(June 10, 2014)
A teenage gunman armed with a rifle entered a high school outside of Portland, Oregon Tuesday morning and fatally shot a student and injured a teacher before he likely killed himself, police said. The gunman, whom police have not publicly identified, was found dead in a bathroom at Reynolds High School in Troutdale. It was not clear how he died.Another school shooting. Students "locked down" in classrooms. One brave (or just unlucky) teacher wounded, but continued to chivy students into classrooms. Teenage boy with a rifle smokes himself in the boys room.
It wasn't quite a "massacre" this time, which leads one to wonder whether the murderer targeted his victim specifically, or just ran out of nerve. Or ammunition. At least he saved one bullet for himself, although we could wish he would have used that one first and saved the rest of us a lot of grief.
Follow-up (June 11, 2014)
Obama: Gun Law Inaction My Biggest Frustration
(Politico, June 10, 2014)
President Barack Obama said Tuesday [in reaction the Oregon School shooting - Ed.] that it was “stunning to me” that Congress did not take real action to tighten gun laws following the late 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
"My biggest frustration so far is that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps to keep guns out of the hands of people who can do just unbelievable damage,” Obama said during a question-and-answer session hosted by microblogging platform Tumblr that came hours after a school shooting in Oregon.
He added that shortcomings in mental health care failed to account for the unusually high number of U.S. mass shootings relative to other nations. “The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people,” he said.
The president said he supports the Second Amendment but still sees a need for tighter rules. “I respect gun rights but the idea that, for example, we couldn’t get a background check bill in — it makes no sense,” he said.
The President apparently had no comment on the 30 people shot in Chicago last weekend ... in the city with some of the most restrictive "gun control" laws in the nation; especially he did not comment on why Chicago has taken "... basic steps to keep guns out of the hands of people who can do just unbelievable damage .... " and yet retains its reputation as "The Murder Capitol of America".
In all this bizarre combination of Violence, Tragedy and Politics, one thing is certain:
However much President Obama deplores the 'random' violence in America he will never criticize the violence in his 'home town' except to suggest that "Rahm Emanuel * is doing yeoman's work to resolve the issues in that Great City". Or words to that effect ... even though Emanuel's work so far has not diminished crime, violence or shooting in the city he rules as his own private fiefdom.
* Emanuel declined to be interviewed for this story. A spokeswoman provided this statement: “Leading a great city is a difficult job and there is much work left to do. But under Mayor Emanuel, Chicago is making steady progress in addressing the huge challenges that have built up over decades.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/rahm-emanuel-dc-hero-chicago-goat-107511.html#ixzz34JIHX242
As Robert Heinlein said
"One has to believe hard in fairies in order to save Tinker Bell's life."("The Number Of The Beast", 1980, pg. 195)
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