Posted on 03/21/2005 8:10:27 PM PST by neverdem
"Usually this happens at...white schools..."
Holy crap! Imagine if...white was replaced with...ANYTHING else!
What a tragedy!
Prayers going up for all those involved.
He injured twelve people in a burst with a pistol?
Why didn't people charge him, or something else? I never get that.
Subdivision 2. Penalty. Any Indian, other than a law enforcement officer who has authority to make arrests, who carries, holds or possesses a handgun in a motor vehicle, snowmobile or boat, or on or about his clothes or person, or otherwise in his possession or control in a public place without first having obtained a permit to carry the handgun from the Red Lake Law Enforcement Program is guilty of a gross misdemeanor, and the handgun involved may be confiscated.
Subdivision 4. Grounds for Denial of Permit. A permit to carry a handgun shall not be granted to the applicant if applicant: a) Is under the age of 18 years.
That said, this will no doubt be used by the anti-gun nuts to further their agenda. With this one and the recent one in WI, this will certainly give them more supporters.
"A teacher pulled the kids down on the ground, under the benches,"
This hide like a bunny thing isn't working. Run away if you can. If the shooter is blocking the exit, better to all run at him and over power him.
Why didn't people charge him, or something else? I never get that.
At the Wind River Indian Reservation in my state law enforcement remains the exclusive domain of the tribes, to handle as they see fit. IRC, treaties bar federal troops from even setting foot on the reservation. Several years ago a man shot up his entire family. One of his wounded relatives phoned the tribal police, who in turn waited at the perimeter while everyone to bled to death. The man finally committed suicide. American Indians look at death as part of life.
Today is a good day to die for all the things of my life are present. - Crazy Horse
Wife and I taught in a village school and the child abuse, alcohol/drug abuse, and social dysfunction was pervasive; half the younger people died before the age of 25.
Probably 75% of village members were alcoholics and yet the remaining 25% practically killed themselves trying to stop the flow of booze into their communities. Seemed like the state liquor board, white lodge/bar owners, and most of the natives themselves wanted the booze to flow.
No joke, every family had lost half of their family to booze. Imagine burying 3 or 4 of your kids.
All the probs go right back to alcohol. The time we spent in native land sure opened our eyes to the scope of the problem. Pretty good people if they could just get a handle on the booze.
All the probs go right back to alcohol.
Now that you mention it, IIRC, alcohol played a role in the incident cited in my previous post.
and it is hardly on the news at all. Is this because they can't get reporters and cameras to the scene?
Blame the white man. Everybody else does.
Tragic. Prayers for the dead.
The school had metal detectors. The guards were unarmed. The presense of metal detectors presumes the possibility of hostile weapons. Having the guards unarmed simply puts the situation at the complete discretion of the hostile.
Two guards. Unarmed. Had they been armed (and trained and competent) he might have taken one, but not both. Instead many are dead and crippled. What the hell are people thinking? Unarmed security guards involved in weapons interdiction is an exercise in bureaucratic asininity, a public experssion of rhetorical nonsense.
Liberals kill.
These things only seem to happen in gun-free zones.
Well, the guards probably did a fine job of keeping dangerous drugs like Tylenol out of the school.
I grew up in Minnesota and lived near the Souix reservation...I have nothing but honor and respect for the American Indian...my prayers goes out to all effected by this tragedy....life on the "res" can be pretty difficult if not hopeless...
He dressed in black and was a loner. Hellloooooooo!!!
Not surprised to hear him contribute his typical spew.
I heard this morning that the kid was a whacked-out goth. Nothing to see here, I guess.
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