Shooting at Central High

[severity_softly]

School Shooting in Knoxville

And less than a month after that UU church shooting, too.

*sigh* What is happening to my city all of a sudden?

Comments

[innerslytherin]

:(

[delphini-2.livejournal.com]

There are things in life I guess we'll never ever understand. So tragic. I live in Australia and although we do have very bad things happen here, I'm thankful things arent to the point where we need metal detecters at some schools. That is so sad. Kids should feel safe at school. What is happening to the world, it just seems to be getting more violent.

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

*sigh* This kid that shot the other kid was 15. It's crazy. I graduated from high school just ten years ago, and there was never this kind of fear. Seems to have all started with Columbine just after I graduated. Or maybe if there was the threat of it when I was in school, I didn't notice it--I was, sort of, one of the "bad kids" back then, anyway... but actually shoot someone?! I would have never even considered! ("Bad kid" or not, I was always pretty much a pacifist--I have far too much empathy to hurt another human being.)

Apparently this shooting was a personal attack, which, I hate to put it this way, is at least better than someone going in and trying to blow away their whole school. Still, it's sad. Very, very sad. Thing is, I'm not even sure metal detectors are the issue. If some kids thinks he should kill someone (or multiple people), the sad fact is that they'll find a way around the metal detectors. They'll shoot up the quad during lunch or something so they don't have to go past them.

[delphini-2.livejournal.com]

It is very scary. I have a 9yr old daughter and sometimes I just want to wrap her in cotton wool and protect her from the world.

It's so hard. I don't let her watch the news. She gets so upset at the bad stuff that happens. How do you explain to a 9yr old all the horrible things that people do to each other, when adults can't even comprehend it.

:(

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

No kidding!

It has to be scary for parents. I'm not one, and don't intend to become one at this point, but I have a two year old niece that I adore that's going to have to grow up in all that scary stuff. She's not even my kid, and the thought worries me! Of course, this is a little girl who had open heart surgery at five months, scared us all to death, and has since come light years from where she was health-wise back then, so I'm almost convinced she's invincible now. *grin*