Posted on 12/11/2007 4:50:40 PM PST by charles m
LAS VEGAS - Six junior high or high school students were shot Tuesday after they got off a school bus, and two were critically hurt, police said.
Gunshots rang out in northeast Las Vegas just before 2 p.m., Officer Bill Cassell said.
Six young people were transported to area hospitals. Four had minor gunshot injuries and two were in critical condition, Cassell said.
At least two people are believed to have taken part in the shootings, he said. Police were not saying whether the shooting suspects were on foot or in a vehicle.
The shooting occurred less than a mile from two elementary schools, Woolley and Clyde Cox Elementary Schools. A Clark County School District official said the schools were not closed.
___
Associated Press writer Kathleen Hennessey contributed to this report.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Six junior high or high school students were shot Tuesday after they got off a school bus, and two were critically hurt, police said.
Gunshots rang out in northeast Las Vegas just before 2 p.m., Officer Bill Cassell said.
Six young people were transported to area hospitals. Four had minor gunshot injuries and two were in critical condition, Cassell said.
At least two people are believed to have taken part in the shootings, he said. Police were not saying whether the shooting suspects were on foot or in a vehicle.
I predict there will be another 10+ killed in the next 3 days. It is almost inevitable.
= = =
I have wondered.
IT does begin to appear that the puppet masters have lit off a more intense, more frequent level of chaos . . . quite according to their script of scaring folks into a tyrannical global government.
Shrillery is so eager for it she’s virtually salivating at the prospect even in public.
That . . . with deliberately crashing the dollar toward forcing the Amero . . .
life looks to get interesting the next 12 months plus.
Realize this . . . my reading and observations convince me that . . .
at the point of death . . . the pathetic buggers . . .
must experience each and every microsecond of pain they have caused in each and every life they have influenced by all their evil decisions and actions . . . and not merely from some perspective of a lofty bird . . .
but
AS THOUGH THEY WERE THE PERSON EXPERIENCING THE PAIN THEY HAVE CAUSED.
It may be that they will be reliving such pains for a very long time.
From the frying pan into the fire is an inadequate description of the journey they have launched out on.
But you do it with such belligerent panache.
= = =
There is that . . . kind of like an amusing precocious red headed little 2 year old boy who keeps stubbing his toe and falling down in his fiesty rants at the way things are.
. . . a beligerence and panache beyond his years . . . yet . . . very clumsy obtuseness along-side true reality . . . at the same time.
But then . . . I’m a biased observer. LOL.
remember, the good guys win in the end...
= = =
CERTAINLY. I read THE BOOK.
Actually, it was never really a contest.
satan’s rebellions have served a purpose of highlighting for all creation the consequences of rebellion vs the consequences of LIFE and TRUE FREEDOM IN OBEDIENCE TO LIFE.
He makes abundantly clear that death is not an overcoming, fulfilling, joyful habit.
Sounds like a neighborhooooooooooooooooooooooood
coming soon almost everywhere.
I honestly don’t think that any of this is the school’s fault. It didn’t happen on the campus as near as I can tell; it just happened near a school bus.
If it’s gang related, they would have got *hit* sometime sooner or later. They just happened to conveniently be in one place at one time, and likely no one was targeting all six of the kids. I’d guess it was just one or two and the rest were just collateral damage, so to speak- they sadly got caught in the crossfire.
Stomach wounds are bad. Those kids especially need our prayer.
Sorry, don't buy it. Having been a target of harassment through much of my school years, they caused me far more grief than anything my family threw at me.
The shooters at Colombine actually ran across kids they knew before the shootings and warned them to stay away from the campus. It sounds like the way they were treated at the school had a big impact on their behavior.
Many of the other kids who did shootings were outcasts or social misfits. In these cases, their *socialization* is what pushed them over the edge.
