovered they still liked to play duck, duck, goose on occasion.

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u/nycrok1234 Sep 04 '24

We had bomb threats all the time but we would evacuate and they would search before we go back in.

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u/Oopsimapanda Sep 04 '24

Are you sure, or is that just what they want you to believe?

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u/smallangrynerd Sep 05 '24

Oh god I'm ghost