Student brings gun on school field trip, shoots self in front of classmates

KSL via CNN Newsource ^ | Dan Rascon

[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.

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[Does so]

“the student had more than 1 pronoun- hope that’s not the case though- don’t wanna see that stupid trend in writing”
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A solo Corvette traffic chase through SE New Hampshire ended with “them” being put under arrest, WMUR reported...

:-/

[exDemMom]

It could be that the “shot themselves” language is being used to create maximum privacy for the family. They didn’t give the name of the student, either.

[wardaddy]

Absurd verbiage
Must have been sexually confused

And then some

[rlmorel]

In Orwell's "1984", Winston discusses the developments in NewSpeak with Syme, the expert, who makes these following statements:

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“You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We’re destroying words–scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone.”

'It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great advantage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn’t only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other words? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take ‘good,’ for instance. If you have a word like ‘good,’ what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well–better, because it’s an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of ‘good,’ what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like ‘excellent’ and ‘splendid’ and all the rest of them? ‘Plusgood’ covers the meaning, or ‘doubleplusgood’ if you want something stronger still. Of course we use those forms already, but in the final version of Newspeak there’ll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words–in reality, only one word. Don’t you see the beauty of that, Winston?…”

“…In your heart you’d prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning…”

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime* literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten…”

“To narrow the range of thought.” Although we usually think of the spoken or written word when we think of language, isn’t the purpose of language truly to create ideas and order our thoughts? The expression of an idea from one person to another is actually secondary, because the idea must be developed first before it can be expressed. Innovations, creative visions, worldviews…are all developed in our minds. And although we do receive most of our thoughts and ideas from the world outside of us initially, all of those ideas were originally hatched inside of someone else’s mind. And once their ideas enter your mind, you can, in turn, turn them around and around and make them into something new by synthesizing all the concepts you hold in your head, which are only there because of the language that you know. This is why limiting words actually would result in a narrowing of thought.

“By 2050–earlier, probably–all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron–they’ll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be…The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”

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Astonishing, isn't it? For those keeping track, this kind of thinking is all on the side of the Left. No question. It is their playbook.

[PghBaldy]

It is much of the country, though some people say shootings and/or suicides can seemingly appear “contagious” in young people.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Dan got the headline wrong, it should say "shoots themself"... ROFL

Or maybe I should now say I feel so sorry for those Siamese twins. They were so sad of THEMSELVES they shot themself. Hehehe.

[Does so]

I guess THEY showed ‘em...

[Bernard]

"Press 1 for English" does not mean what it used to mean.

[Does so]

HEADLINE:

“Golfing Grandmother of six shoots a hole in one...!”

[Vermont Lt]

Well, we dont know the sex of the student. “Themselves” is proper in this context.

[Dennis M.]

What idiodic mutilation of the English language.

[Valpal1]

Was it intentional or accidental?

[youngidiot]

Reports indicate suicide.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

It is, “They shot theyself
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[Steely Tom]

Disarm pronouns.

[No name given]

Correct.

[No name given]

True.

[omni-scientist]

My first thought is that it was a Babylon Bee kind of satirical joke. But it turns out a wicked corruption of the language and should be a reflection on the writers stupidity.

[TXBlair]

…the ninth grader…shot themselves…”

I don’t understand. Was this student experiencing some type of multiple personalities sitch? Did one of the personalities take a whack at each of the other selves? This…does not compute…

[redfreedom]

Yup, and I still use “He” for gender neutral when speaking.