This is rather scary... today in Minnesota a shooter killed at least seven (some reports say 10) students, shortly after shooting his grandparents dead.
Almost six years since the Columbine killings. Scarier still is the fact that only a few days ago Canadian police busted two students who were planning a similar plot in New Brunswick:
This kind of stuff is terrifying. I can't even begin to imagine what's going through these kids' heads when they decide to pull that trigger. Sure.. School is hard, life is hard, everything is hard when you're 15... But to take it that step further and ruin the rest of your life, as well as end other peoples' lives? That's just.. impossible to imagine. For me at least...
Terry Shiavo is a women in Florida who has been on life support/a feeding tube for a long time (I think since early 1990s). Her husband wants the tube removed, but her parents/siblings want it to stay in. Her husband claims she told him she would have wanted it removed had she been able to talk. Meanwhile her family says that she wouldn't want that to happen and that the husband has since found another woman and has had children with her.
A Florida judge said that the tube should be removed and it was, but then Congress passed a bill saying that it should be put back in, to preserve her life and do as her family wants. Needless to say it has stirred up quite a controversy in the US and also in Canada.
But personally I'd rather hear about the shootings and stuff at school because that affects me more (seeing as I'm still in a high school). However I did hear something about the police arresting some students and others being suspended indefinately for some plot concerning planting bombs at their school or another school in Canada (but I didn't know it was New Brunswick). So the Canadian arrests haven't gone completely off the news.
However I was unaware of the Colombine-like shooting in the US. Which is surprising since I watched the news last night and the shooting would have happened by then.
St. John, New Brunswick. Just south of me. Probably the nearest 'big' highschool after my own.
There was more then a little concern over it, but not too much, since these people were seen as incredibly exceptional and unusual. It was pointed out that they were believed to have been plotting the bombing in response to bullying, and thus people are being reminded of the potential consequences of their actions.
As for the shooting, it's very sad that this sort of thing still happens. How many people get murdered by guns every year in America? There are countless possible explinations for this act, which I'm surprised we haven't heard yet (the Terry thing is dominating the news it seems) and I doubt it'll ever be known, but some constructive action beyond grief occasionally punctured by vague promises would be a nice change of pace.
