Posted on 01/09/2011 1:36:11 PM PST by kristinn
In early June, Lynda Sorenson, 52, had gone back to community college in Tucson in hopes of getting back on the job market. One of her classes was a basic algebra class--and one of her classmates was Jared Loughner, now identified by authorities as the man who killed six people and critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in a shooting rampage Saturday. Sorenson's emails to friends from last summer, provided to the Washington Post, reveal her growing alarm at Loughner's strange and disruptive behavior in class.
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From June 14: "We have a mentally unstable person in the class that scares the living crap out of me. He is one of those whose picture you see on the news, after he has come into class with an automatic weapon. Everyone interviewed would say, Yeah, he was in my math class and he was really weird. I sit by the door with my purse handy. If you see it on the news one night, know that I got out fast..."
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There are many more just like him out there.
I wonder if Lynda Sorenson’s e-mails put her in legal jeopardy at this point. They could be seen as libelous.
A story today said that one of his professors had complained to the community college administrators about him, but that at first the college wouldn’t do anything. I suppose the school was worried about being sued than the safety of its students. Not blaming the college, but this is what we are these days. We have such a litigous society, people are afraid to say or do anything for fear of being sued.
Creepy. But for every “weird” kid who does something violent, there are a lot more who are just, well, weird. Is there any way to predict things like this?
So, the *disruptor* was removed the class after the third or fourth week... no follow-up, of course.
So she knew he was capable of such an act and she did nothing?
Further proof our public school and the Dept. of Education is failing us?
Really? The kids is behaving so bizarrely that it obvious to COMPLETE STRANGERS that he is dangerous and mentally unstable and NO one does a thing?
(Well the school did kick him out with a letter to seek mental help)
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Years ago you used to be able to commit the mentally disturbed and they could get help and many recovered. But then the libreals thought it wasn't "fair" and look at what we have.
If he was a homosexual, I guarantee you, someone would have been identified as the one the pushed him over. AMYTHING said against homosexuality is considered BULLYING.
Hardly libelous.
Nothing in her e-mails demonstrates that she had anything other than good instincts.
Nope!
YOu can’t predict when a nutcase has reached his/her limit.
Yet the Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik allowed him to obtain a Glock.
The Community College saw the risk.
The parents deserve most of the responsibility since he was living with them.
“Years ago you used to be able to commit the mentally disturbed and they could get help and many recovered. But then the libreals thought it wasn’t “fair” and look at what we have. “
Reagan emptied the mental institutions for the most part. It used to be WAY too easy to get someone involuntarily remanded to an institution. Maybe it’s WAY to hard now.
I agree.
She didn't identify him by name, I see.
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