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Student brings gun on school field trip, shoots self in front of classmates
KSL via CNN Newsource ^ | Dan Rascon

Posted on 09/26/2025 4:45:04 PM PDT by jacknhoo

OREM, Utah (KSL) – Students from a school in Utah are traumatized after a classmate brought a gun on a field trip and shot themselves in front of others.

Police said the ninth grader from Canyon View Junior High shot themselves while on a field trip at South Fork Park.

That student was flown to a local hospital, where they died.

KSL does not normally report on suicides, but because the student brought a gun to school and fired it in front of other students, it brings it to another level.

A group of ninth grade students put up a memorial outside the school in memory of the student who died.

They didn’t want to talk on camera, but said they heard the gunshot, which shocked and scared everyone.

Further information was not released.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: arth; atrociousgrammar; banglist; canyonviewjrhigh; education; mentalillness; orem; pronouns; pronounscanbefatal; southforkpark; suicide; transpsycho; utah

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To: JimRed

Yeah...


121 posted on 09/27/2025 6:22:59 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: lastchance; Tunehead54
It's not that the posters are callous toward the tragedy, it's that we've become too inured by the ongoing stream of news stories about these addled and misled young people killing themselves or others for no rational reason.

The blame lies solidly at the feet of the teachers who encourage such self-deception in order to create new radicals, the medical industry purposely misdiagnosing mental illness for profit and sorry-ass parents treating their children's adolescent phase as if it requires drugs or mutilation to get through.

Everyone acknowledges the tragedy. We're offended by reporting that perpetuates that problem.

122 posted on 09/27/2025 6:30:11 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (When in doubt I whip it out. Got on the girl's volleyball team it's a Free-for-All!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

ONLY IN AMERICA....can you commit one suicide with multiple deaths!

That is how special our mentally ill are treated!


123 posted on 09/27/2025 6:38:53 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: jacknhoo

I hope the kids celebrated the brains sprayed all over them by the VERY SPECIAL f-ed up mentally ill celebrated idiot in fr9nt of them.

No crying, just a celebration of life!


124 posted on 09/27/2025 6:40:30 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: jacknhoo

That’s the first thing I picked up too.


125 posted on 09/27/2025 6:43:57 AM PDT by mware
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To: redfreedom

Of course. When anyone complains, I tell them that was the way I was taught, and they’ll have to kill me to make me change pronoun modes. ;-D


126 posted on 09/27/2025 7:21:56 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: jacknhoo

Shouldn’t that be “shot themself”?


127 posted on 09/27/2025 7:50:32 AM PDT by gnickgnack2 ( Oh, Trumpy days are here again....)
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To: kiryandil

So “they” should’ve used a silver hammer?


128 posted on 09/27/2025 7:54:41 AM PDT by gnickgnack2 ( Oh, Trumpy days are here again....)
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To: jacknhoo

Most teenageers minds are on a roller-coaster it takes strong family ties to make it through those years.

The most dangerous years of ones life.


129 posted on 09/27/2025 7:56:57 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: MikelTackNailer

It is scary and enraging that the blame does lie in the most part in those who once were protectors of children.


130 posted on 09/27/2025 8:37:44 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: All; jacknhoo; E. Pluribus Unum; Toddsterpatriot; Aria; truthkeeper; xp38; metmom; ...

It seems the writer has caused confusion with a plural pronoun.

The boy’s obituary, the Facebook post about his death, and the comments all refer to him as “he.” I don’t see any indication that he used “they/them” pronouns or that he was “trans.”

Unless I missed something... I just wanted to correct the record here because his family might see this thread.

So sorry for this boy and the innocent kids who were there...


131 posted on 09/27/2025 2:05:01 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Tired of Taxes
It seems the writer has caused confusion with a plural pronoun.

That was not an accident.

132 posted on 09/27/2025 2:07:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Agreed...
Teenaged kid
such a loss.
Sorry.


133 posted on 09/27/2025 2:10:30 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Honestly, the article was written properly. It’s some people who want to read the worst into situations. To some, they are hammers and everything looks like a nail.

The death of any young person is a tragedy. I feel so sad for the parents.


134 posted on 09/27/2025 2:10:52 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Tired of Taxes

I agree...in this case, we should not lose sight of the fact that this was a boy who took his own life and traumatized his family and schoolmates.

I do blame the Left for this pursuit of what might simply be a red herring in any case. They have forced us to have to read between the lines instead of being straightforward about news.


135 posted on 09/27/2025 2:12:38 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: Tired of Taxes; All

Valid point. Thanks for the update. The info you cited has cleared things up considerably. AFB-XYZ


136 posted on 09/27/2025 2:16:05 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (( We have two options: 1. Stand up, or 2. Bend over))
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To: Tired of Taxes

Well said. Thank you for doing all that research. It is indeed tragic and an unnecessary burden on the family to obfuscate to the point of mischaracterization.


137 posted on 09/27/2025 2:45:42 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: jacknhoo
Go figure, instead of lamenting the death of a clearly mentally ill child, folks here focus on the pronouns used by the writer.

FR has become nothing but a trash hole of insensitive bigots.

So much for that "Compassionate Christian" BS this site professes.......SMH!

138 posted on 09/27/2025 2:53:52 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Tired of Taxes

This has NOTHING to do with the woke “choose your pronouns”, trans, or woke issues.

It has to do with basic forever grammar rules of “agreement”.

“the ninth grader from Canyon View Junior High shot themselves... “

“the ninth grader” is singular.
“themselves” is plural.

Correct would be “shot himself”.


139 posted on 09/27/2025 2:58:44 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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