4 killed in Georgia high school shooting | CNN
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Two students and two teachers were killed Wednesday in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, according to Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey.

School’s back kiddos, time to kevlar up!

    • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      60·
      2 months ago

      they went back to school on Aug 1st

      When I was working at a 7-11 a decade ago a friend of mine was killed in a murder suicide by her ex and they had the store open again within an hour of the crime scene cleanup crew leaving and all my boss told me was “you can take tomorrow off if you need to”.

      mfer died of a heart attack a few years ago and I fuckin hope it was the longest most excruciating heart attack death on record.

      • StalinStan [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        46·
        2 months ago

        It is wild those kids were nazis and they blamed it on quake.

        Quake might have had something yo do with it if the kids bunnyhopped to avoid return fire. However the cops at the time were still on dial up so their lag was so abd they couldn’t compete.

      • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        35·
        2 months ago

        then Sandy Hook

        I’m not trying to be weird or sound weird about it, but when the blood of white children can’t tip the scales against the gold of the gun lobby, it’s over. Roll credits.

        It’s so frustrating that we have done zero things other than give more cops more resources. That’s been our only thing we have done to protect kids and teachers. I hate it so much. It sucks so much such vulnerable group is just left to without protection in any sense of the world. We done nothing socially, infrastructure-ly, poltically, any other -ally i can think of other than give cops more money. I hate it.

        • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          31·
          2 months ago

          It’s so frustrating that we have done zero things other than give more cops more resources.

          Here’s a little secret, both parties were going to give them record funding year after year regardless! owl-wink And look how well that’s turned out, we still have school shootings but the cops are too busy shooting black teenagers in the back.

        • Pentacat [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          13·
          2 months ago

          The only time kids’ actions can force the government to do anything is when the kids protest against “Israel.” All other actions—even being murdered—just lead to more of the same.

        • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          when the blood of white children can’t tip the scales against the gold of the gun lobby, it’s over. Roll credits.

          Those white children were not part of rich and influential families. The scales will be pushed off the cliffs if these things started happening in the idyllic neighborhoods. Nothing is ever done because those who have the power to do something have nothing to fear.

    • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      28·
      2 months ago

      I hate how desensitized I am to these things.

      I hate how much my brain just ticks this as “this is just a thing now, don’t think about it much man”. It’s not a just a desensitization to me, I’m mad that it’s “normalized” to me. These kids, teachers, and staff should never EVER have to even think about this sort of thing. School is hard enough without the looming threat of real mortal death.

      kril-drained

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      18·
      2 months ago

      I wonder if there’s been an academic study of how covid changed what’s considered “newsworthy” by network news. For example imagine a pre-covid situation where X is the minimum number of people to be killed in a random mass shooting so it’s broadcast live on MSNBC. And X is ~3 or whatever. Is that still the case now that the public thinks covid is over and they’re massively desensitized to death?

      Is X the same or larger? My wild hunch is X is larger now.

      • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        15·
        2 months ago

        The sooner you abobdon that hope the less dissappointed you will be - parent who dropped their third grader off for the first time this morning

        Best you can hope for is you get the dumbest cop in the county and hope it’s not your daughter they try to pursue a relationship with

    • gueybana [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      2 months ago

      I don’t know why but I feel like I care more and more about each one that happens

      I used to not really gaf but reality is setting in that this is a real thing, that the kids are not alright

      • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        17·
        2 months ago

        Yea people love to talk shit about the youngest generation but they’re unironically more heroic than your average Vietnam vet just for being willing to go to school everyday and be willing sacrifices to America’s gun culture.

        If my daughter told me she wasn’t fucking going to school because nobody was doing anything to prevent her from being target practice I’d have a hard time coming up with a rebuttal.

  • StalinStan [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    34·
    2 months ago

    I want to see more people joke about trump understanding the youth of today because he too has been shot at. Cause like, this just sucks too much to emotionally enguage with earnestly

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    5m ago

    School resource officer engaged with shooter and took him into custody, sheriff says

    The resource officer at Apalachee High School engaged with the shooter and took him into custody, Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith told reporters.

    “Obviously the shooter was armed and our school resource officer engaged him and the shooter quickly realized that if he did not give up, that it would end with an OIS — an Officer Involved Shooting. He gave up, got on the ground and the deputy took him into custody,” Smith said.

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    Edit 1

    MSNBC just said he’s 14 and he was a student at the school.

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    Edit 2

    A white cop talking to the media said “Hate will not prevail in our community.” I don’t know the context or who he was. But I wonder if the shooter was a minority.

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    Edit 3

    Apalachee High School shooting: Officials identify 14-year-old student as suspect in Georgia school shooting that left 4 dead | CNN

    Winder, Georgia CNN — The 14-year-old suspect in the fatal mass shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school has been identified as Colt Gray, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said at an afternoon news conference.

    The suspect is a student at the school who will be charged with murder and will be handled as an adult as he moves through the criminal justice system, Hosey and Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith added.

    • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      2 months ago

      Doing an image search for “Colt Gray” gives results for guns and nothing else (for now). Nominative determinism at work amerikkka-clap

    • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      will be handled as an adult

      again while the whole “tried as an adult” thing. Used so often you wonder what actually doesn’t get someone tried as an adult.

  • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    Feels ghoulish to even talk about an ongoing tragedy this way, but I do find it curious that the shooter surrendered. Seems like that rarely happens in these situations.