A few anomalies regarding the school shooting.

The shooter was teased for being poor. He was driving a $70,000,00 pickup and had a couple of very expensive rifles as well as wearing body armor. He shot his grandmother over an unpaid phone bill, drove away, got his truck stuck and started shooting at a funeral home. After 12 minutes of shooting at the funeral home he crossed the street and entered the school through an open door. He then barricaded himself in a room where he killed the kids and teachers. The cops gathered outside and did not try to enter the school because they said they didn't have a ballistic shield. Many parents gathered and urged the police to act. Federal marshals detained several parents. Other parents broke into the school and brought out their children. After an hour or so some Border Guards arrived, stormed the school and killed the shooter. The border guard who entered the room and killed the shooter was grazed by a bullet from the shooter. The bullet went through the border agent's baseball cap and opened a wound in the agent's scalp.

A few questions:
1) How did the shooter afford the truck, rifles and body armor if he couldn't pay his phone bill?
2) Where were the police when he was shooting at the funeral home?
3) Why were the doors of the school still open when there were shots being fired across the street from the school?
4) Why didn't the police do anything?
5) Why were there federal marshals there?
6) Why were the police and federal marshals arresting parents?
7) Why were the border agents the ones to enter the building?
8) If lack of protection kept the cops out why did the border guards go in without adequate protection?

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

... or wouldn't pay, the bill?

Has his grandmother survived? I saw one report that she has.

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@ArishMell I read that she did survive but I honestly don't know. Just one report on one website.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@hippyjoe1955 I think I heard it as quoted from a newspaper, but obviously what happened in the school overshadows all else.

A terrible atrocity, and so utterly pointless.

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@ArishMell You are so absolutely correct. What terrible thing to happen. There is no words to describe the evil that was committed. Sadly the simpletons want to blame guns when in fact guns were just the tool used to do the evil. No worse than the truck or the body armor. It was the evil in the perps heart along with the evil in those who enabled him to do this horrific act. The lot of them need to have their lives terminated including the complicit cops, negligent teachers, and especially those who were controlling the entire scene. Sorry but there simply is no other explanation. No amount of incompetence is that great. This was planned and executed with precision timing.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@hippyjoe1955 Why blame the victims?

Yes, the gun was the tool of the evil, but why is life so easy for the evil? This has proven yet again just how easy it is in the US for a civilian to buy weapons designed solely to kill as many people as possible a rapidly as possible, on a battlefield in war. Why would a civilian ever want such a weapon?

It's questions like those that people far from the USA ask, but receive no convincing replies.

Many Americans now call for "background checks" on gun ownership. I think some States at least, do have these, but shouldn't they be cohesive and nation-wide?

Well, we have had parallels in the UK, for other reasons, and seen that they do not always work because obviously but such enquiries can only show that the subject has an innocent past. That's not to say they are pointless, far from it. Nevertheless, they cannot foretell the future, and an individual really intent on evil acts is likely to hide his intentions. US law simply makes it so easy to buy powerful mass-murder weapons - no other country does that. Some of the out-and-out criminal fraternity, and obviously terrorist organisations, manage to obtain them, but there is no casual, open warfare-weapons retaining.

Though this may vary from State to State, a friend visiting the USA found an ordinary supermarket would sell him rifle rounds but not beer - yet he was a foreigner whose only ID he was carrying in the shop was his UK Driving Licence! He was re-paying ammunition spent by invitation on a host's private range. His host had proudly showed the visitor his arsenal of about twenty weapons, with the comment that "some have lots more!"

Whatever it needs, common reactions like quick and easy blaming of "mental illness" and victims, vaguely fearing unspecified "tyranny" and fetishising an amended 18C militia law, won't wash. All countries - including mine I know only too well - have their own serious social and cultural problems; but of the rich, "developed" countries it's only America that has so many inhabitants who seem to think the solution is simply yet more guns. Many Americans would probably agree, but face a deep-rooted culture of violence, and a rich gun lobby far more powerful politically than its relative population.

NO - such problems need serious social and cultural answers, with deep and genuine cross-party political support; but sadly, those seems as far away as ever.

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