For the numbers of kids involved in school shootings at the public school level and the homeschool level, those misfit homeschoolers have a better track record. If being improperly socialized from being homeschooled were the issue or cause, then you could expect homoeschoolers to be far more disproportionately represented in going off the deep end and it's not happening. The facts do not bear that out.
Kids can be pretty ruthless (think Lord of the Flies) without proper adult supervision and that just is not feasible in the system as it exists today. It's simply a practical matter; not all the kids can be watched all the time, and they shouldn't be.
Sorry, guess I forgot my compassion for a moment. /s
If that is your definition of community, then I agree with your opinion.
Yes, Louisiana would be a good example where all public schools produce poor results, big city, rural and in between.
Shag..I think that's the whole point.
How will these children ever get help if we continue to pour money down the rat hole of a seriously flawed system?
How will we ever turn it around?
Prayer is fine but it won't tackle the central problem we have associated with the poor, unacceptable performance of today's big city (and some entire states) public school system.
A good man like George Bush has tried to turn the system around, poured countless amounts of resources and money into it and yet....
A private school that's a haven for bad kids and gangs??
This isn't a reform school ..is it?
I would really, really like to read about such a private school. Does it have a name??
LOL..terrific idea, and just in time for Christmas.
So?..Why is there a need for the personal insult?
The following is from the CNN Report which can be found at this site: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/12/bus.stop.shooting.ap/index.html
“Police said they believed the shooting was linked to a fight at Mojave earlier in the day. The brawl had been contained by school police, who arrested three male students, officials said.”
My rhetorical question still remains. Why on earth would rational parents send children into an environment that needs gang unit in their school? I will add another question. Why are parents sending children to a school that needs “school police”?
Answer:
1)Free babysitting is very addicting.
2) The parents are unable to ransom their children from the government indoctrination camp by paying private tuition and/or homeschooling.
Please remember, thebass8080, that government schools are compulsory for all those who can not privately or home school their children. Compulsion means police, court, and foster care action. If a parent resists the government school bureaucracy armed police will soon be at their door. If they resist, the armed police will arrest them. If they are sufficiently resistant, the police will kill them. ( Real bullets in those guns on the hip.)
Aren’t government indoctrination camps great? ( barf!)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I am scratching my head too wondering about this, too.
Hm?...We have a few private “schools” like that too in my state. I think all states do. They are very expensive and exclusive military style camps for kids with drug problems.
From the CNN report this particular school needs some “bashing”.
I will pray that parents and kids will soon find some way to get out of that horrible environment.
What we have is a flawed system working within a flawed society. Schools instituted a weak curriculum (Everyday Math, Look-Say Reading). That does seem to be turning around.
However, in society, we have also seen larger numbers of broken homes, more single parents, more permissive parenting, and an upswing in lawsuits.
All of these things combined have given us the results we see today. If you are of the opinion that public schools have NEVER been a good solution, that's fine. I don't agree. Schools used to teach the basics better. Society used to do a better job too.
But to take the problems we see today and insist that the whole problem is the flawed school system is ridiculous. Education will not be fixed by abolishing public schools because that will only put more pressure on the societal problems we have.
Kids who live in chaos, kids whose parents can't get things together enough to get them to a free breakfast on time aren't going to suddenly function well enough to seek out good educational opportunities. Heck, they won't even remove their kids from failing schools when given the opportunity to do so!
I don't feel hopeful for the future of our inner city schools and students. I wish I had a solution to their many problems. I don't.
Just a coincidence, right?
Everything is fine... The NEA knows what to do. Go back to sleep.
Sorry for the sarcasm, but rationalizations are not going to cut it. The public school system is controlled by liberal relativists intent on destroying every last moral absolute.
All this teacher-as-hero propaganda aside, if public school teachers really thought there was something wrong with the system, they would change it. The truth is, the ones that think there’s a problem go along with the program anyway because of.. well, some rationalization or another.
Isn’t the point of a teachers union to represent the teachers?
What a coincidence, right?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.