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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just read the victims were all in the same classroom. I can't stop thinking about the surviving kids being alone in a room with their teachers and most of their classmates dead. It literally hurts my heart. And yet, nothing will be done to prevent another one.[/quote]

It sounds like everyone in the classroom was either killed or wounded.  They said area hospitals treated at least 20 people -- given the number hat were dead on the scene, that sounds like one very crowded classroom.  (My own 4th grade class growing up in the SW had 40 kids in it.)  There were interviews with kids in the adjoining rooms that could hear their friends being shot in the next room over, including one kid that had recently transferred classes.  It sounds like the LEO focused on getting all the kids in other rooms evacuated and waited for the tactical team to storm the room where he was barricaded -- there may well not have been another option.  Barricades are really bad, and LEO hate them for this reason.  I haven't seen anything that says how long he was actually in the room shooting -- I hope for the children's sake that it wasn't long.
It's all really awful, and reading the WaPo article is also heartbreaking in the number of missed opportunities with this young man.

Why a car needs insurance and a license but a gun doesn't?
Why an 18 year old can't legally buy beer, or rent a rental car, but can easily buy assault rifles?
Why someone with this kind of history, including multiple police calls to their house and significant school truancy, could purchase a weapon?

It's all really inexplicable.  The gun lobbyists really make the tobacco industry look like angels.  Any every single congressperson that votes against these laws should burn in hell.

Finally, we need a community culture where anytime people see someone posting this stuff on social media, or bragging about it to friends, a call is made to someone.  I think kids are now realyl good about reporting when friends express intent to self harm -- if a friend says "I'm going to kill myself", most young people will call someone to alert them.  We need that same level of concern when someone posts something that is a gun fetish or a violent threat.  
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