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TUCKER CARLSON: They're numbed by the endless psychotropic drugs that are handed out in every school in the country by crackpots posing as counselors and of course, they're angry. They know that their lives will not be better than their parents. They'll be worse. That's all but guaranteed. They know that. They're not that stupid and yet, the authorities in their lives, mostly women, never stops lecturing them about their so-called privilege. You're male. You're privileged. Imagine that. Try to imagine an unhealthier, unhappier life than that. So, a lot of young men in America are going nuts. Are you...

Jeff May, 16, has been awarded the title of "hero" in a national poll. But for him the recognition always will be linked in his mind to tragedy. Reader's Digest magazine has named May, who is credited with saving others' lives during last spring's shooting at Red Lake High School, as its Hero of the Year. May was shot in the face after he tried to wrestle the gunman, schoolmate Jeff Weise, to the ground. It has been a long and difficult struggle for May — who turned 16 on Friday — since the shootings nearly a year ago. And...

An AP Story that ran in USA Today said that Weise posted information about his own mental state in the months before he killed nine people and himself. But the story failed to note that his comments included favorable references to using marijuana or MJ. Weise said, "MJ is my gal of choice." A March 25 Washington Post article by Blaine Harden and Dana Hedgpeth said Weise had serious mental problems but ignored the pot connection. A March 24 Post article by Ceci Connolly and Dana Hedgpeth described "a deeply disturbed youth who had been treated for depression in a...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The Star Tribune warned its readers Saturday that some might be offended by a comic strip about the Red Lake Indian Reservation shootings. In the syndicated ''La Cucaracha'' strip that also ran Saturday, a teacher asks what President Bush might have said to console those affected by the shootings last month which left 10 people dead, including the teenage gunman.One student answers, ''I'm really so sorry you're not an Anglo suburban reservation.'' Another says, ''You shoulda stuck to arrows.'' A third says, ''Pow? Wow!''Editor Anders Gyllenhaal, in a note to readers, said the paper was not aware...

RED LAKE, MINN. -- A percolating debate about whether teenage gunman Jeff Weise should be called a "victim" is turning financial. Families of Red Lake High School shooting victims set to receive a flood of financial support from across the country have seen only a trickle so far. Yet there are angry divisions about whether Weise, who on March 21 killed his grandfather, his grandfather's companion, a teacher, a school guard and five schoolmates before taking his own life, should be called a victim. "Why are they considering him to be a victim when he killed everybody?" asked Victoria Brun,...

WHAT COULD drive a child to kill? That’s the question residents of the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota are asking after 16-year-old Jeff Weise shot to death his grandfather and grandfather’s partner, before killing seven people at Red Lake High School--including a teacher, security guard and five classmates--and finally turning the gun on himself. This is the worst school shooting since the killings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in 1999. The media focused on the strange blend of neo-Nazi politics that Weise, an Native American, seemingly embraced. But the real source of such a desperate and terrible...

Wounded by two police bullets, Jeff Weise made his way back to a bloody classroom where he'd killed six people, put his grandfather's shotgun under his chin and pulled the trigger. An e-mail account from a sheriff's deputy, obtained by The Associated Press, sketches a more complete picture of last week's attack at Red Lake High School. Weise killed himself with a shotgun after being hit in the hip and leg, according to the March 26 e-mail, which also said a heroic security guard was shot first in the chest, then in the back. In all, nine people died in...

Only a gun could have stopped Jeff Weise MARK YOST, St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted on Tue, Mar. 29, 2005 In the week since teenage gunman Jeff Weise walked into Red Lake Senior High School and killed five students, a teacher and a security guard before killing himself, the usual voices from the usual precincts have been asking: What can we do to keep this from happening next time? How about arming security guards, as well as a handful of administrators and teachers who volunteer to be properly trained?I can hear the gasps echoing from Mac-Groveland to Crocus Hill. But...

Suspect Arrested in Minnesota Shootings March 28, 2005 11:17 PM EST RED LAKE, Minn. - The teenage son of the tribal chairman has been arrested in connection with last week's shootings on a Minnesota Indian reservation, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation said Monday. Louis Jourdain, son of Floyd Jourdain Jr. and a student at Red Lake High School, where most of the killings took place, was arrested Sunday, the source told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity. Nine people were killed in last Monday's attacks before 16-year-old gunman Jeff Weise, also a student at...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - (KRT) - The teenage son of Red Lake Nation tribal chairman Floyd Jourdain has been arrested on federal charges stemming from last week's deadly school shooting on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Louis Jourdain, 15, a student at Red Lake Senior High School where Jeff Weise fatally shot five students, a teacher, a security guard, his grandfather and the grandfather's companion before killing himself March 21, was taken into custody Sunday evening, according to sources with knowledge of the arrest. One of the sources, who spoke on the condition his name not be used, said Jourdain...

