Another school shooting, this time in Madison, Wisconsin, which is getting a little too close to my granddaughter’s school. Although, to be honest, a shooting in Florida is getting too close to her.
Nothing will be done to end this insanity. I know it, you know it.
Oh, no! why didn’t jebus protect them? I wonder, given the ever more violent nature of this failing society, has any one setup the SSOTD.COM (School Shooting Of The Day) website yet.
PZ wrote: Nothing will be done to end this insanity. I know it, you know it.
I reply, based on all available evidence, the insanity is spreading and will continue to do so. Yes, I know I am using the phrase a lot, but it is true: welcome to the New Dark Ages
Well, at least no CEOs were harmed.
As long as the media don’t do their job and go for easy right wing money (cough TYT, WaPo cough), pronouns will always be much more dangerous at schools than bullets.
Most Americans love their guns more than they love their children. Nothing will change until that changes.
The one thing about school shootings at private Christian schools (this isn’t the first) is that at least the morons of the punditry and pulpits can’t blame it on their usual suspects.
It can’t be ‘woke’. It can’t be ‘no prayer in schools’. It can’t be ‘the evils of evolution’.
They’ll never own up to the real cause, of course.
But at least for one brief week we don’t have to see those same boogeymen come up over and over from the far right punditry.
It usually means they’re just strangely quiet…but I’ll take their silence over their lies, any time.
I guess it’s just one of those things where a culture decides that a certain thing is inevitable, no matter how stupidly, obviously hurtful it is.
You know, like the electoral college, or the for-profit health care system, or the existence of the Republican party.
@#2 – nomaduk
Thanks for the giggle. When this CEO killing occurred, my brain twitched thinking society will accept the murdering of children but will not tolerate the murder of a CEO.
After the Sandy Hook shooting, I thought it was finally time, something would be done about guns. Was I ever wrong. All those prayers and thoughts must have adversely affected the psyche of America. I guess the killing of twenty unarmed 6- and 7-year-olds wasn’t enough.
LykeX @ 6
On the positive side, it only took Ireland a century to lose trust in the Catholic Church.
Not today, certainly. But it can’t go on forever.
@reitpluim #4: It’s not most Americans. Polls show consistently high levels of support for various gun control measures that somehow are never passed. That may be a reflection of where most of the money is, and it might also reflect the degree of passion on each side. But, from what I can see, that momentum is changing.
let’s look at a headline from this recent school shooting and from the ceo shooting:
“Teacher, student dead in shooting at Abundant Life Christian School”
vs
“Gunman at large after UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in ‘brazen targeted attack,’ police say”
“dead” vs “fatally shot”
“shooting” vs “brazen targeted attack”
a teacher and a student are killed by an armed gunman: meh
a ceo is killed by an armed gunman: OMG!!!!!111!!!1!1
“No way to prevent this tragedy, says only nation where it’s a regular occurrence.”
https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1819576527/
@10, 2 Yeah, shoot ONE CEO and there is endless speculation for days as to Why The Shooter Did It. A kid guns down other kids and adults in a school? No way to know what caused it and even less interest in finding out.
The only thing missing was “shots fired”, apparently by themselves.
@ 4 I’ve been saying that for years.
At some point, I am going to rework the Pied Piper of Hamlin as a guns and kids story. Especially the part where the piper asks for payment and when refused, takes the kids instead. Except in the original, the townspeople liked money more than their kids.
@13 silverhalide I love this idea. You could have the piper turn up every day and nab a few kids. And everyone is surprised and sorrowful every time. Get the prayer thing in there by having them all disappear from a church.
@stuffin #7:
And I thought the same after Columbine. In ten years’ time someone else will be thinking the same about 2034’s largest school massacre.
(Well, assuming there are any schools left by then, rather than Trumpian indoctrination camps ‘protected’ by razor wire fences and
armed guardssecurity educators.)