[Asphalt]

Sick

[L98Fiero]

Actually, he didn't start it, this guy did. Luke Woodham.

http://www.cnn.com/US/9806/12/school.shooting.verdict/

He got 2 life sentences and 7 20-year sentences.

[sinanju]

I really, really hope some anonymous someone presents young Master Johnson with the bill.

Having got that off my chest, let us not forget the accomplices here. The sensationalist media should be given due credit for their part in making schoolhouse massacres a grand american tradition.

[seacapn]

Seven years for five deaths? Is that how much a life is worth in Arkansas?

[caver]

This is wrong.

[Stone Mountain]

Jonesboro's sheriff, Jack McCann, told CNN yesterday that if Johnson returned to the town "we cannot guarantee his safety".

Johnson may be scum, but he is a free man under our system of laws. For a sheriff to make a veiled threat like this is inexcusable. Either uphold our laws or don't be a sheriff. What if he had said this same thing about a racial minority or a conservaitve politician who might move to the town?

[kcvl]

Middle school shooter Mitchell Johnson leaves Craighead County Courthouse in Jonesboro, Ark., in this file photo. By Rodney Freeman, Jonesboro Sun, via AP

Johnson at 13

In the boys' hometown, some wonder if justice has been done.

"How could anyone think (Johnson or Golden) would be rehabilitated?" Dale Haas, the former sheriff, said to the Associated Press.

[kcvl]

Gretchen Woodard still lives near the Westside Middle School, where her son, Mitchell Johnson, then 13, and another boy, Andrew Golden, then 11, staged a fire drill and opened fire on the children and teachers as they exited the building. Five people were killed and ten were injured.

Woodard told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that it wouldn't be wise for her son to move back to Arkansas. She says she can guarantee that he won't be. She hinted that Johnson will move at least a day's drive from Jonesboro and enroll in college. She says he is sorry for his part in the slayings and she hopes people will give him a chance to do good.

[fortunecookie]

he would enrol in college - possibly a seminary - at least a day's drive away.

What seminary would have him? Has he been rehabilitated? Can he be? Has he expressed any remorse? And is the mom trying to tell potential threateners that he will be too far to get to in a reasonable drive. Does his college or seminary and the inhabitants of that lucky town know he's coming? What a shame, those 4 girls and the teacher should be preparing for another school year. Instead, he gets to go free and the town still suffers because of his actions.

Mitchell Wright, whose wife Shannon was the teacher who was killed, said he has tried to explain Johnson's release to his son, who was two at the time of his mother's death. "He's told me, 'I don't think it's right he gets to go home to his momma and I only get to see my momma on videos'," Mr Wright said.

Out of the mouths of babes.

[OXENinFLA]

Brady Campaign: Jonesboro Killer, Leaving Prison Tomorrow, Will Be Free to Buy Firearms [Huh?]