Mar 22, 2005 03:13
i just found this on the yahoo news thing as i was about to check my email
any, this seems rather ironic to me, as there was talk about some kid shooting people at school last week.
BEMIDJI, Minn. - A high school student went on a shooting rampage on an Indian reservation Monday, killing his grandparents at their home and then seven people at his school, grinning and waving as he fired, authorities and witnesses said. The suspect apparently killed himself after exchanging gunfire with police.
It was the nation's worst school shooting since the Columbine massacre in 1999 that killed 13 people.
One student said her classmates pleaded with the gunman to stop shooting.
"You could hear a girl saying, 'No, Jeff, quit, quit. Leave me alone. What are you doing?" student Sondra Hegstrom told The Pioneer of Bemidji, using the name of the suspected shooter.
Before the shootings at Red Lake High School, the suspect's grandparents were shot in their home and died later. There was no immediate indication of the gunman's motive.
Authorities didn't identify the gunman, but a few media outlets identified him as Jeff Weise, citing students and tribal leaders. Accounts of Weise's age varied from 15 to 17, as did whether he was a current student at the school.
Relatives told the St. Paul Pioneer Press that WEISE WAS A LONER WHO USUALLY WORE BLACK CLOTHES AND WAS TEASED BY OTHER KIDS. Relatives told the newspaper his father committed suicide four years ago, and that his mother was living in a Minneapolis nursing home because she suffered brain injuries in a car accident.
in a sick way i suppose
i feel no remorse for the people who were shot in either the columbine shooting or this one.
i also feel no remorse for the communities, or this country as a whole when shit like this happens.
bullshit standards are set for what is "cool", and no one can shut the fuck up and actually listen to what people have to say anymore. and once something like this happens, blame is always put on 1.) guns and usually 2.) the music the kid(s) listened to, and even music they didnt listen to (like with the columbine shooting, when all of a sudden, marilyn manson was partially to blame, when cleybold and harris hated manson's music). people can never sit their dumb asses down and think for a second: maybe im also at fault?
it wasnt the gun, and it wasnt the fucking music he listened to that drove these kids to kill.
it was the people that were shot. and im not going to miss them one bit. fuck no.