[aldo_14]

The school in Colorado where the shooting occured is one of those small, rich, public schools where no one expects this kind of thing.

Would you expect it any other school?

[Mars]

Montbello? Yeah... there's somone stabbed fairly regularly there. Overland? Not usually, but I could see it.

[aldo_14]

Montbello? Yeah... there's somone stabbed fairly regularly there. Overland? Not usually, but I could see it.

You'd actually expect a school shooting?  (serious question)

[Mars]

In some High schools, I wouldn't expect, but I wouldn't be surprised at all. Montbello in particular is basically gang run, and it isn't the worst.

[NGTM-1R]

Just for a political commentary, I recall reading a report on this a few days after it happened, where it mention that this was something like the third school shooting in as many weeks. Only in America, eh?

Only the second in three weeks in America. The other was Canadian.[/nitpick]

That aside, apparently they can't actually confirm that anything the guy said on the phone to his wife was true. It appears he might have been talking out of his ass, so the motive is still up in the air.

[aldo_14]

In some High schools, I wouldn't expect, but I wouldn't be surprised at all. Montbello in particular is basically gang run, and it isn't the worst.

I find it baffling to have a situation, in any country, where a shooting in a school would be anything less than utterly shocking.  Hell, even a school stabbing is major news here (of course, the smaller UK population means we have less opportunity for such a thing to happen).

[Kosh]

Only the second in three weeks in America. The other was Canadian.[/nitpick]

There was another one where a 15 year old kid walking into his school and shot his principle.

[ToecrusherHammerjaw]

You sure you're not thinking of April 2003, the Red Lion shooting?  The kid was 14, and I would know.  I went to school there.

[Slasher]

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/710040.html

[Triple Ace]

I was listening to the raido on my way to work when they played a tape with an interview with a woman. This woman said those dead amish girls deserved to die. I wanted to reach through my radio and hit that *****. They did nothing to deserve what they got. People make me sick.

[Kosh]

I was listening to the raido on my way to work when they played a tape with an interview with a woman. This woman said those dead amish girls deserved to die. I wanted to reach through my radio and hit that *****. They did nothing to deserve what they got. People make me sick.

How did she justify that reasoning?

[vyper]

I imagine the same way people justify saying that homosexuality is responsible for US army deaths. "God did it".

[Triple Ace]

I was listening to the raido on my way to work when they played a tape with an interview with a woman. This woman said those dead amish girls deserved to die. I wanted to reach through my radio and hit that *****. They did nothing to deserve what they got. People make me sick.

How did she justify that reasoning?

She really didn't. I think she was some kind of religious nut. Even after the interview said something about some of the girls being put on hooks and raped, she still said they deserved it. After the tape, the radio host had to take a break. He was getting very emotional and started to cry, and this was on a rock/metal station.

[Mongoose]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that she was one of those Westboro Baptist ****ers.  I don't think I'm the type of person that could be easily driven to commit murder, but if anything could do it, it'd be some of the vile **** that those people spew.

[Polpolion]

Every religion has its share of radicals...

[Triple Ace]

And thats why I'm glad not to be part of a religion and not having religious beliefs either.

[NGTM-1R]

Of course, there are collectively more non-religious radicals than religious ones, so that just makes you more likely to be one. Catch-22.