Not to down play these tradgedies (sp?). I do feel the deepest sympathies for these people.
But, however, where I grew up, school shootings, especially in high school, happened often. We had an ambulance and a few police cars that would sit outside the school every single day just waiting for things to happen. We had metal detectors, bars on the windows, and security guards that locked down the school between classes. We had bomb threats on a regular basis.
Now, my school wasn't all that unique. They were all like that, more or less. But we were never in the media, no press came to see when a teacher got stabbed or whatever.
Now, my main point is, my schools were not in surburbia and not at all white -- i.e. broke, minority, and urban -- i.e. nobody cared. This has been happening and it does happen every day. It's only a tradgedy when it happen to white America. It's normal when it happen to minority America.
Just had to chime in on this one. It does burn me up.
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