RED LAKE, Minn. - A juvenile has been arrested in last week's shooting rampage on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, federal authorities said Monday. They would not say how the juvenile was believed to be connected to the attack, which left 10 people dead, including the 16-year-old gunman. U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger said the juvenile was arrested Sunday, but declined to give any details, including the age and gender of the juvenile. Heffelfinger said federal law required him to withhold the details. The gunman, Jeff Weise, a student with a history of depression, shot to death his grandfather and the...

Federal authorities in the United States have announced the arrest of a juvenile in connection to last week’s shooting rampage at a high school on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Officials would not say how the youth was involved in the attack, which left 10 people dead, including the 16-year-old gunman. US Attorney Tom Heffelfinger said the juvenile had been arrested a day earlier, but declined to reveal any further details, including the age or gender of the youth. Investigators said last week that Jeff Weise had acted alone in the shooting, which shocked the tightly-knit community, in the northern...

RED LAKE, Minn. - Federal authorities no longer believe that Red Lake school shooter Jeff Weise acted alone. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has confirmed that authorities have arrested a juvenile today in connection with the the Red Lake school shooting, which occurred a week ago. The shooter, Jeff Weise, took his own life after killing nine people, including his grandfather, several students, a security guard, and a teacher. A federal search warrant was executed on the Red Lake Reservation today, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has also learned. Up to this point, authorities have continually said that the Weise acted alone. The arrest...

Apostles of hatred find message easy to spread I just visited the Web site that fascinated Jeff Weise, the 16-year-old who shot up his high school last week on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota. There, I learned that the tribes of humanity must be separated or risk destruction by assimilation. That Jews are a "fanatical religious-ethnic" group conspiring to control communications media. And that for all the dubious talk about a "Holocaust," you never hear about the good things Adolf Hitler did. I also read the posts that Weise left on the site's bulletin board. I was particularly interested...

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR London ADOLESCENTS don't conceive the notion of strafing their classmates in a vacuum; they get the idea from cable TV. Bad news in itself, the 10-fatality reprise of the American school shooting last week at the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota bolsters the archetype. It makes a trend that had seemed to subside since Columbine in 1999 seem current again, and prospectively gives more boys big ideas. The lessons we've been meant to learn from school shootings have been legion. We need better gun control. We need to be more understanding of misfits. We need to stop...

Polaris Jeff Weise, whose rampage killed 10 people, took antidepressants. RED LAKE, Minn., March 25 - In their sleepless search for answers, the family of Jeff Weise, the teenager who killed nine people and then himself, says it is left wondering about the drugs he was prescribed for his waves of depression. On Friday, as Tammy Lussier prepared to bury Mr. Weise, who was her nephew, and her father, who was among those he killed, she found herself looking back over the last year, she said, when Mr. Weise began taking the antidepressant Prozac after a suicide attempt that...

RED LAKE, Minn. (AP) - The obituary in the small town paper was heartbreaking: Chase Albert "Beka" Lussier, born Dec. 23, 1989, died March 21 at Red Lake High School. A freshman who played basketball and loved computer games. Six paragraphs down, beside the photograph of a chubby-cheeked, smiling boy, came this sentence: "He spent his time juggling life between his family and his son." A father at 15. Dead three months later. Shot with eight others by an alienated, despondent upperclassman who, at the end of his 10-minute walk through Red Lake High School, turned one of his guns...

THE MINNESOTA SCHOOL SHOOTING AND THE RACE CARD...AGAIN!  By Michelle Malkin   ·   March 25, 2005 10:01 AM  A few days ago, I noted that some ethnic grievance-mongers were griping that there wasn't enough coverage of the Minnesota school shootings because many of the victims were Native American.The race card-playing continues in the Friday A section of the Washington Post, under the eye-roll-inducing headline: Native Americans Criticize Bush's Silence Response to School Shooting Is Contrasted With President's Intervention in Schiavo Case  Ceci Connolly writes: MINNEAPOLIS, March 24 -- Native Americans across the country -- including tribal leaders, academics and rank-and-file...

Native Americans across the country -- including tribal leaders, academics and rank-and-file tribe members -- voiced anger and frustration Thursday that President Bush has responded to the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history with silence. Three days after 16-year-old Jeff Weise killed nine members of his Red Lake tribe before taking his own life, grief-stricken American Indians complained that the White House has offered little in the way of sympathy for the tribe situated in the uppermost region of Minnesota. "From all over the world we are getting letters of condolence, the Red Cross has come, but the so-called Great...

Following the teen shootings in Minnesota, Fred de Sam Lazaro of Twin Cities Public Television visits the Red Lake Indian Reservation to see how the community is coping. Then, two school safety analysts discuss detecting warning signs of teen violence. FRED DE SAM LAZARO: A remote, reclusive community in northern Minnesota, the Red Lake Reservation has cut itself off even more since the shootings. The anguish of the 5,000 or so Ojibwa Indians who live here has been mostly kept from the public. The media has been denied free access. We were offered one glimpse of a community's distress with...